UK in India: Pledge for Progress

News Desk: British High Commission in New Delhi launched 'Pledge for Progress' campaign with partners across India to promote gender equality and mobilise real change.

On 5 November, the ‘UK in India’ network and over 100 partners launched the ‘Pledge for Progress’ campaign, a joint commitment to promote gender equality and take practical steps to tackle gender challenges. The ‘Pledge for Progress’ initiative aims to empower organisations and individuals to break down gender norms and together build a gender-equal society, through five key commitments:

1. Lead: using our platforms to amplify the voices of women leaders, within our organisations and beyond.
2. Represent: seeking gender diverse representation when hosting and participating in panels and roundtables.
3. Embed: striving to include gender analysis in the design, implementation and evaluation of our activities.
4. Include: making our organisations great places for people of all genders to work and ensuring our internal policies fulfil that aim.
5. Mobilise: working as a collective of gender equality champions, and developing and sharing best practice to together implement this pledge.

This cross-sectoral collective of 114 organisations spanning business, education, arts and civil society have pledged to tackle gender inequality and