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STORY: SEVILLA / FINANCING FOR GENDER EQUALITY
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 JULY 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN / 29 JUNE AND 01 JULY 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
29 JUNE 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
1. Various shots, exterior, Conference centre
01 JULY 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
2. Various shots, reporters
03 JULY 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
3. Wide shot, press briefing room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Women:
“This initiative embodies the growing global momentum for gender responsive financing and our shared commitment to turn the Compromiso de Sevilla into concrete action. We face unprecedented financing crises for gender equality. As in the UN, we are seeing from our data over $420 billion is required to close the gender gap in the global South on development.”
5. Wide shot, press briefing room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Women:
“Despite decades of commitments, women and girls remain disproportionately affected by poverty, unpaid care work, gender-based violence and exclusion from decision making. These disparities are not accidents, they reflect fiscal and financial systems that systematically ignore or reinforce patterns of discrimination, especially for women in marginalized communities, including women with disabilities. The economic case of action is overwhelming. Closing gender gaps in employment could add trillions of dollars to global GDP.
7. Wide shot, press briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Women:
“Yet, we continue to underinvest in half of the world's population – a devastating waste of human potential and economic opportunity. The urgency has never been greater. Intersecting crises, debt burdens, climate impacts and economic instability are deepening gender inequalities eternal in alarming rates. With just five years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and without transformative financing for gender equality, we will fail not only SDG5, but the entire 2030 Agenda.”
9. Wide shot, press briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Women:
“The private sector must scale up gender lens investing, supporting women led enterprises and inclusive supply chains into align or financing with SDG5 into ESG goals while protecting women's rights within their own enterprises.”
11. Wide shot, press briefing room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Women:
“The costs of inaction is catastrophic. Without transformative financing for gender equality, we will not only fail women and girls counting on us, we will fail to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We will fail to end poverty. We will fail to build resilient economies our world desperately needs. But the potential for transformation is immense. By prioritizing financing for gender equality, we can correct historic injustices, unlock the potential of half of the world's population, and accelerate progress towards every single SDGs.”
13. Wide shot, press briefing room
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antón Leis García, Director, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID):
“We need to empower women politically, socially and economically to make sure that 50 percent of humanity can't really chip in in these big tasks that we have ahead of us, which is promoting sustainable development, closing another gap, which is that SDG implementation gaps. And on this, we are lucky not to be alone. We have the UN system with UN women and the entire UN system embracing this course, but also many countries, a lot of private sector organizations and civil society, because I think we need absolutely everyone fighting for not just a right cost, but also a very smart cost.”
15. Wide shot, press briefing room
The Sevilla Platform for Action announced an initiative calling all stakeholders to significantly increase investments to close the gender financing gaps.
On the last day of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) today (03 Jul), UN Woman deputy chief Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda told reporters that the newly launched initiative “embodies the growing global momentum for gender responsive financing and our shared commitment to turn the Compromiso de Sevilla into concrete action.”
“We face unprecedented financing crises for gender equality. As in the UN, we are seeing from our data over $420 billion is required to close the gender gap in the global South on development,” Gumbonzvanda stressed.
The Deputy Executive Director highlighted, “Despite decades of commitments, women and girls remain disproportionately affected by poverty, unpaid care work, gender-based violence and exclusion from decision making.”
“These disparities are not accidents, they reflect fiscal and financial systems that systematically ignore or reinforce patterns of discrimination, especially for women in marginalized communities, including women with disabilities,” she further explained, reiterating that “closing gender gaps in employment could add trillions of dollars to global GDP.”
Gumbonzvanda also noted that half of the world's population is underinvested – “a devastating waste of human potential and economic opportunity.”
“The urgency has never been greater. Intersecting crises, debt burdens, climate impacts and economic instability are deepening gender inequalities eternal in alarming rates,” she stressed.
The Deputy Executive Director continued, “With just five years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and without transformative financing for gender equality, we will fail not only SDG5, but the entire 2030 Agenda.”
Gumbonzvanda stated that the private sector “must scale up gender lens investing, supporting women led enterprises and inclusive supply chains into align or financing with SDG5 into ESG goals while protecting women's rights within their own enterprises.”
“The costs of inaction is catastrophic,” the Deputy Executive Director highlighted, adding that the potential for transformation is “immense.” She said, “By prioritizing financing for gender equality, we can correct historic injustices, unlock the potential of half of the world's population, and accelerate progress towards every single SDGs.”
For his part, Antón Leis García, Director of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) said, “We need to empower women politically, socially and economically” to make sure that 50 percent of humanity can chip in promoting sustainable development and closing the SDG implementation gaps.
