About

The Gender & Chemicals Partnership (G&CP) is an international and multi-sectoral multi-stakeholder coalition established in 2023 that was created in response to a widely recognised need for stronger integration of gender perspectives into chemicals and waste management, contributing to the objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It brings together governments, academia, civil society, and industry to address the global pollution crisis through the lens of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The G&CP’s members include more than 25 partner organisations and individual partners (as of April 2026), spanning multiple sectors across four continents. Members include environment ministries, gender experts, IGOs, NGOs, universities, as well as women’s and youth organizations, combining expertise in international chemicals and waste governance, gender studies, pesticides, sustainable chemistry, the textile industry, toxicology, and water management, among other fields.

Drawing on the diverse and complementary expertise of its members, the G&CP supports the development and content curation of the Gender & Chemicals Knowledge Platform, in particular through its Working Group on Gender Data and Information, contributing to quality assurance and knowledge integration.

The MSP Institute is a non-profit organization that is based in Germany and has been working at the intersection of gender and chemicals since 2017. It leads the development and coordination of the Gender & Chemicals Knowledge Platform in close collaboration with the Gender & Chemicals Partnership for which it serves as the Secretariat.

The MSP Institute’s work on gender and chemicals focuses on integrating gender perspectives into international and national chemicals and waste management, and increasing the participation of women’s organisations and gender experts in international chemicals processes — including the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC, formerly SAICM) and the Intergovernmental Science Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP). Examples of this work include collaborating with the Global Framework on Chemicals Secretariat (UNEP) to develop a Gender Action Plan for the GFC (2024–2025), and supporting the launch of the Women’s Caucus in the Minamata Convention process in November 2025, together with Women4Biodiversity.

The MSP Institute is accredited as an observer to the UN Environment Assembly and its subsidiary organs, registered as a non-government stakeholder to the Global Framework on Chemicals, and accredited as an observer to the Minamata Convention.

As part of its broader mission, the MSP Institute supports and builds capacity for high-quality multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) for sustainable development and works to strengthen meaningful participation, open dialogue, and effective collaboration involving all sectors of societies.