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Short Summary
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| Title |
Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality and the
MDGs: A WEDO Information and Action Guide (English, Spanish, French,
and Portuguese) |
| Author |
Women’s Environment and Development Organization
(WEDO) |
| Publication
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March 2005 |
| Publisher |
Women’s Environment and Development Organization
(WEDO) |
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Short Summary |
How have women responded to the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs)? Gender equality and women's rights advocates are using
the MDGs as another avenue of engagement for monitoring the implementation
of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and other key international
policy agreements. This Information and Action Guide makes a goal-by-goal
case for gender equality to be seen as essential for achieving all
the MDGs not only as a goal in its own right. The MDG process offers
three main challenges to gender advocates: to ensure a gender-sensitive
approach to implementation at the national level, integrating gender
across all goals; to demand adequate resources and equitable global
economic policies that are consistent with social and environmental
needs; and to link the MDGs to other ongoing global and national policy
processes, particularly the 10 year review of the BPfA in 2005. In
the final section 'Bring back Beijing' it identifies 'Actions you
can take'. It focuses on two questions: how to engender targets and
indicators so that any discussions on attaining the MDGs can start
with an understanding of the different positions of women and men
in society; and how gender advocates can monitor government progress.
Other language versions are available at:
http://www.wedo.org/library.aspx?ResourceID=5
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