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Real Relief
Real Relief has successfully transferred the technology of SafepadTM from India to Bangladesh
in 2019. Now producing SafepadTM in two locations.

In 2020 Real Relief will start local production of SafepadTM in 3 African countries.

Safepad® - a unique re-usable sanitary pad with a special antimicrobial treatment.

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Mary Kay Inc.

”Mary Kay Inc. pledges to clearly identify the challenges to address women’s rights to specific
issues and develop a 10-year action plan to achieve gender equality in entrepreneurship. We will
communicate an action plan by November 2020”.

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Patricia Pelton – President, World YMCA

“My pledge is to advance the cause of Youth Empowerment with a focus on inclusion and equity
for all in my role as President, World YMCA”

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Yurdana Burgoa Valtierra– Basque Government
Basque Government wants to take part assuming an action on its Budget for 2021. This year,
our budget guidelines for 2020 are the following:

•   Vision beyond the GDP                            • Reduce the gender, salary, social, generation
                                                       and digital gap.
•   Special relevance of the gender focus.
                                                     • Priority on actions to promote fairness.
•   Commitment to inclusive growth, which flows
    according to criteria of social cohesion and     • Excellence and inclusion in education.
    environmental sustainability, placing priority
    on actions that promote the economy as the       • Focus on youth.
    lever of prosperity.
                                                     • Fight against climate change and promotion
•   Economic development and employability of          of sustainable mobility.
    persons.

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Yurdana Burgoa Valtierra– Basque Government
Our Budget proposal for 2020 is an amount of 11.774M/€, with two aspects to highlight:

1. GENDER FOCUS: the Ministry of Treasury and Economy has received almost 100 reports
   from the Government ministries, autonomous bodies and consortiums, detailing actions
   aimed at reducing the pay gap, combatting violence against women and working in favour of
   equality. Basque Health System Entity and Basque Television have also submitted this
   information for the first time. From these, it can be inferred that 10.5% of the budget analysed
   incorporates the gender perspective to planning for 2020. (1,236M/€).

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Yurdana Burgoa Valtierra– Basque Government
2. SUSTAINABLE EUSKADI: a common challenge of the Basque Government. In line with the
Climate Emergency Declaration approved on 30th July, an endeavour has been made to
quantify the economic effort made among the different ministries in order to advance with action
against climate change, achieving a global figure standing at around 540M/€.

The 77.5% is dedicated to Social Expenditure: Health, Education and Social Policies. Almost 8
out of every 10 euros go to social expenditure.

BASQUE GOVERNMENT´S PLEGDE IS TO REACH THAT 15% OF THE BUDGET
INCORPORATES THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE TO PLANNING FOR 2021.

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Viviane Teitelbaum – Member & Vice President of Parliament,
President Observatory Of Violence Against Women
“Violence against women and abuse is harmful physically (and may cause death) or
psychologically and is therefore a major obstacle to equality between men and women and to
the development of a healthy, democratic society.

One women out of 3 in the world is victim of violence. It has to stop.

More specifically, sexual violence or violence from a partner or an ex-partner is also an obstacle
to the possibility for women to contribute to society and enjoy work–life balance in a state of
equilibrium between personal life, professional life, and family life” (...)

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Viviane Teitelbaum – Member & Vice President of Parliament,
President Observatory Of Violence Against Women

“Post marital violence and in particular the so-called “parental alienation syndrome” puts women
at risk physically and morally and targets them through their children.

As a member of Parliament, and president of the feminist observatory of Violence against
women, I pledge to promote the voice of women victims of violence from a partner and post
marital violence, make their suffering visible and help women fight it, through support groups,
research and data analysis”.

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Allison Dunne – EY

“I pledge to become more aware of my own biases and work to eliminate them
#womenfastforward”.

Time frame: to be fully realised by November 2020

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Puleng Letsie – African Coalition for Menstrual Health
Management
“I pledge to lead and mobilise members of the African Coalition for Menstrual Health
Management (ACMHM) and the global menstrual health and hygiene collective (MHH Collective)
to mobilise at least 10 governments to address and integrate menstrual health within sexual and
reproductive health (SRHR), public health and multisectoral policies, strategies and frameworks,
as part of Universal Health Coverage by November 2020”

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Chong Eng – Penang State Minister (EXCO) for Women &
Family Development, Gender Inclusiveness & Religions Other
Than Islam
“My pledge is to organise an International Summit on Women & Men - Work, Life & Family
Balance, and to be officiated by the Queen of Malaysia by the year 2022 celebration for
International Women’s Day (IWD).

