Shaping the Ambition for a Bicontinental Partnership

For decades, the African government signed commitments to protect and promote women’s and girls’ rights. But they were never upheld. Our work on the #RightByHer video was instrumental in promoting this as a key issue in the partnership between the EU and its African partners. As part of the #RightByHer collective efforts, we helped the message reach new and different groups across Africa, ensuring that commitments made this time around led to concrete actions. Like the Pan-African and European parliaments publicly committing to implement the EU Gender Equality Strategy and the African Union strategy on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. And the new partnership agreement between the EU and Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries outlining specific pledges to gender equality, women’s economic empowerment and SRHR — a contract that will guide the relations between the EU and ACP countries for the next 20 years.