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Short Summary
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| Title |
Millennium Development Goals, National Reports:
A Look Through a Gender Lens |
| Author |
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) |
| Publication
Date |
May 2003 |
| Publisher |
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) |
| Donor |
UNDP |
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Short Summary |
A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG)
country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately
mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal
5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based
language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women
feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims. This
is further confirmed by their absence under Goal 7 (environment) and
Goal 8 (development cooperation). Particular weaknesses of the reports
include a lack of understanding of how gender intersects with other
inequalities such as class, race and ethnicity; and a lack of sex-disaggregated
data on the indicators. Good practice is, however, identified. In
the Mozambique and Vietnam reports, for example, a gendered analyses
of poverty is included, and the Albanian report highlights constitutional
and legal provisions for women's reproductive rights beyond maternal
mortality. Recommendations to make gender perspectives central to
the MDGs include the incorporation of disaggregated data and qualitative
information on gender issues across all goals. |
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