Cities Alliance Annual Report 2018

Introducing a gender marker
system to ensure a gender
component in activities
Based on the Cities Alliance Strategic
Plan (2018-2021) as well as that
of UNOPS, the Secretariat further
reviewed its internal procedures to
ensure that it responds to the need to
address gender and diversity across
the organisation, in contribution
towards the UN 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.
The Cities Alliance is committed to
assuring gender parity quotas, such as
in recruitment procedures and review
panels. An important introduction
in 2018 was the incorporation of a
gender marker system into the Cities
Alliance Secretariat’s grantmaking
procedures. The system ensures a set
of common principles and standards to
track and report on impacts for gender
equality and the empowerment of
women and girls in all Cities Alliancefunded
operations.
The gender marker system is helping
Cities Alliance reach its corporate
objective that 90 per cent of all grants
make a significant contribution to
advancing gender equality and/ or the
empowerment of girls and women.
Cities Alliance interns express support for the #SheisWe campaign at the
2018 European Development Days.
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