Statement of European Union, October, 2015

On top of our long-standing, active and continuous commitment, we intend to do even more and to assume substantial financial commitments:

To thoroughly mainstream gender and to include gender-specific actions in all the EU financial instruments, in order to cover inter alia mediation, natural resources and conflicts, security sector reform, early warning, post-conflict/disaster needs' assessment and police/civilian stabilisation missions. For this purpose, we will allocate more than €100 million over the next 7 years to gender egualitv. Women and girls' empowerment projects, while in the context of the EU's humanitarian assistance, we will tailor responses to the different and specific needs of women and men of all ages, using targeted tools to assess how effectively all EU's humanitarian actions integrate gender and age.