In 2018, my office organised the first state-level IWD & again in 2019, it will be an annual event
in the State of Penang, Malaysia.

Now, it is time to take it to a higher level to bring change on this theme:
Women & Men - Work, Life & Family Balance”.

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Camelia Ilie Cardoza, Roberto Artavia, Guillermo Cardoza,
Jaime Garcia
“We commit to continue to disseminate Social Progress Index (SPI) and Women Progress Index
(WPI) in Latin America, making it a useful tool and policy driver for: national, regional, and local
governments productive sectors and institutions women, men, and youths.

We also commit to share our growing experience, knowledge, and processes in this area with
the SPI and WPI leaders throughout the world.

Organizations: SPI, Viva Trust e INCAE Business School

Measurable Actions and desired outcome: Social Progress Index and Women Progress Index

Time frame: updated World and Latam ranking of both SPI and WPI in Oct/Nov 2020 (within one
year).

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Karina Radchenko – Young Delegate of Ukraine to the Council
of Europe
“To create an educational platform for women and girls, who are the victims of war and internally
displaced, aimed at increasing their political and economic participation, encouraging social
entrepreneurship and peace-keeping by 2021. The project will initially take place in the Luhansk
and Donetsk regions of Ukraine affected by war. The scope of training will include psychological
support, political studies, economics, business, design, and so on. The platform alumni will be
encouraged to launch their own projects to create multiple positive effects. The participants will
get the status of ambassadors of peace, women leadership, and human rights. At least 4 UN
SDGs, such as Gender Equality; Reducing Inequality; Quality Education; Peace, Security,
Strong Institutions, are targeted”.

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100 Words for Peace
“To collect opinions of people from at least 100 countries by November 2020 followed by
analysis and developing the comprehensive Peaceful Plan based on the similarities in the stated
ideas to facilitate 16th UN SDG Peace, Security, Strong Institutions”.

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H.E Dalal Jassim Al Zayed – Member of Shura Council,
Kingdom of Bahrein
”To put in place legislations that prohibit unequal remuneration of women and men and work to
enhance women’s political participation”.

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Christy Tanner, EVP & GM – CBS News Digital, CBSN
“CBSN, the 24/7 global streaming news service of CBS News, pledges that during the 2020
presidential campaign, on more than 32 major election-related news coverage days, more than
50% of guests will be intersectional”.

Timeframe: November 2019-November 2020

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Dr. Felicia Knaul - Director, University of Miami Institute for
Advanced Study of the Americas
“As a conversationist at the 2019 Reykjavik Global Forum, I, Felicia Knaul, pledge to create
positive measurable change in the spirit of “power, together” by chairing the Lancet commission
on Gender-Based Violence based at the University of Miami. This Commission embodies the
spirit of power-together: too many women are directly affected by gender-based violence and the
entire world is impacted, yet the voices of most victims and survivors are silenced.
This Commission will harness the global power of academics and leaders who will demonstrate
that GBV is a pandemic and a health, economic and equity imperative and put forward new
evidence on how it can be curtailed.

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Dr. Felicia Knaul - Director, University of Miami Institute for
Advanced Study of the Americas

“Between 2020 and 2022 the Commission will produce key tools for action including: a cost-of-
inaction analysis; a global scoping and review of salient policies, programs, projects and legal
frameworks; extended cost-effectiveness analysis; and, an inter-sectoral, global, and national
health system analysis focused on health system strengthening for Universal Health Coverage
and the SDGs. The Lancet reaches millions of readers every week, providing a unique platform
with global reach for sharing knowledge that is key to ending GBV”

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative
Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War

About the campaign:

Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War is a global campaign to educate, organize
and advocate for a Korea peace agreement by 2020.

By the end of 2020, the campaign aims to have made significant headway toward:

•   A peace-building process including a formal ending of the Korean War, a Korea peace
    treaty or agreement, and normalized relations among the US, North Korea, and South Korea.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative

•   Tangible demilitarization including removal of landmines, reduction of bases/troops, and
    steps toward denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.

•   Women’s leadership and gender-based analysis in the Korea peace process.

•   Lifting of broad-based sanctions against North Korea, particularly those impacting
    humanitarian conditions.

