The
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a shared vision
for development which provide concrete, time-bound and quantitative
targets for action with the UNESCAP region and globally.
Goal 3 of the MDGs, which recognizes the promotion of gender
equality and empowerment of women, explicitly links to the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Gender equality
is important not only as an MDG goal in itself, but also
is a fundamental pillar in achieving all of the goals. Within
the UNESCAP region, MDG reporting mechanisms monitor and
track key indicators of women’s empowerment as well
as facilitate systematic policy dialogue on critical development
challenges; in turn, strengthening strategies to translate
commitments into actual results on the ground.
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New Report: Pursuing Gender Equality through the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
Gender and Development Discussion Paper Series
No. 13:
Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and the Millennium
Development Goals: Promoting Women’s Capabilities
and Participation, 2003
This publication is based on a keynote presentation
by Professor Naila Kabeer, from the Institute of
Development Studies, Sussex to the first session
of UNESCAP’s Committee on Emerging Social
Issues, Bangkok, 4 September 2003. The author discusses
why gender analysis is relevant to all aspects of
economic and the social development and more specifically
to the core MDG of halving world poverty by 2015.
Ms. Kabeer highlights a number of considerations
that need to be explicitly integrated into gender-aware
analyses and approaches to achieving the MDGs.
Promoting the Millennium Development Goals in
Asia and the Pacific
This 116-page, recently published report is a UN
publication on how to promote the MDGs in Asia and
the Pacific, while eradicating poverty.
Gender Equality and The Millennium Development
Goals, World Bank: 2003
This booklet produced by the World Bank Gender and
Development Group serves as a primary resource for
understanding gender and the MDGs. The chapters
cover gender and the poverty, education, health
and nutrition, and environment goals of the MDGs.
The document suggests that a gender equality perspective
will facilitate attaining the MDGs and will serve
as a path towards achieving other goals.
Millennium Development Goals: National Reports
A Look Through a Gender Lens, UNDP: 2003.
This reviews a selection of MDG reports to assess
the extent to which gender concerns and perspectives
have been mainstreamed under various goals.
Monitoring the MDGs Through a Gender Lens in South
Asia, UNDP: 2003
This paper looks at the progress of engendering
MDGs throughout South Asia as well as offers a number
of suggestions of entry points for the subject area.
Gender Equality and the Millennium Development
Goals Website
New Report: Pursuing Gender Equality through the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific