EU Ambassador for Gender and Diversity
Message from the Ambassador
"Achieving gender equality and diversity is a task for everybody and not only for a restricted circle of experts. It is a leadership responsibility, and I want us to accomplish this mission. We intend to lead by example, and one of the ways to do this is by establishing gender-responsive and gender-balanced leadership at top EU political and management levels.
Only if gender and diversity are fully integrated into all EU’s analyses and responses to challenges, crises and conflicts, as well as to the EU’s contribution to rules-based multilateralism, will the outcome be sustainable and will respond to the expectations of our changing societies and their citizens in all their diversity.
The Gender Action Plan III (GAP III) is the main policy framework to realize this. It is our guiding tool when it comes to our external action. The key word is mainstreaming, making sure that gender is integrated as a reflex in our policy documents, position papers, decisions, and Council conclusions. GAP III also includes the notion that we want to lead by example, by establishing gender-responsive and gender-balanced leadership at top EU political and management levels.
Within the EEAS, we continue to improve the conditions for everybody to work, while being able to express fully who we are, as well as to achieve gender balance to produce results that are more sustained and predictable."
- Ambassador Stella Ronner-Grubačić
Twitter account: @StellaRonner
EEAS Agenda for Diversity and Inclusion
On 1 July 2021, the EEAS Secretary-General Stefano Sannino appointed Stella Ronner-Grubačić as Ambassador for Gender and Diversity. One of her tasks was to conceptualise and shape the EEAS work on diversity, both internally as well as in its external action.
The EEAS Secretary-General launched the EEAS Agenda for Diversity and Inclusion together with the Ambassador on 16 February 2023, in the presence of the HR/VP Josep Borrell, during a hybrid town hall meeting with staff attending from Headquarters and EU delegations from around the world.
This Agenda is the first EEAS strategy that covers all grounds of discrimination, and brings together into one comprehensive document both external and internal aspects of diversity and inclusion with the aim to ensure a greater mainstreaming of equality, diversity and inclusion throughout EU external action, and it reiterates our commitment to combat discrimination on any ground.
Gender Equality in EU Foreign and Security Policy: A Question of Leadership
Ambassador Stella RONNER-GRUBAČIĆ delivers the 9th annual “EU Diplomacy Lecture” organised by the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges on 13 October 2022.
<< Watch the recording of the lecture
“10 in 10: The world through the eyes of a girl” exhibition launch
Plan International has organised Girls Takeover campaigns globally since 2016. By occupying spaces and places where they are rarely seen or heard in, girls and young women demand actions and solutions to ensure all girls can learn, lead, decide and thrive.
“10 in 10: The world through the eyes of a girl” is the title of an exhibition under the umbrella of the Plan International campaign, featuring illustrations portraying how the world can look like for a 10-year-old girl, 10 years from now, accompanied by a written message created by the young advocates themselves on their own experiences, aspirations, demands and hopes. The exhibition takes place at the Esplanade of the European Parliament in Brussels between 11--14 October.
"I applaud their initiative to organize an exhibition featuring several girls addressing topics of importance for them, including education, but also Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), youth employment and harmful stereotypes. By doing so, they want to show us the world they want to live in. The world that they would like all girls to see, when they are 10 years old."
- Ambassador Stella Ronner-Grubačić
-
Image
Ambassador Stella Ronner-Grubačić participated in the launch of Plan International's 10 in 10 exhibition
-
Image
Ambassador Stella Ronner-Grubačić participated in the launch of Plan International's 10 in 10 exhibition
-
Image
Ambassador Stella Ronner-Grubačić participated in the launch of Plan International's 10 in 10 exhibition
Related Stories
