WEPs Guidance

WEPs Learn 2026 - From Commitment to Action

Companies are increasingly demonstrating their commitment to gender equality, across all seven of the UN Women Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs).

Toolbox | Gender-responsive procurement in the watch and jewelry industry

In 2025, UN Women’s WEPs Secretariat and the Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030 (WJI 2030) collaborated with experts and member companies to co-create practical tools on gender-responsive procurement.

WEPs Transparency & Accountability Roadmap - A maturity pathway to gender equality through data and leadership

• How can companies move from gender equality commitments to measurable results?
• What gender data should be collected — and how can it be used to guide strategy and decision-making?

Deep Dive into Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

This manual primarily aims to provide human resources and DEI professionals in WEPs signatory companies—large and small—with guidance to design, implement and track progress against their workplace DEI policies and procedures and cultivate corporate DEI cultures.

Checklist for Gender-Responsive Recruitment

Use this checklist to verify your recruitment process and ensure that it is gender-responsive.

We welcome recruiting firms, headhunters and in-house Human Resources departments to use this check list in their day-to-day work.

WEPs Gender Responsive Procurement Tool Preview Questions

The UN Women’s Empowerment Principles – Gender-Responsive Procurement (GRP) Assessment Tool allows companies to assess progress on their GRP policies and practices on gender-responsive procurement. This self-assessment tool is available to all WEPs signatories.

Business guide: Actions to prevent harassment and violence in the workplace

In 2021, Ecuador showcased its commitment to eliminate gender-based harassment and violence in the workplace by ratifying ILO Convention 190 on the prevention of harassment and violence in the workplace.