Target Gender Equality Accelerator

Target Gender Equality is a year-long accelerator programme for participating companies of the UN Global Compact to set and reach ambitious corporate targets for women’s representation and leadership.

Through facilitated performance analysis, capacity building workshops, peer-to-peer learning, and multi-stakeholder dialogue at the country-level, companies can deepen the implementation of the Women’s Empowerment Principles and strengthen their contribution to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 5.5 which calls for women’s full participation and equal opportunities for leadership, including in economic life, by 2030.

March 15 – May 30, 2022: Recruitment

June – September 2022:  Performance analysis and results discussions (WEPs Gender Gap Analysis Tool)

September 2022 – February 2023: Three capacity building workshops and the completion of an Action Planning Guide to support participants to apply learnings within their company’s context

• Workshop 1: “Setting Targets & Defining Ambition”
• Workshop 2: “Strategies for Success”
• Workshop 3: “Measuring & Communicating Progress”

February 2023 – March 2023: Multi-stakeholder action dialogue to advocate and raise the bar for gender equality

Reach out to Brittany Gataveckas at brittany@unglobalcompact.ca for more information about the Target Gender Equality Accelerator or to discuss Global Compact Network Canada’s gender equality initiatives.