UN Gender Network (HN)

发展，特别是可持续发展目标，与性别问题有着不可磨灭的联系，性别平等和增强妇女和女童权能是目标5的基础。尽管《联合国宪章》明确规定了性别平等的基础，但在本组织中却没有。这对联合国来说是一个重大问题，因为它要依靠自身的合法性来领导包括性别和发展在内的许多全球问题。如果没有性别平等，联合国的太多活动和太多工作仍然主要——如果不是全部——以男性视角为指导和引领。该网络以秘书处和可持续发展目标的实施为中心，是一种创新的干预措施，旨在了解性别如何影响联合国的活动，特别是其对可持续发展目标和发展的领导作用。通过可持续发展目标，联合国鼓励各国维护妇女权利，消除性别歧视，实现性别平等。然而，联合国未能在本组织内落实这些原则。这种情况必须改变。2016年，联合国承认83%的实体未能实现性别目标，自2012年以来没有任何进展，只有33%的实体拥有性别部门或同等机构来帮助实现性别主流化和平等。联合国性别平等网络本着对话与合作的精神，将学术界、民间社会、会员国和联合国秘书处本身聚集在一起。它将深入了解联合国内部性别不平等的原因和影响，以及这对联合国领导可持续发展目标和更广泛的发展政策的影响。由PI和Co-I领导的学术界、其网络合作伙伴艾滋病自由世界、英国外交和联邦事务部（FCO）、民间社会以及网络参与者的合作将导致联合国政策改革议程的制定，这将直接影响到在全球南方实施可持续发展目标。学术界正在兴起的一种说法表明，围绕特定主题开展的协作工作，在促进对联合国内部性别不平等的理解方面大有作为。如果要发生变化，国家代表团的支持是必要的，因此，外交部的作用是吸引更广泛的国家，特别是全球南方国家，加入推动联合国改革的关键。合作使各方能够向决策者提供跨部门的反馈；一个联合倡导的过程，增加政策和组织变革的可能性。从项目伙伴在创建联合国妇女署和妇女问题协调中心方面已经采取的步骤可以看出这种合作活动的影响。联合国性别平等网络的目标是：通过一系列研讨会和在线社区，建立一个包括学术界、民间社会、联合国和各国代表团在内的联合国性别问题跨国网络；2. 探讨如何促进长期合作活动，为本组织带来有效的政策改变；3. 利用来自学术和民间社会、国家代表团和联合国本身的专业知识，共同制定一个研究项目议程，以了解联合国内部性别不平等的原因和影响，及其对联合国在可持续发展目标实施中的领导力和合法性的影响；4. 利用该网络的活动作为平台，制定有针对性的政策建议，同时开展具体的研究合作，向联合国提出有效的政策建议，以确保长期变革，并支持可持续发展目标的实施，特别是目标5和；5. 通过研究生和早期职业研究人员的积极参与，以及在跨国参与者之间建立有效的合作，确保网络的可持续性。利益攸关方将能够利用该网络的改革建议和研究，确保可持续发展目标能够更好地实现性别平等和其他发展目标。

Development, and in particular, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are indelibly linked to questions of gender with gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls underpinning Goal 5. Despite the UN Charter clearly laying the basis for gender equality it is absent from the Organisation. This is a major issue for the UN as it depends upon its own legitimacy to lead across many global issues including on gender and development. Without gender equality too many of the UN's activities and too much of its work remains predominantly - if not entirely- informed and spearheaded by the male perspective. Centring on the Secretariat and SDG implementation, the Network is an innovative intervention in understanding how gender impacts on the UN's activities particularly its leadership of the SDGs and development. Through the SDGs the UN encourages states to uphold women's rights, eliminate gender discrimination, and to achieve gender equality. Yet, the UN fails to give effect to those principles within the Organisation. This has to change. In 2016 the UN admitted that 83% of its entities have failed to hit gender targets with no progress since 2012 and only 33% possessed a gender unit or equivalent to aid in achieving gender mainstreaming and equality. The UN Gender Network brings academics, civil society, member states and the UN Secretariat itself together in a spirit of conversation and collaboration. It will achieve a deep understanding of the causes and impact of gender inequality within the UN and the impact this has on its leadership of the SDGs and broader development policy. The collaboration of academics led by the PI and Co-I, its Network Partners AIDsFreeWorld, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and civil society as well as Network participants will lead to the development of an agenda for UN policy reform that will directly impact upon the implementation of the SDGs in the Global South. An emerging discourse within academia suggests that collaborative work around specific themes has much to offer in advancing understanding of gender inequality within the UN. State delegation support is a necessity if change is to occur and thus the role of the FCO is key to bringing a wider array of states, particularly those in the Global South, on board to push for UN reform. Collaboration enables all parties to offer cross-sectoral feedback to decision-makers; a process of joint advocacy that increases the likelihood of policy and organisational change. The impact of such collaborative activities can be seen with the steps already taken in the creation of UN Women and the Focal Point for Women by project partners.The UN Gender network aims to: 1. establish a transnational UN Gender network that includes academics, civil society, the UN and state delegations through a series of workshops and an online community; 2. Explore how long-term collaborative activities can be fostered that can bring about effective policy change within the Organisation; 3. Harness expertise from the academic and civil society, state delegations and the UN itself in the co-production of a research project agenda to understand the cause and impact of gender inequality within the UN and its impact upon the UN's leadership and legitimacy in the operationalisation of the SDGs; 4. Use the network's activities as a platform from which to develop targeted policy proposals alongside specific research collaborations that make effective policy recommendations to the UN to ensure long term change and to underpin the implementation of the SDGs, particularly Goal 5 and; 5. Ensure the network's sustainability through the active participation of postgraduate and early career researchers alongside establishing effective collaboration amongst the transnational participants. Stakeholders will be able to utilise the Network's reform proposals and research to ensure the SDGs are better placed to achieve gender equality and other development goals.