•   Redefining security from national security based on war and militarism to a feminist
    understanding of security centered on basic human needs and ecological sustainability.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative
Key points:

•   Our campaign brings a gender perspective to the ongoing Korean conflict by
    highlighting the ways that the ongoing Korean War disproportionately impacts women’s lives.

•   Our campaign strengthens the leadership of and builds relationships among women
    peacemakers: In December 2018, Korea Peace Now! organized a historic meeting of
    women peacemakers from Northeast Asia — North Korea, South Korea, China, and Japan —
    as well as Russia, Canada, and the US to discuss women’s leadership in building peace in
    Korea and in the region.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative
Our campaign advocates for the advancement of the rights and status of women:
Our campaign recently commissioned a report, The Human Costs and Gendered Impact of
Sanctions on North Korea, which found that sanctions are having adverse consequences for the
humanitarian situation and economic development of the country, particularly harming women.

Economically, they hamper women’s economic security by targeting sectors in which most
workers are women, especially the textile sector.

Socially, they destabilize society in a way in which global studies show lead to increased gender
discrimination.

Physically, they put women’s well-being, health, and safety at risk as they struggle to ensure
enough sustenance and health care for their families and themselves.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative
The report’s authors recommend that we further study these impacts and take immediate actions
to mitigate the adverse consequences.

Our campaign calls for women’s participation in the Korea peace process:

Research shows that the participation of civil society groups, including women’s organizations,
makes a peace agreement more likely to succeed and to last.

Including women’s equal participation and meaningful involvement in peace processes is a
commitment of both UN Security Council Resolution 1325 of 2000 and the U.S.’s Women,
Peace and Security Act of 2017, which recognize the crucial role that women play in conflict
prevention, management, and resolution.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative

As of September 2019, 82 countries — including the U.S. and South Korea — have adopted
National Action Plans for the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

Despite this, there are very few women involved in the official Korea peace process.

It’s time to declare an end to the Korean War and replace the Armistice with a peace
agreement, which would take the threat of war off the table and improve the security of Koreans,
Americans, and the world.
A peace agreement would be a crucial step toward demilitarizing and denuclearizing the Korean
Peninsula.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative
We must lift sanctions that harm the North Korean civilian population, especially those
impacting humanitarian conditions.
Sanctions in their current form may be contrary to international law, in particular humanitarian
and human rights norms.

Sanctions are ineffective as a tool to achieve goals related to human rights and denuclearization.

We must peacefully resolve the conflict underlying the sanctions regime: end the Korean War
and work toward a peace agreement.

For the Korea peace process to be successful, women must have a seat at the table.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative
Our achievements so far:

Building political space for peace with North Korea

Earlier this year, we brought South Korean women Parliamentarians to engage with members of
U.S. Congress and foreign policy experts in DC on the urgent need to end the Korean War.
In the US, Korea Peace Now! campaign partner Women Cross DMZ worked with Rep. Ro
Khanna (D-Calif.) to draft and introduce H. Res. 152, a Congressional resolution to end the
Korean War with a peace agreement. So far, 40 members of Congress — including
progressive members such as Barbara Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ilhan Omar — have
co-sponsored it.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative
We have established official channels of communication with all three governments: US, North
Korea and South Korea. In June 2019, we met with Stephen Biegun, US Special Representative
for North Korea, as well as Moon Chung-in, Special Advisor to South Korean President Moon
Jae-in for Foreign Affairs and National Security, on ways to advance the peace process.

Grassroots organizing + coalition building

There are 10 Korea Peace Now! grassroots chapters across the U.S.: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago,
Denver, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay Area, and
Washington, DC.

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Jody Williams – Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative
In October 2019, we organized a national call-in day for Korea peace with other peace. We
generated 576 calls and 3,957 emails to members of U.S. Congress.

Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. It’s crucial that we end the
war and work toward a peace agreement in an inclusive process that considers the rights and
status of women.

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Icelandair
“To become an industry leader in responsibility”

ICELANDAIR‘S STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS IN RESPONSIBILITY

     Promoting            Generating jobs,             Driving       Reducing CO2
  gender equality            supporting              responsible     emissions from
  in management           tourism and the           supply chain       operations in
   and in the air.            Icelandic            and sustainable    the air and on
                             economy.               procurement.        the ground.

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Icelandair

GENDER EQUALITY GOALS BY 2025

•   Never less than 40% of either gender in management positions

•   Increase the number of female pilots by 25%

•   Increase the number of male cabin crew by 25%

•   Increase the number of female aircraft maintenance technicians by 25%

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Icelandair

STRATEGY AND ACTIONS

•   Ensure equal opportunities for everyone by decreasing the impact of gender stereotypes
    within the aviation industry, for example through marketing and communications materials.

