Positioning UN Women as the Primary Global Stakeholder for Gender Equality.

 
Establishing gender economic governance is a fundamental pillar to the economy and sustainable development of all countries. Globally, countries lose $160 trillion in wealth due to gender inequality.
— Candidacy Statement Amelia Lopez Huix (Spain, 1974) for the Position of UN Women Executive Director
 
 

Global Impact

My aim to apply for the open position of Executive Director of UN Women is to give a global impulse to the execution of the second decade (2022-2030) of strategic priorities of UN Women, with a strong focus on increasing financing and accountability for gender equality and women’s empowerment,

Improving the Status of Women to Improve the State of Humanity

The Mission

1. Provide a high-level executive leadership approach
to SDG5 on gender equality and its cross-cutting impact in the Global Goals, and deliver excellence and influence at all UN Women organizational levels.

2. Implement the UN Women strategic plans, driving UN Women to be a service-oriented organization that supports the implementation of the global norms, policies, and standards on gender equality.

3. Make a leap of improvement of UN Women’s development results and increase effectiveness and efficiency to enhance coordination, coherence, and accountability of the UN system commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

 

Governments and the private sector play a key role in integrating systemic driven efforts to close the gender economic gap and deliver results for a country, regional and global levels of capitalization for sustainable social and economic impact.

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With the urgent and imperative business, sustainability, and human rights case for gender equality, the various opportunities of UN Women to foster multi-stakeholder oriented partnerships and alliances can create an impulse for operationalizing UN Women’s mandate and to make UN Women a 21st-century agency capable to deliver impact results by fully achieving the execution of its strategic priorities.