The GPEI is committed to advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women in its efforts to eradicate polio. The GPEI supports national partners to accelerate their progresstowards polio-free status, while upholding progress on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by identifying and responding to gender dimensions of polio eradication. The GPEI collectively works towards identifying and addressing gender-related barriers to immunization, and recognizes and addresses the diversity of people’s specific needs, challenges and priorities so that our work equally benefits girls, boys, women and men, and people with diverse gender identities