Similar to previous years, the Women’s Major Group’s members throughout the World, have prepared Alternative / Shadow Reports for their countries’ Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). The list of HLPF 2021’s VNR countries can be found here.
Unless otherwise stated, the parallel reports are the sole product, and reflects the views, of the authoring member, organization or platform. The WMG does, however, support the valuable advocacy and mobilizing work done by the members on the local, national, and regional level through the process of holding their governments accountable.
“In fact, developing a shadow report can be a powerful tool in any case. It provides a platform to work across civil society organizations, creates opportunities to engage with your government, helps determine a baseline to measure change over time, generates information and analysis to use in advocacy and media work, and helps to identify gaps and deficiencies in government policies and programs. If you are engaged in other types of international reporting, such as reporting to the CEDAW Committee, you may be able to use information and analysis from one shadow report to support another.” – WMG’s Engaging with the National Voluntary Review Process
China
Beijing Equality’s Progress and Prospect of China’s Civil Report for Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response (English)
Spain
Futuro en Común’s (with our member Creacion Positiva) Position Paper on Spain’s 2021 VNR (Summary in Spanish) & (Full paper in Spanish)
Sweden
Concord Sweden’s (with our member WILPF) Civil Society Spotlight Report on Sweden’s Implementation of the 2030 Agenda (English)
