Enabling Environments for Advancing Gender Equality and Health Equity

Emma L M Rhule, Katindi Sivi, Johanna Riha and Tiffany Nassiri-Ansari (2025). Enabling Environments for Advancing Gender Equality and Health Equity. United Nations University International Institute for Global Health.
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  • Author Emma L M Rhule
    Katindi Sivi
    Johanna Riha
    Tiffany Nassiri-Ansari
    Title Enabling Environments for Advancing Gender Equality and Health Equity
    Publication Date 2025-04-09
    Place of Publication Kuala Lumpur
    Publisher United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
    Pages 15
    Language eng
    Abstract Now more than ever before, the attainment of gender equality and health equity requires that we come together – to share resources, support each other, and, most importantly, recognise the agency that we have as individuals, institutions, and intertwined ecosystems to effect change. Doing so requires breaking free of the oppressive weight of the “now” to look towards the liberatory potential of what comes “next”, to shift from a reactive to a proactive stance. This paper contains an abridged summary of the Enabling Environments to Advance Gender Equality in Health workshop, which outlines a decolonial feminist approach to futures and foresight, summarises twelve drivers for change in gender and health, and introduces collective action and funding as two key levers of change. Both levers are explored in more detail other papers within the Advancing Gender Equality for Health: Expanding voices, evidence, and time horizons for change series. Ultimately, this paper stresses the need for agentic, proactive, and long-term action to counter rising backlash against and backsliding in gender and health to take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity to lay the foundations for decolonial feminist futures that ensure gender equality and health equity for all.
    Keyword Gender Equality
    Gender
    Health
    Health Equity
    Decolonial Feminism
    Copyright Holder United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
    Copyright Year 2025
    Copyright type Creative commons
    DOI https://doi.org/10.37941/RR/2025/1
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