UN Women publishes the official documentation for the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) on its website, which includes the reports of the Secretary-General and 147 written statements submitted by the NGO in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Social Promotion Foundation, in Special Consultive Status since 2001 and General Consultive Status since 2004 with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), has presented its written statement, accessible from this link https://undocs.org/en/E/CN.6/2022/NGO/145 and downloadable from here, in line with the main theme of CSW66 ‘Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes’.
In it, the Foundation, committed since 1987 to ensure that all people can live in accordance with their human dignity, being the protagonists of their lives and the engine of their own development through its programs and projects, promoting human, social and economic development sustainable, exposes the impact and problems associated with climate change in Ethiopia, and to what extent this affected women and girls more. All this, based on its stable work experience in this country since 2006, which is currently materialized in the agreement for rural development that it carries out in consortium with the NGO Rescate and together with its partners Ethiopian Catholic Church Social and Development Commission (ECC-SDCO)-Harar and Horn of Africa Voluntary Youth Committee (HAVOYOCO), with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). Likewise, it makes a series of recommendations to try to mitigate it.
The presentation of this statement is a response from the Foundation to the call that UN Women makes to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for active participation as a critical element in the work of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). NGOs have been influential in shaping the current global policy framework on women’s empowerment and gender equality: the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. And they continue to play an important role in holding international and national leaders accountable for the commitments they made in the Platform for Action.