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Women Development Issues in SDG and MDG

2019

This paper sets out to capture the main achievements and results of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. Generally, Women Development means improve the quality of live of women, put them into decision making process, ensure equal rights over basic needs and create job opportunity, social security etc.

WOMEN AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

On 25 September September, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the agreed framework for international development. It is the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, unlike the MDGs, the 2030 Agenda presents a much wider scope by deliberately and more fully incorporating economic and environmental sustainability, as well as the aspiration of many countries for peaceful and inclusive societies. The agenda also applies to all countries rather than just the developing countries. In this regard, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is more ambitious envisaging the eradication of poverty, the systematic tack-ling of climate change and building peaceful, resilient, equitable and inclusive societies. The Agenda, unlike the MDGs, has a stand-alone Goal on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. In addition, there are gender equality targets in other Goals, and a more consistent call for sex disaggregation of data across many indicators. UN Women Communications and Advocacy Section in New York conducted an analysis of what the 17 SDGs adopted mean to women in order to inform strategic interventions building on the efforts of localization at country and regional levels. This analysis has been collated in this publication and linked to UN Women Eastern and Southern Africa Regional and Country Office priorities. Concrete examples programming interventions by UN Women country offices in the region are pro led in relation to specific SDGs and how those streams of interventions could lead to localization efforts. This has been done through an analysis of all annual reports submitted by regional/ multi/country offices to identify work streams feeding into the localization of sustainable development goals. The team comprising UN Women’s consultant on SDGs, Knowledge Management and Research Specialist and UN Women’s Regional Communications Assistant, under the leadership of the Deputy Regional Director, linked to existing analysis provided by UN Women on Women and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The publication showcases how women are affected by each of the 17 proposed SDGs, as well as how women and girls can — and will — be key to achieving each of these goals. Data and stories of the impact of each SDG on women and girls is illustrated. UN Women Eastern and Southern Africa region’s efforts and interventions as they relate to SDGs are also discussed under each SDG, including our programmes, intergovernmental work and advocacy for policy change. This publication is intended to help countries in Eastern and Southern Africa understand and appreciate the linkages between SDGs and women and girls in their localization efforts and in establishing various partnerships and networks that feed into the vision of localizing SDGs at the country and regional levels.

GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL

International Journal of Advanced Research, 2020

“Women have a vital role in environmental management and development. Their full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development.” (Principle 20, Rio Declaration). Sustainable development depends on an equitable distribution of resources and it cannot be achieved without gender equality. Almost there is a dual rationale for prompting gender equality. Firstly, that equality between women and men - equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities - is a matter of human rights and social justice. And secondly, that greater equality between women and men is also a precondition for development. Women empowerment is a key factor for achieving sustainability. Sustainable development and sustainability have various meaning. Sometimes it may be equitable distribution of resources and opportunities or sometimes it may be defined as understanding the interconnections among economy, development and society. Basically, it is based on the principle of democracy and the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights. It cannot exist without equality in the distributional process. UN member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end the poverty, fight inequality is a cross-cutting issue, and unless addressed in multi dimensional way, gender equality will not become a reality. Every woman’s contribution to sustainable development must be recognized. They have a strong role in the education and most essential socializing their children, including teaching among them care and responsibility. The present paper is an attempt to analyze the essentials of women contributions in sustainable development as shareholders and beneficiaries in India.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs) AND GENDER EQUALITY

Gender Equality, 2018

ABSTRACK Gender equality is an important issue for various developing countries, one of which is Indonesia. Addressing gender equality issues must be understood and understood as a serious problem. Gender equality is very important because it can make the country better. In the SDGs, gender equality is stated as the 5th point. This stated that, the world agreed to achieve gender equality in any form throughout the world, including Indonesia.

Sustainable Development Goal: Gender Equality for Women’s Empowerment and Human Rights

International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH

Empowerment of women and girls is to be realized through sustainable development. Sustainable development depends on an equitable distribution of resources and it cannot be achieved without gender equality. Gender Equity is the process of allocating resources, programs, and decision making fairly to both males and females without any discrimination on the basis of sex…and addressing any imbalances in the benefits available to males and females. Diane Elson, an adviser to UN Women, argues in her contribution that "the disproportionate responsibility that women bear for carrying out unpaid work is an important constraint on their capacity to realize their rights... Both women and men need time to care for their families and communities, and time free from such care." Women’s empowerment is a key factor for achieving sustainability. Sustainable development and sustainability have various meaning .Sometime it may be equitable distribution of resources and opportunities or liv...

Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2018

This chapter considers key factors shaping the pursuit of gender equality and women's empowerment under the SDGs. In so doing, it examines some of the most significant concerns that may militate against the goals achieving these ends. These include, the legacy of the MDGs regime and in particular the limitations that have become apparent during its operation in progressing societal change through the goals, targets, and indicators, oriented approach pioneered therein and pursued in the successor SDG regime. The chapter also discusses the tensions inherent in the adoption of a discrete gender goal on the one hand and integration of gender under other goals on the other. The principal advantage of a discrete gender goal lies in according 'headline' status to the issue; integration in other goals however offers the potential to 'mainstream' gender coverage key substantive areas. The concomitant disadvantages of these approaches are potentially 'siloing' gender issues and dilution of focus respectively. The use of indicators and their limitations, particularly in light of current levels of information and communications technology and data challenges are interrogated. The chapter concludes by examining the implications of the international community's broader evasion of the interface between goals regimes and the global human rights agenda for gender issues. Discussion centres around the fact that, as gender concerns now enjoy strong coverage in human rights law along with the legal status that this invokes, divorcing the SDGs regime from such protection stands to act to the particular disadvantage of women, negating a key route to securing accountability for the impacts of state action/inaction on the ground.

Promoting gender equality across the sustainable development goals

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Gender issues, and gender equality in particular, can be regarded as cross-cutting issues in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), even though it is unclear how they are taken into account. This study addresses this information gap by performing an assessment of the emphasis on gender issues across all the other 16 SDGs, in addition to SDG5, through a literature review and case study analysis, the basis for the newly developed framework, highlighting specific actions associated to each SDG. The 13 countries addressed in the 16 case studies include China, India, or Australia and illustrate the inclusion of SDG5 into the SDGs. Using an SDG matrix, the SDG targets are analysed. Those where an emphasis on gender equality is important in allowing them to be achieved are listed. The novelty of our approach resides in offering an in-depth analysis of how gender issues interact with the other SDGs, proposing a new analysis framework clearly identifying SDGs 1, 4, 1...

Transformative Equality: Making the Sustainable Development Goals Work for Women

Ethics & International Affairs, 2016

It is generally agreed by most observers that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have fallen short of achieving gender equality and women's empowerment. Today, women continue to be more likely than men to live in poverty, and more than 18 million girls in sub-Saharan Africa are out of school. One of the crucial reasons for the failure of the MDGs in relation to women was their inability to address the deeply entrenched and interlocking factors that perpetuate women's disadvantage. The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as articulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, constitute an improvement over the MDGs. Goal 5, which enshrines the stand-alone goal on gender equality, is comprised of nine specific targets, including the elimination of gender-based violence and access to reproductive health. In addition, gender equality is mainstreamed into numerous others goals. Given that the global community is now poised to implement the SDGs, the challenge is...

SDG 5: Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all Women and Girls

2019

The roots of SDG5 go as far back as the United Nations Conference on Women held in Mexico in 1975 and the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). From the mid-1970s, women entered the development agenda thanks to the continuous efforts of liberal feminist economists who promoted and brought visibility to women’s issues (Calkin, 2015). These efforts continued to be part of feminists’ agenda in the 1980s and 1990s and women’s rights remained on the international development agenda (Cornwall and Rivas, 2015). Many of these conversations and efforts to tackle women’s social and cultural precarious circumstances were later captured and systematised in the 2000-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aimed to provide a list of clear targets and to enact the work laid out by feminists since the 1970s. MDG3 in particular focused on “promot[ing] gender equality and empower[ing] women.” The 2015 United Nations Report on the MDGs highligh...

The Global Context: Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality

Business Against Intimate Partner Violence, 2019

The 2030 Development Agenda, adopted unanimously by the 193 United Nations (UN) member countries on September 25, 2015, is a universal call to action for transforming the world to one that is free from poverty, inequality, violence, manmade natural disasters, and resource depletion for the current and future generations. The 2030 Agenda sets 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated Targets that represent a broad intergovernmental consensus on the world’s development priorities. The Goals were set through a participative process led by the UN, which included states, companies, civil society organizations, scientists, and experts over a period of 3 years. “Commitment to universal human rights” is depicted as the overarching normative and ethical framework for the SDGs.