1. 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

2. 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.

3. UNHLP Panel Members

4. 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 )
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)

5. Seven Drivers of Women’s Economic Empowerment

6. Creating an Enabling Environment

7. Second Report Recommendations

8. Second Report Recommendations

9. 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.

10. 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?