This is the EU’s Info Center on gender equality in the southern Mediterranean region. The EU pays particular attention to the implementation of the EU Gender Action Plan 2016-2021, and to supporting Southern Mediterranean partners in delivering on their commitments to gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment, in line also with the universal 2030 Agenda. Emphasis is given to ensuring girl’s and women’s physical and psychological integrity, promoting the social and economic rights and empowerment of women and girls, their access to justice, education, health care and other social services, strengthening their voice and political participation and shifting the institutional culture to deliver on these commitments.