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Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls: 2014 Commission on the Status of Women Agreed Conclusions
UN Women, 2014The 58th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) in 2014 reached a momentous global consensus on actions needed to accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for women and girls.DocumentWomen's rights and the post-2015 development framework: an advocacy guide
Womankind, 2014This Womankind Worldwide advocacy guide is aimed towards all those working to ensure women’s rights and gender equality are central to the outcomes of the negotiations on the post-2015 development framework, including women’s rights and civil society organisations.DocumentUnpaid care: a priority for the post-2015 development goals and beyond
United Kingdom Gender and Development Network, 2014Having been consistently ignored and taken for granted in public policy and development efforts, it appears that discussion of the crucial issue of unpaid care work is finally gaining traction.DocumentOpen Working Group proposal for Sustainable Development Goals
2014The outcome document of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO+20) set out a mandate to establish an open working group to develop a set of sustainable development goals that should be coherent with, and integrated into, the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015.DocumentOxfam minimum standards for gender in emergencies
Oxfam, 2014These minimum standards were originally developed for Oxfam staff to ensure a consistent approach to promoting gender equality in humanitarian preparedness and response programming. They are provided here as a tool for humanitarian programme practitioners, and as part of Oxfam’s commitment to transparency, sharing good practice and improving quality across the sector.DocumentA transformative stand-alone goal on achieving gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment: imperatives and key components
UN Women, 2013The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have played a critical role in mobilising integrated international action on global poverty issues, including recognition in the Millennium Declaration that inequality and discrimination based on gender plays a significant factor undermining progress in many contexts.DocumentGender goals, targets and indicators for sustainable development: problems and opportunities
Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, 2013While ground-breaking in their scope and ambition, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have also sparked controversy, not least in the choice of goals, targets, and indicators.DocumentThe 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.Pages