Gender+ Equality Plan (2024-2028)
The WUR Gender+ Equality Plan (G+EP) enables to profit from collaboration in our efforts to advancing equality, diversity & inclusion, and social safety at WUR, and all of its activities. Its implementation ensures the further development of a Gender+-SMART WUR. The WUR G+EP is designed and formulated in line with the standards developed by the EU.
Gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union and is one of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDG 5) and a cross-cutting theme in their programming. SDG 10 (to reduce inequalities) refers to an intersectional or gender+ approach that acknowledges that the gender dimension intersects with other relevant social dimensions of (in)equality. Examples of these are age, class, race/ethnicity, religion, locality, sexual orientation, health or civic status.
Next step to address biases, inequalities and capacity building
The G+EP is a next step to collectively address biases and inequalities in education and research, governance and leadership, recruitment and career support, social safety and work-life balance. This includes the strengthening of capacities among students and staff to accordingly contribute to WUR as institution and its social impact in WUR’s activities , programming, and partnerships. It strongly connects to earlier and existing activities to benefit most from the interconnections and synergies.
Implementation
The responsibility for the implementation is delegated by the Executive Board to the Deans of Education and of Research, and the Corporate director HRM. A working group consisting of staff from the various relevant domains is mandated with the execution. Annual working plans and progress reports, including monitoring and evaluation procedures, will guide the implementation.