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Alongside the High Impact Initiatives, Generation Equality is included in the UN Secretary General¡¯s approach to SDG implementation acceleration. The Midpoint will be anchored in the pre-SDG summit programming that heads of state and governments from around the world will attend to renew and accelerate SDG implementation. The Midpoint Moment will be showcased as part of the SDG Acceleration Day on the 17 September 2023. Two Member States, Iceland and Tanzania, will co-host the event with UN Women and with the collective leadership and support of multistakeholder leaders, leveraging their global leadership on gender equality to drive action, accountability, and renewed commitments to accelerate the SDGs through Generation Equality and its six Action Coalitions and Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action Compact (WPS-HA Compact).

Point/s of contact |  Ziad Sheikh (ziad.sheikh@unwomen.org); Shannon Tracy (Shannon.tracy@unwomen.org)

Generation Equality is an unprecedented global effort to accelerate investment and implementation of gender equality in today¡¯s context of stalled progress and regression. Convened by UN Women, at the core, Generation Equality is a collection of six multistakeholder partnerships between civil society, youth, governments, the UN system, the private sector and philanthropists, and a Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action, to catalyze partners, increase investments, drive results and accelerate the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is anchored in the UN Decade of Action, and it emphasizes the achievement of SDG 5 on gender equality and the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to benefit women and girls in all their diversity. The UN Secretary General¡¯s report ¡°Our Common Agenda¡± (OCA) highlights the relevance of the Generation Equality methodology as a multistakeholder platform through which efforts towards gender equality can be strengthened and encourages Member States to build on the momentum created by the initiative.