As the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals approaches, the Generation Equality 2026 Financial Commitments Analysis provides a snapshot of the Generation Equality financing landscape, drawing on the 2025 Financial Survey and previous reporting cycles. It covers $50.3 billion in pledges and $21 billion in reported expenditures, offering insights into financial flows, key challenges in funding distribution, and opportunities to strengthen feminist financing approaches.

🔎 Evidence: what the data show

• Generation Equality remains a powerful multi-stakeholder platform for financing and accountability
• Financing is significant but uneven, with bureaucratic hurdles and rigid funding models limiting impact where it is most needed
• Continued alignment with global frameworks strengthens resilience through partnership and adaptation. 

🚀 Recommendations: key priorities moving forward

• Increase direct, flexible and predictable financing
• Strengthen data, monitoring and accountability systems
• Shift power to feminist movements and local actors
• Build resilience to anti-rights backlash
• Reinforce governance, coordination and cross-regional solidarity
• Clarify Generation Equality’s post-2026 roadmap. 

A special thank you note to Generation Equality partners who contributed to the 2025 Financial Survey making this analysis possible and helping generate the evidence for organizational learning and better decision making.

🌐 Find the report and advocacy factsheets: https://commitments.generationequality.org/2026-publications/2026-financial-commitments-analysis/

Thanks in advance for reading. Laura