•   Promote equal opportunities in the aviation industry for girls and boys in schools.

•   Discussions and focus groups with pilots, cabin crew and aircraft maintenance technicians to
    create an action plan on promoting these roles for the gender that is underrepresented.

•   Procedures on shoes and grooming will be unified between genders

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FAIR PAY INNOVATION LAB
The Fair Pay Innovation Lab pledges for the coming year:

•   To raise awareness on fair pay and pay equity as well as the implementation of the principles
    within companies by building and establishing a central contact point for companies;

•   To spread the word on pay equity in presentations, lectures and talks in Germany and
    abroad;

•   To collect and discuss best practices on how to effectively implement fair pay in HR- and
    Compensation & Benefits-policies in the Fair Pay Management Circles and through
    publications; to create space for dialogue for companies in Fair Pay Management Circles,
    and further, to hold the first Fair Pay Management Circle outside of Germany before
    November 2020;

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FAIR PAY INNOVATION LAB
•   To support companies and organizations in the practical implementation of pay equity with
    concrete measures, such as the FPI Tool Compass, a search engine for companies for
    finding a suitable tool to analyze wage structures, and further, to release an international
    version of the FPI Tool Compass by July 2020;

•   To organize the 3rd Fair Pay Global Forum as a side event during the Commission on the
    Status of Women in March 2020 in New York;

•   To foster the international dialogue on fair pay as part of the German presidency in the
    European Council

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FAIR PAY INNOVATION LAB

•   To continue with our ambitious HR policy within our own company, including full wage
    transparency, flexible working arrangement and work from different locations.

To reach our ultimate goal of fair pay for everyone, the Fair Pay Innovation Lab cannot act as a
single entity but relies on the support of others – from governments, to companies, and NGOs.
Therefore, we invite representatives of the private sectors, politics and civil society to join in and
commit themselves to taking effective measures to achieve fair pay for everyone.

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Deloitte

“Deloitte leaders are committing to sponsoring at least one woman into leadership to create a
wave of sponsorship throughout our organization. This is part of Deloitte’s global initiative to
increase the representation and retention of women and other underrepresented groups at
leadership levels.”

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Chisomo Nguluwe – Ottawa’s Homeless Period

“My pledge is to do my part in creating a better environment for women. I pledge to lift women up
when they are at their lowest and to praise them when they excel.

I pledge to fight the systems designed to suppress our power as women. My knowledge and
strength are the tools I have and I pledge to use them to help others. I hope my whisper can lend
a voice to other women. I pledge to not let my gender confine me but empower me to break the
norms people have tied to my gender.

I pledge to fiercely advocate for women's advancement because I believe in gender equality”.

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Halimah Sanda – ROMZAIB Foundation

“On behalf of ROMZAIB Foundation, I pledge that in the year 2020, the foundation will aim to
empower 100 women and girls through skill-building in production of reusable sanitary pads, and
educate 500 adolescent school girls on menstrual Hygiene and management, in rural, hard-to-
reach communities in Kano as well as advocate with the Kano State Ministry of education to
include menstrual Hygiene and management in school curriculum across Kano.

We hope that by doing that, we will play a major role in empowering women, ending Period
Poverty, increasing access to sanitary pads and improving knowledge on menstrual Hygiene
within the selected communities”.

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Mara Gubuan – Founder of Equality League

“As founder of Equality League, I pledge to create bridges between sport and other sectors for
whom inequity in pay, opportunities, and investment all resonate. The collective effort builds on
our open letter sent to US Soccer and FIFA presidents dated July 15, 2019. Together, through
the #WeAreEQL campaign, we will support the US Women’s National Soccer Team and women
in football worldwide to achieve equality. Our success in and through sport will serve as model
and inspiration to other sectors.

Our efforts with the USWNT are directed at winning their gender discrimination lawsuit
scheduled to reach court in May 2020. Among our collective action will be to leverage and
amplify media stories that create external pressure leading to internal change (…)

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Mara Gubuan – Founder of Equality League

Worldwide, Australia recently announced the equal pay of its women and men’s football teams -
the Matildas and Socceroos. We use this as a template for gender equality in football from
grassroots to elite levels.

Our campaign centers the voices and visibility of affected individuals - that is, athletes standing
up and speaking for themselves.

