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The Millennium Development Goals report gender chart 2014
United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2014This special edition of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Gender Chart was produced for the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, March 2014. It presents sex-disaggregated data on each of the MDG goals (not simply that of MDG3 on gender equality) in a clear, concise format using simple data visualisation methods.DocumentThe power of numbers: a critical review of Millennium Development Goal targets for human development and human rights
Taylor and Francis Group, 2014The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were heralded as opening a new chapter in international development, and have led to the use of global goals and target-setting as a central instrument defining the international development agenda. Despite this increased importance, little is understood about how they influence policy priorities of key stakeholders, and their broader consequences.DocumentA review of national MDG reports from a gender perspective
UN Women, 2013This report from UN Women analyses the national reports documenting the progress and constraints in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The purpose of the analysis is to determine whether and how gender equality and women’s empowerment have been mainstreamed within the national strategies and programmes established to achieve the MDGs.DocumentGender, economic, social and ecological justice for sustainable development: A feminist declaration for post 2015
Post-2015 Women's Coalition, 2014This document was produced in February 2014 by a group of representatives from women’s organisations across the world. They met in New York in order to discuss shared vision and strategy for the future course of international development post-2015 – the target date of the Millennium Development Goals.DocumentNew actors, new money, new conversations: a mapping of recent initiatives for women and girls
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013Over the past several years, investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’ has become a favored strategy in development and philanthropy. This has precipitated a host of campaigns and initiatives, including new private-sector involvement, dedicated to supporting women and girls.DocumentWomen moving mountains: collective impact of the Dutch MDG3 fund
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013Through decades of collective and individual struggle, and determined, conscious design, the women’s rights movement has achieved unprecedented shifts in global perception to the notion of gender equality as a desirable goal.DocumentWatering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”DocumentA user’s guide to measuring gender-sensitive basic service delivery
UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009Gender, governance and basic services are inextricably linked. A functioning democratic system of governance enables people to express their needs through the political system, and ensures that the system responds appropriately to their needs. This Guide reviews the role of basic services in development and in relation to the Millennium Developmen Goals (MDGs).DocumentThe MDGs: Boon or Bane for Gender Equality and Women's Rights?
2005In this article, the author starts from a critical analysis of the third Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - promoting gender equality and women's autonomy.DocumentAccess to safe abortion: an essential strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals to improve maternal health, promote gender equality and reduce poverty
Millennium Project, 2007International leaders should support reforms of national laws on abortion in line with the commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, and with the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal mortality (the World Health Organization estimates that 13 percent of all maternal deaths globally are caused by unsafe abortion).Pages