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Lithuania's commitment to advocate for women's leadership and participation in humanitarian programmes and policy-making spaces is one of the core goals and priorities of development cooperation projects in Eastern Partnership and other countries. • In 2018, Lithuania implemented 12 development projects in the Eastern Partnership countries, Mongolia and Palestine to strengthen gender equality organizations, increase women's empowerment, etc. • Lithuania supported and contributed to the implementation of the global women, peace and security agenda consisted by the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and other eight Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). In November 2018, Lithuania hosted a 3-day international experts conference for building capacities of public institutions and civil society organizations in implementing the WPS agenda. As a consequence, an inclusive inter-sectoral working group to develop a new, revised Lithuanian National Action Plan on WPS was set up in the beginning of 2019. • While implementing the global WPS Agenda in 2018, Lithuania organized international conferences to address enhancing women’s political participation at all levels, from international to local, and in sectors covering from foreign policy to municipal management: • The Women Political Leaders Summit 2018 “It’s About Time! 100 Reasons to Act!” was held in June 2018. The Summit was initiated by H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania and Chairperson of the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL), and organised in cooperation with the Women Political Leaders Global Forum. • In October 2018, the international conference “Gender Mainstreaming in Municipalities: Sharing of the Nordic Experience” was held in Kaunas, Lithuania. The conference was initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Association of Local Authorities of Lithuania, and organised in cooperation with the Nordic Council of Ministers, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), municipal authorities from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. • Lithuania recognized the crucial role of civil society and encouraged inclusive participation of non-governmental women organizations, particularly in fighting sexual and gender-based violence and trafficking in women. For this task in particular, Lithuania has facilitated to experts’ discussions on international measures and mechanisms - an International workshop “Trafficking in Human Beings in the Context of Global Migration: National, Regional and International Aspects” was held in June 2018, in Vilnius. The event was organised in cooperation with the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), UN-Women, International Labour Organisation (ILO), International Organisation for Migration (IOM), World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), European Commission. Vilnius conference served a food-for-thought role for drafting a new General Recommendation of the CEDAW. • In 2018 Lithuania made a voluntarily contribution to the UN Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund (EUR 20,000).