Equality League advances women’s rights through sport by changing laws and cultural practices
to improve access, equality, and safety for women and girls worldwide. Athletes can be highly
influential through their connections to key decision-makers and media platforms.

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Mara Gubuan – Founder of Equality League

“We develop athletes as advocates through training in communications, advocacy, human rights,
network and coalition building, and personal coaching from our expert board members.

Gender equality is being achieved in sport and we endeavour to engage members of the
Reykjavik Global Forum to build upon the momentum of the Women’s World Cup - won by the
USWNT who receive only a fraction of the salary and benefits of their USMNT counterparts. A
win in sport will inspire action and progress in other sectors.

Our efforts with the #WeAreEQL campaign will culminate with the Tokyo Olympics and
Paralympics. We already have the commitment of Olympic athletes to participate and amplify
this collective action for maximum impact”.

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Clare Barber – MHK , Jane Poole-Wilson – MLC, Tynwald, Isle of
Man

“The substantive provisions of our Equality Act will all be in effect by 1 January 2020. We now
wish to work on embedding equality in practice. We pledge to scope the work involved, drawing
on the experiences at the Reykjavik Global Forum of Women Leaders, and develop an initial
strategy to support delivery - the strategy to be ready by November 2020”.

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Be Girl

“Understanding menstruation at an early age prepares young people to make family planning
decisions. Be Girl commits to reaching 20,000 adolescents by the end of 2020 with our age-
appropriate SmartCycle menstruation education workshops”

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Oana Toiu – Former State Secretary of Romania

“We just passed more than 1000 new women that joined politics in the last year in Bucharest. I
pledge to bring 10.000 new women to politics nation wide and 1000 new women candidates, that
care and act for their communities, for local and legislative elections in 2020”.

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Eva Maria Carney - The Kwek Society

“I, Eva Marie Carney, as the Founder and President of The Kwek Society Pledge to expand the
reach of our efforts to #endperiodpoverty among Native students — we currently serve students
in 4 US states and by November 2020 we will be a broader-based international organization by
partnering with programs serving First Nations students in the Canadian provinces and by
serving Native students in additional US states”

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Eva Maria Carney - The Kwek Society

“In 2020 we undertake to expand our reach to more indigenous students — providing period
supplies beyond the US borders to other communities in the Americas and to students living in
US states beyond the four in which we have a presence currently (New Mexico, Oklahoma,
South Dakota and Wyoming)”.

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Equal Measures

“Equal Measures 2030 pledges in the next 12 months to equip thousands of gender equality
champions from local to global levels with the SDG Gender Index and other data tools to drive
the achievement of the SDGs for girls and women”

Visit data.em2030.org to see more

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Olga Kefalogianni – Member of Parliament, Hellenic Parliament
of Greece

“Pledge to encourage, help orient and actively support a small group of young women refugees
to critically adapt to their new environment by developing their knowledge and critical
understanding of the civic dimensions of life in a Western democracy. A better understanding of
the features and the opportunities available through civic education will enrich the refugees'
experience of and possibilities to develop and prosper in our societies.

Draft timetable: identifying the potential members and forming the group by the end of January
2020, immediately afterwards commencing civic education in both conceptual / theoretical and
empirical / practical dimensions, organizing appropriate visits to institutions by July 2010,
launching a more advanced level of civic education for those of the members who wish to
continue by September 2020.

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Olga Kefalogianni – Member of Parliament, Hellenic Parliament
of Greece

“This pledge - which constitutes for me a personal challenge - will be partly realised by
November 2020 in the sense that the group will have been identified, its members will have been
given appropriate educational and infrastructural support and they will be well on their way to
familiarizing themselves with the institutions, the system of human and individual rights and the
framework of civic life”.

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The Case For Her
“Half the world menstruates for a significant part of their lives. 300 million people menstruate on
any given day. Menstruation is an entirely normal biological process and a sign of good health—
and yet it is still shrouded in myths and misconceptions. As a result, menstruating women and
girls are often excluded and stigmatized.

Despite being an integral part of women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights
(SRHR), menstruation is largely overlooked by traditional development programming and
funding. Menstrual health is critical for the fulfilment of women and girls’ rights and the
realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Case For Her and our partners call for increased and improved investment in menstrual
health by bringing menstrual health into the global health agenda, as a crucial component
of            SRHR           policy,          programming           and           funding”.

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The Case For Her
To achieve this, The Case For Her pledges to ignite and continue to build a
comprehensive, evidence-based Menstrual Health agenda and movement.

