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    Powerful Synergies: Gender Equality, Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability | UNDP

    United Nations Development Programme, 2013
    At the recent United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the international community acknowledged that gender equality and sustainable development are intrinsically linked.
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    Green Jobs and Women Workers: Employment, Equity, Equality

    2009
    How can the green economy drive equitable, gender sensitive growth?  The green job phenomenon is being driven by governments in pursuit of environmentally sensitive economic growth with greening strategies proposed as a solution to both economic downturn and climate change. Millions of green jobs will be created worldwide in the next twenty years.
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    Unpaid care work and empowerment of women and girls

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2014
    How do care concerns becomes more visible on domestic policy agendas? What factors lead to care-sensitive social policies? Care is a social good that underpins all development however it is all too often invisible in policy and programming, amongst donors and in budgeting.
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    Gender & Land – Implications for Sustainable Development A working paper for development practitioners

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, 2014
    Less than 2% of the land available worldwide is owned by women. Why is the issue of land so gendered? What approaches and lessons learned can development professionals utilise to address the issue of gender and land? Data demonstrates a glaring gender gap in land holdings in all regions of the world. This is regardless of the fact that women produce 60% to 80% of food in developing countries.
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    Sustainable Development from a Gender Perspective: a Glossary

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2014
    Can there be sustainable development without gender equality? Too often sustainable development is still seen primarily as environmental sustainability. This narrow approach oversees some complex social, economic and ecological dimensions without adequately acknowledging gender concerns.
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    Are Women the Key to Sustainable Development?

    Boston University Frederick Pardee Center for the study of the longer-range future, 2010
    Progress in achieving the sustainable development goals has been very slow, so has been progress in achieving gender equality. Is there a link between these two trends? The three pillars of sustainable development - social, environment and economic – are also relevant to discussions of gender equality.
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    United Nations global gender statistics programme: minimum set of gender indicators

    United Nations, 2014
    Following the recommendations by the United Nations Statistical Commission, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics identified a minimum set of gender indicators composed of 52 quantitative indicators, and 11 qualitative indicators covering national norms and laws on gender equality.
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    Open Working Group proposal for Sustainable Development Goals

    2014
    The 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.
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    Gender Inequality Index

    United Nations Development Programme, 2014
    The Gender Inequality Index (GII), produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development: reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and o
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    The Millennium Development Goals report gender chart 2014

    United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2014
    This 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.

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