Gender data and statistics are critical in shaping accelerated action to achieve gender equality. However, recent funding cuts are putting the quality and availability of data at risk. A survey of national statistics offices confirmed that close to 7 in 10 have seen reduced international or domestic funding for statistics since January 2025 (68.3 per cent).

The Beijing+30 Action Agenda is a bold, forward-looking framework and sets out six priority actions to accelerate progress on both the Platform and the SDGs:  A digital revolution; Freedom from poverty; Zero violence; Full and equal decision-making power: Peace and security and Climate justice.

The future is not fixed, but it is being written. And what leaders choose to do now will define what gender equality looks like, not only in 2030, but for generations to come. Last week 106 governments including Bangladesh have stepped forward with 191 priority actions, identifying where they will invest, what barriers they will dismantle, and how they will accelerate progress between now and 2030. This act of showing up, affirms a powerful truth: gender equality remains a unifying force. And multilateralism is still delivering.

In a moment shaped by both resistance and resolve, this year’s Gender Snapshot affirms a simple truth: gender equality is foundational to peace, justice, development, and human rights.

* Gitanjali Singh is the UN Women Representative in Bangladesh.

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