The Gender & Chemicals Partnership (G&CP) is an international, cross-sector, multi-stakeholder partnership. It brings together key actors from politics, business, civil society and academia to promote gender equality and empower women and girls in managing chemicals.
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List of partnersHow does the G&CP achieve its goals?
The partnership aims to help tackle the global pollution crisis and achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and gender equality targets set out in the 2030 Agenda and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Through collaboration and knowledge sharing, the G&CP supports solutions to the global pollution crisis and contributes to the achievement of the SDGs.
G&CP objectives:
- Raise awareness of the links between gender, chemicals and waste, and promote measures to achieve gender equality.
- Support stakeholders in developing and implementing gender mainstreaming activities.
- Promote data collection and research to close knowledge gaps on gender aspects of chemicals and waste management.
- Enable knowledge sharing and training to strengthen skills and cooperation.
- Contribute to international policy processes to advance gender equality in chemicals and waste management.
- Monitor and evaluate own activities to ensure continuous learning and long-term impact.
How does the G&CP work?
The G&CP implements activities that promote and enable gender-responsive measures.
Its main areas of focus include:
- Cooperation with the United Nations and other intergovernmental organisations, including the secretariats of multilateral environmental agreements related to chemicals and other relevant institutions and processes, to raise awareness of the gender dimensions of chemicals and waste.
- Supporting the collection and disaggregation of gender-specific data, in collaboration with academia, industry and national and international statistical agencies.
- Promoting knowledge sharing and capacity building to strengthen expertise and support the exchange of best practices.
How is the G&CP funded?
The G&CP Secretariat is hosted by the MSP Institute, a charitable association based in Germany. From its official launch in 2023 until its formal establishment at the first G&CP Assembly in 2024, the partnership received financial support from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUV, now BMUKN). Since then, both the partnership’s activities and the Secretariat’s operations have been funded through project-based financing secured by the MSP Institute, as well as small financial and in-kind contributions from G&CP Partners. As of 2026, project-based funding has been provided by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN), the German Environment Agency (UBA), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Information on current project funding is available on the G&CP website.