Leave No One Behind: Taking Action for Transformational Change on Women’s Economic Empowerment The Second Report of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment Lead Author: Cindy Drakeman

UNHLP Overview Convened by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in March, 2016 20 members + deputies drawn from Governments, NGOs, Multilateral Institutions, the Private Sector, and Unions Chaired by H.E. Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, President of Costa Rica, and Simona Scarpaleggia, CEO of Ikea Switzerland Produced two reports and numerous supporting documents Leverage the spheres of influence of the High-Level Panel. Inform and inspire action by Government, Business and Civil Society to address constraints and create opportunities for Women's Economic Empowerment.

UNHLP Panel Members

UNHLP Outputs – Setting the Agenda First Report: Leave No One Behind: A Call to Action for Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment (September 2016) Second Report: Leave No One Behind: Taking Action for Transformational Change on Women’s Economic Empowerment (March 2017) Tool Kits and Working Group papers for each of the seven drivers of women’s economic empowerment (forthcoming 2017) Discussion Papers and Commissioned Research (2016) www.womenseconomicempowerment.org

Seven Drivers of Women’s Economic Empowerment

Creating an Enabling Environment

Second Report Recommendations

Second Report Recommendations

The W20 2017 Communique to the G20 1. Integrate gender analysis and gender budgeting into all its agendas, growth strategy and policy frameworks 2. Advance member state policies toward the ‘25 by 25’ target set by the G20 to reduce the gender labour participation gap. 3. Support women entrepreneurs and female cooperatives to start up and scale their operations, build capacity, ensure their equal access to finance and markets, and accord them their fair share in global value chains. 4. Swiftly bridge the widening digital gender divide and… set up a five year plan for gender-equal digital transformation. 5. Ensure W20 access to the G20 negotiation tracks and G20 Sherpa meetings.

Next steps: Turning Ideas into action Where does the wider WEE community fit into these efforts? SEEP WEE Forum 2017 A Global Community Consensus on WEE How can we, as a community, use the UNHLP and W20 documents/efforts to reinforce and amplify each other’s efforts?