Resolution 5 – Women and leadership in the humanitarian action of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Summary
The resolution aims to promote the role of women in decision-making, including in governing bodies and management positions in all components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement). The Movement components, alongside governments, undertake to focus on improving humanitarian impact without discrimination and exclusion by supporting more women in becoming leaders. This includes concrete and systematic initiatives to support, promote and advocate for women’s full, equal and meaningful participation, leadership and decision-making in international humanitarian forums at the global, regional and national levels, focusing on the following.
For Movement components:
For Movement components and States:
The 33rd International Conference adopted the resolution “Women and leadership in the humanitarian action of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement”, considering that women in are critical to ensuring effective and successful humanitarian outcomes. Women’s inclusion and leadership should therefore be further promoted. Women are still greatly underrepresented in leadership roles throughout the humanitarian sector.
For Movement components:
- Increase the representation of women at all decision-making levels
- Achieve gender parity at all levels by 2030, and develop an approach to track sex-disaggregated information to monitor and ensure progress.
- Actively identify women leaders and build up a pipeline, developing the capacities of women as future leaders.
For Movement components and States:
- Invest in research and building evidence
The 33rd International Conference adopted the resolution “Women and leadership in the humanitarian action of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement”, considering that women in are critical to ensuring effective and successful humanitarian outcomes. Women’s inclusion and leadership should therefore be further promoted. Women are still greatly underrepresented in leadership roles throughout the humanitarian sector.
Adopted resolution at the 33rd International Conference
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Resolution 5 – Women and leadership in the humanitarian action of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- Adopted resolution (33IC/19/R5)
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Related documents
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Documents
- Blog article ” From Talk to Action: Making Strides on the Women and Leadership Resolution”
- “How diverse leadership shaped responses to COVID-19 within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement” (2021) – a report by the Humanitarian Advisory Group in collaboration with GLOW Red, the ICRC and the IFRC.
- Resolution 12 of the 2017 Council of Delegates: “Reinforcing gender equality and equal opportunities in the leadership and work of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement”
- ICRC article on International Women’s Day 2020: Women in leadership
- IFRC Gender and Diversity Policy
- “Manila Declaration”, Red Cross Red Crescent commits to women’s leadership at Asia Pacific and Middle East humanitarian summit in 2018
- “Buenos Aires Commitment” 21st Red Cross Interamerican Conference in 2019
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