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Author: Naila Kabeer
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780850927528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the issue of gender inequality through the lens of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first one of halving world poverty by 2015.
Author: Markus Kaltenborn
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 3030304698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role of private actors. Each aspect is addressed from a more human rights-focused angle and a development-policy angle. This allows comparisons between the different approaches but also seeks to close gaps which would remain if only one perspective would be at the center of the discussions. Specifically, the book shows the strong connections between human rights and the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Already the preamble of this document explicitly states that "the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ... seek to realise the human rights of all". Moreover, several goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda correspond to already existing individual human rights obligations. The contributions of this volume therefore also address how the implementation of human rights and SDGs can reinforce each other, but also point to critical shortcomings of the different approaches.
Author: Sheila Aikman
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780855985295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book combines analysis of policy and empirically based studies on gender, education, and development.
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0821369202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 FIAS Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment report, this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens.
Author: Raquel Fernández
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1513571168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal framework reforms, policies to promote equal access, and efforts to tackle entrenched social norms. These need to be set in the context of arising new trends such as digitalization, climate change, as well as shocks such as pandemics.
Author: United Nations Publications
Publisher:
Published: 2018-01-15
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9789211013689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.
Author: Awortwi, Nicholas
Publisher: OSSREA
Published: 2016-06-13
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9994455826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases; and the book presents resulting lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda. The studies are against the background that in September 2000, world leaders from 189 countries, including 147 Heads of State, gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to consider the challenges of the new millennium. They adopted the Millennium Declaration, which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization: UN 2000 (A/RES/55/2). The leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that conditions of extreme poverty are eradicated wherever they existed. To realise this declaration, the UN established eight MDGs to be achieved by 2015. The goals were broken down into 18 concrete targets and 48 indicators to track progresses in implementation. For the years lost 2000, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been striving to achieve the goals. So far, some have achieved some of the goals, and the results toward the rest of the goals are also by and large positive, though off-target.
Author: Caroline Sweetman
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780855985509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and suggests ways of strengthening the approach by using key insights and approaches associated with the struggle to establish and uphold the rights of women.
Author: United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication sets out a human rights approach to the MDGs,... primarily to outline a clean analysis for the development sector, indentifying entry points at the policy level as well as for country-level programming and advocacy." -- P. vii.
Author: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2017-09-27
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9213627335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication is the first Asia-Pacific report that comprehensively maps out the intersections between gender and environment at the levels of household, work, community and policy. It examines gender concerns in the spheres of food security, agriculture, energy, water, fisheries and forestry, and identifies strategic entry points for policy interventions. Based on a grounded study of the reality in the Asia-Pacific region, this report puts together good practices and policy lessons that could be capitalized by policymakers to advance the agenda of sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
