Parliamentarians for Global Action 2022-2024 Parliamentarians for Global Action 2022-2024 - PGA 2022-2024 - Ny strategi 2024 Parliamentarians for Global Action has applied to Sida for core funding of 9 million SEK to implement their plan "Empowering and mobilizing legislators as champions for human rights, democracy and a sustainable world” during the period 2022 - 2024
The intervention aims to mobilize legislators to contribute to a rules based international order for a more equitable, safe, sustainable and democratic world. PGA will work through campaigns focused at 8 overarching objectives:
- Universality and Effectiveness of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) system
- Universality and Implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) and Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)
- Addressing the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and Improved Regulation of the International Arms Trade to Prevent Human Rights Abuses
- Ending Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM)
- Ending Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)
- Abolition of the Death Penalty (ADP)
- Protection of the Oceans and Implementation of SDG 14 (to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources)
- Democratic Renewal and Human Rights 
The interventions total budget for the period 2022-2024 is estimated to 62 million SEK contributed by Institutional donors, Foundations and other Private entities. Insatsen avser ett kärnstöd till Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) om totalt 9 MNSEK för att implementera sin strategiska plan "Empowering and mobilizing legislators as champions for human rights, democracy and a sustainable world” under perioden 2022-2024.
Insatsen syftar till att mobilisera parlamentsledamöter att bidra till en internationell ordning baserad på internationella regelverk för en mer rättvis, säker, demokratisk och hållbar värld. Detta genom arbete mot 8 målområden:
- Universalitet och effektivitet av Romstadgan av den internationella brottmålsdomstolen (ICC) och dess system
- Universalitet och implementering av konventionen om biologiska och kemiska vapen (BWC) samt implementering av FN's säkerhetsrådsresolution 1540 (2004)
- Förhindra den olagliga handeln med lätta vapen (SALW) samt förbättrad reglering av internationell vapenhandel för att förhindra övergrepp på mänskliga rättigheter 
 - Stoppa barn- och tidiga tvingande äktenskap
-  Stoppa diskriminering på basis av sexuell orientering och genus identitet
-  Stoppa dödsstraffen 
-  Skydd av haven och implementering av SDG 14
- Säkerställa att demokratiska normer, institutioner och civilt och politiskt utrymme, inklusive lagstiftares grundläggande rättigheter, är skyddade och uppehållna

PGA's totala organisationsbudget för projektperioden 2022-2024 är 62 MNSEK, av vilken PGA efterfrågar 9 MNSEK (14,5%) från Sida i kärnstöd. Den återstående delen planeras att täckas av medel från Danmark, Kanada, Nederländerna, Estland, Schweiz, Liechtenstein (Global Equality Fund), mellanstatliga organisationer som UNSCAR och EU kommissionen samt stiftelser och fonder så som Stewart R Mott Foundation, Arcus Foundation, CRDF Global, Oak Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Planethood Foundation, Raymond & Elizabeth Bloch Foundation och Sigrid Rausing Trust. PGA`s vision is to contribute to the creation of a rule-based international order for a more equitable, safe, sustainable and democratic world.

As a non-governmental, multiparty, international network of legislators, acting in their individual capacity  PGA informs and mobilizes parliamentarians in all regions of the world to advocate for human rights and the Rule of Law, democracy, human security, inclusion, gender equality and justice, including climate justice.

 PGA´s strategic plan 2022 -2024 consists of three programs:

- International Law and Human Rights (ILHR program)

- Gender, Equality and Inclusion (GEI program).

- International Peace and Security (IPSP program).

All Programs  of PGA are organized into nine global international results-oriented campaigns with clear objectives.

The goal of the  core campaign for "Democratic Renewal and Human Rights"  is to  inform , empower and mobilize parliamentarians to use their  representative, legislative and oversight prerogatives to effectively  tackle threats to democratic principles and institutions and human rights a the domestic, regional and international levels.



 The ILHR program consists of three campaigns:

1) Campaign for the universality and effectiveness of the system  of the Rome statue of the international criminal court.

2) Campaign for the abolition of the death penalty 

3) Campaign for the Protection of the Oceans and Implementation of SDG 14

The goals of the campaigns are to contribute to ending impunity and improve access to justice for victims of the gravest international crimes and to work towards the abolition of the death penalty and to promote justice systems grounded in the rule of law. 

The GEI program  consists of three campaigns:

1) Campaign to end child, early and forced marriage

2) Campaign to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

3) Campaign (regional) for a Human Rights-based approach to climate action 

The goals of the campaigns are to sensitize  and mobilize parliamentarians in the Caribbean around the Escazu agreement ( environmental treaty of Latin America and the Caribean), to contribute to the decriminalization of consensual same-sex conduct and to contribute to legislative and policy-making processes that ban child marriage and promote girl's  equal access to education, health, justice and economic opportunities.

The IPSP program consists of two campaigns;

1) Campaign addressing the threat of weapons of mass destruction  subdivided into:

 a) Campaign for the Universality and Implementation of the biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Implementation of UN security Council Resolution 1540

b) Campaign to Promote Nuclear and Radiological Security

c) Global Cybersecurity Initiative

2) Campaign on Addressing the Illicit Trade in small Arms and Light Weapons and Improved regulation of the International arms Trade

The goals of the campaigns are to marshalling global parliamentary  support for ratification  of relevant international treaties, as well as providing legal and technical advice relating to subsequent  implementation and enforcement of these treaties at the national level.