ABOUT

W20 - G20 Women's Engagement Group

Women 20 - better known by the acronym W20, is one of the official independent engagement groups of the G20 focused on promoting gender equity and women's economic empowerment. It was established during Australia's presidency in 2014 and, like all other engagement groups, aims to recommend policies and commitments to the leadership of G20 countries. Each year, the W-20 prepares a document with key areas and recommendations known as a "Communique", delivering it to the representative person designated by each country leader (Sherpa) and advocating for the inclusion of these recommendations in the G20 final declaration. W20 brings together experts on various topics, from G20 countries, working in the majority of civil society and segments such as startups, universities and social businesses. During the preparation of Communique, the delegations are divided into working groups that analyze the themes, success stories of policies and actions and prepare suggestions. The country responsible for the presidency nominates one of the people to lead the working groups and can invite experts to participate. In addition to the work of delegations, the country promotes national dialogues with representatives of civil society organizations and government bodies that aim to promote women's rights. All this production is disseminated in a in-person event (Summit), which has the participation of international organizations and companies collaborating with content curation or sponsorship.
ABOUT

G20

Main forum for international economic cooperation that brings together 19 countries and the European Union. Each year one of the countries assumes the presidency, to reach the annual declaration of commitments, the forum's governance has 3 tracks. Engagement groups are one of these tracks and feed both the track of government representatives' working groups and the government's working groups on finance. In 2023, India led the bloc that included the African Union (AU) in the group and in 2024 Brazil will be responsible for presiding over the forum and the respective working groups and engagement groups. Some of the other engagement groups are: B20 (business), C20 (civil society), L20 (work), S20 (science), T20 (think tank), Y20 (youth) and Startups20.