Now through December 2020, The Case For Her will:

1. Grow a strong evidence base for menstrual health and SRHR integration, including
   working with technical partners to develop expertise and metrics to ensure the
   highest possible impact.

2. Engage key stakeholders and advocates to catalyse the prioritization of Menstrual
   Health on the global health agenda. This includes nurturing and supporting collaborations
   and alliances such as the Global Menstrual Health and Hygiene Collective.

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The Case For Her

3. Now through July 2020, build pressure on donors to commit to an investment in
Menstrual Health, including work with key partners of the Global Menstrual Health and Hygiene
Collective to host a Donors’ Summit on Menstrual Health on July 7-10, 2020, with the goal
of securing donor commitments for MH.

We invite our partners in the Menstrual Health space to join in our commitment and look forward
to working with you to take this forward”.

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Plan International

“Plan International commits to promote the leadership of adolescent girls and young women as
key partners in all decisions that concern them. In particular, Plan International will support, by
November 2020, the participation of young women aged 15-24 in 5 delegations and
consultations in intergovernmental processes and forums, including at:

The sixty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York from 9 to 20
March 2020.

The Generation Equality Forums (in Mexico on 7-8 May 2020 and France on 7-10 July 2020
The 74th Session of the UN General Assembly from 15 to 30 September 2020
The 2020 session of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) from 7
to 16 July 2020”

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Shobhini Mujerji – J-Pal South Asia

"I pledge to build staff capacity and skills in gender analysis and gender sensitive external
communications, strengthen the gender lens in the research process, and affirm our commitment
to gender equality in the workplace.”

J-PAL will achieve these goals through developing and delivering of organisational best
practices, resources, and gender-lens training for all of our staff, in order to inculcate a culture of
gender sensitivity in all aspects of our work - research, policy advocacy, and capacity building -
as well as our conduct in the workplace."

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Cocoro Advanced Lingerie for Periods

“From January 1st to November 30th Cocoro Advanced Lingerie for Periods will dedicate a
journey of all our team members to invest their capabilities in a social cause.

The outcome will be the participation of our members on different actions related to social
causes, for example, volunteering, training, etc.

We will measure it by having a list of all the activities we will be involved”.

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Huru International

Huru International will pledge to provide 15,000 girls with our reusable menstrual pads along
with education on menstrual health and sexual reproductive health in order to help vulnerable
girls remain in school and educated.

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Marni Sommer – Grow and Know

“To truly transform society, girls and boys must feel empowered and confident about their
changing bodies during puberty, and learn to support and respect each other, without
violence. Transformative change can happen as gender norms intensify during the transition
from early adolescence into young adulthood.

Grow and Know pledges to reach an additional 30,000 girls and boys with puberty books in low-
income countries, and support the development of more inclusive (Braille) approaches for the
visually impaired in one country”.

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Sophia Grinvalds - AFRIpads

“AFRIpads understands that advancing menstrual health requires more than just
products. AFRIpads commits to support our partners and customers to deliver holistic menstrual
health programming, by accompanying our reusable sanitary pads with a training of trainers and
a suite of free education materials including our menstrual health curriculum, our period story
book and data collection tool. By November 2020, AFRIpads pledges to reach over 100,000
girls and women with our integrated menstrual health support”.

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Celeste Mergens – Days For Girls International

“Days for Girls pledges to turn periods into pathways for women, girls and communities around
the globe. We work for global gender equity as a vital and powerful lever for peace and
prosperity for our planet”

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Natalie Deacon – Avon

“By November 2020:

•   Kick-start more entrepreneurs through our business model and network
•   Increase the training we offer to our 5m+ reps
•   Increase online adoption across our network
•   Undertake programmes to raise funds and awareness of the issue of violence against women
    and girls
•   Create a scheme to give grants to female innovators and/or scholarships

Long term: To be part of a coalition and community that builds a better world for women – and
for everyone”.

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Carla Aerts – Tmrw Institute

“I pledge that I will strive for empowerment of those girls who have less, little or no access to
education, but who with the help of ethical use of technology in learning and learning
augmentation can find new doors opened to them”.

CONVERSATIONISTS PLEDGE

Larissa Kennedy – Plan International Global Hub

“Use my platform to amplify the voices of girls and young women working to end gender-based
violence within a generation” and, in doing so, I intend to make a mini documentary about youth
activism, and centring young women, working to end FGM”.