Unleashing Women’s Potential and Advancing Gender Equality in Economic Development: The World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030 (2024)

The World Bank Group’s new Gender Strategy 2024-30 focuses on innovation, financing, and collective action to support foundational well-being, economic participation, and women’s leadership. This blog by Hana Brixi, the World Bank’s Global Director for Gender, recounts how two years of intensive internal and external consultations shaped the Strategy for the better, built valuable relationships, and affirmed the centrality of gender equality to ending poverty on a livable planet.