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Short Summary
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| Title |
Proceedings of the International Workshop on
Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals |
| Author |
Gender and Development Group, World Bank (WB) |
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November 2003 |
| Publisher |
World Bank |
| Donor |
UN Interagency Network on Women and Gender Equality,
the OECD/DAC Network on Gender Equality, and the Multilateral Development
Bank Working Group on Gender |
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Short Summary |
This workshop brought together international
development stakeholders to explore various aspects of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG) debate. The MDGs are eight goals which set
a development agenda to be achieved by 2015. Issues discussed include
strategies for: integrating a gender perspective into national planning
policies (such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budgets);
increased accountability to making strategies to implement the MDGs
more gender-sensitive; and for mobilising grassroots support to integrate
a gender perspective into the MDGs. An example of the latter is UNDP
and JICA's successful municipal workshops aimed at generating local
support for MDG implementation among key local actors. These lead
to plans to establish a municipal centre for women and to use the
MDGs to raise local awareness on gender inequalities. Follow-up actions
proposed by the workshop include establishing incentives for national
governments to focus on gender in the MDGs, consulting women's and
NGO groups when preparing national MDG progress reports and engendering
all MDG goals through adding gender-specific indicators by 2005. |
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