We are extremely glad to release and share our 2019-2020 Biennial Report today. As it coincides with GI-ESCR’s 10th anniversary, we decided to present our activities and achievements in a different albeit precise, clear and attractive way and hope you will enjoy reading it!

After a brief presentation of GI-ESCR, the report outlines quantitative and qualitative key achievements, with a selection of significant examples demonstrating how GI-ESCR’s work with its partners is making a difference in people’s lives.

Thematic pages then present the activities carried out and achievements made over the two-year period, with pleasant-to-read double pages.

The section on “Partnerships” allows us to thank all our partners, individuals, groups and organisations and to recall that collaboration work is at the core of GI-ESCR’s essence, methodology and theory of change to further social and economic justice and catalyse change from the local to the global, back to the local. 

2019-2020 Biennial Report at a glance

Open the report!

You can open the 2019-2020 Biennial Report in two different PDF formats, horizontal or vertical, at your convenience. The horizontal format allows you to see double pages on your computer’s screen. If you open the report with your phone, we advise you to open the vertical one, to ease your reading.  

Words from our Chair of the Board and Executive Director

“As the world confronts intersecting and cascading crises, the work of GIESCR is crucial for advancing the rights of those most impacted by structural inequality, the health and economic devastation wrought by COVID and the ravages of climate change. Led by a deeply strategic and principled team, GI-ESCR is scaling its work to meet the challenges. This biennial report highlights the strong and visionary leadership that Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, appointed as new Executive Director in October 2019, brings to the organisation. Magdalena is building on the significant legacy of former Executive Directors, Bret Thiele and Mayra Gómez by rapidly forging new partnerships to strategically redress social, economic and gender injustice through a human rights lens and in partnership with communities. By doing so, she has also strengthened the organisation’s visibility and worldwide recognition, while achieving significant impacts, as this report demonstrates.” 

- Ellen Dorsey, Chair of the Board of Directors of GI-ESCR.

“We will continue to work to ensure that the voices and solutions of the most affected communities and peoples are heard by policy makers at the local, regional and international levels. The achievements we made in 2019-2020, briefly presented in this report, give us a gleam of hope and encourage us to keep working for a world in which everyone has access to education, health care, social protection, water and sanitation, food, housing and other economic, social and cultural rights. I sincerely hope that you will enjoy reading this report and that we will continue to chart the path towards a better world together.” 

- Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, Executive Director of GI-ESCR.