JRC Statistical Audit of the Equal Measures 2030 SDG Gender Index
JRC Statistical Audit of the Equal Measures 2030 SDG Gender Index

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Published: 2019

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ISBN-13: 9789276085645

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In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. All 193 United Nations (UN) member states have committed to achieving sustainable development across its three dimensions –economic, social, and environmental– in a balanced and integrated manner. Gender equality is embedded in every goal and there is increasing demand for gender-related data. Equal Measures 2030 developed the SDG Gender Index to help girls’ and women’s movements measure progress on the gender equality aspects of the majority of the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDG Gender Index is a tool that gender advocates can use to frame their influencing on the gender equality elements of the SDGs. The pilot version of the EM2030 SDG Gender Index launched on 2018, focused in six countries and the current 2019 version is the first global version including 129 countries. The statistical audit presented here was performed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, and it aims to contribute to ensuring the transparency and reliability of the EM2030 SDG Gender Index 2019. It should enable policymakers to derive more accurate and meaningful conclusions, and to potentially guide choices on priority setting and policy formulation. The present JRC audit delves into data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results. The SDG Gender Index represents a very comprehensive index to date on gender equality aligned to the SDGs and it is a remarkable effort of synthetizing the 14 gender related goals into a single measure. The index ranks are robust, tested to various different assumptions, thus they allow for meaningful conclusions to be drawn.

JRC Statistical Audit of the Equal Measures 2030 SDG Gender Index 2022
JRC Statistical Audit of the Equal Measures 2030 SDG Gender Index 2022

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Published: 2022

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ISBN-13: 9789276493518

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The SDG Gender Index of Equal Measures 2030 is a multidimensional index that aligns to the normative framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and covers 56 gender issues in 14 of the 17 global goals in 144 countries across five regions of the world. The European Commission's Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra was invited by the developers to audit the SDG Gender Index for the second time, following the statistical audit performed in the first edition of the Index. JRC-COIN aims to help ensure the transparency of the Index methodology and the reliability of its results. This JRC-COIN audit focuses on data quality, the statistical soundness of the multi-level structure of the Index, and the impact of key modelling assumptions on the results. The analysis suggests that meaningful inferences can be drawn from the Index for the vast majority of countries. The SDG Gender Index (SDG-GI) is reliable and the framework has good statistical coherence. The Index's ranks are shown to be representative of a plurality of scenarios, and robust to some methodological changes and the pillar weights. Even though the SDG-GI has good statistical properties, JRC-COIN has made some suggestions for possible refinements.

JRC Statistical Audit of the Equal Measures 2030 SDG
JRC Statistical Audit of the Equal Measures 2030 SDG

Author: Eleni Papadimitriou

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Published: 2019

Total Pages: 26

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The Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Gender Index, launched as a pilot version with six countries in 2018, is a tool that gender advocates can use to frame their influencing on the gender equality elements of the SDGs. The 2019 version is the first global version including data of 129 countries. This audit delves into data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results to ensure the transparency and reliability of the Gender Index. The conceptual framework of the index covers 14 out of the 17 SDGs, with focus on the gender aspect: poverty, no hunger, health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, energy, work, industry, innovation and infrastructure, inequality, sustainability, climate, peace and justice, partnerships.

JRC Statistical Audit of the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Fashboards
JRC Statistical Audit of the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Fashboards

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Published: 2019

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ISBN-13: 9789276085607

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In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. All 193 United Nations member states have committed to achieve sustainable development across its three dimensions – economic, social, and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner. In order to assist countries in measuring their progress towards the achievement of the SDGs, Bertelsmann Stiftung and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) developed the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards (SDG Index) in 2016. Since then, the SDG Index has been annually updated and presently covers 162 countries. The European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) was invited by the SDSN to audit the 2019 edition of the SDG Index which will be launched on the sidelines of the 2019 United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The audit presented herein aims to contribute to ensuring the transparency of the SDG Index methodology and the reliability of the results. The report touches upon data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results. The fact that the SDGs are universal and highly diverse in nature makes the work of aggregating into a single number quite challenging from a statistical point of view. Nevertheless, the SDG Index is a remarkable effort of synthetizing the 17 SDGs into a single measure. The index ranks are robust enough, allowing meaningful conclusions to be drawn from the index.

JRC Statistical Audit of the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards
JRC Statistical Audit of the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards

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Published: 2019

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ISBN-13: 9789276089957

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In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. All 193 United Nations member states have committed to achieve sustainable development across its three dimensions – economic, social, and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner. In order to assist countries in measuring their progress towards the achievement of the SDGs, Bertelsmann Stiftung and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) developed the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards (SDG Index) in 2016. Since then, the SDG Index has been annually updated and presently covers 162 countries. The European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) was invited by the SDSN to audit the 2019 edition of the SDG Index which will be launched on the sidelines of the 2019 United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The audit presented herein aims to contribute to ensuring the transparency of the SDG Index methodology and the reliability of the results. The report touches upon data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results. The fact that the SDGs are universal and highly diverse in nature makes the work of aggregating into a single number quite challenging from a statistical point of view. Nevertheless, the SDG Index is a remarkable effort of synthetizing the 17 SDGs into a single measure. The index ranks are robust enough, allowing meaningful conclusions to be drawn from the index.

Harnessing the Power of Data for Gender Equality
Harnessing the Power of Data for Gender Equality

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Published: 2019

Total Pages: 62

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Presentation of the 2019 Equal Measures 2030 SDG Gender Index, a tool available to explore the state of gender equality across129 countries. The Gender Index includes 51 indicators across 14 of the 17 official Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The indicators are both gender-specific and gender-nonspecific, which have a disproportionate effect on girls and women. The results of the index show that, with just 11 years to go until 2030, nearly 40 percent of the world's girls and women - 1.4 billion - live in countries failing on gender equality. Overall the index finds that the world is furthest behind on gender equality issues related to public finance and better gender data (SDG 17), climate change (SDG 13), gender equality in industry and innovation (SDG 9), and the standalone gender equality goal (SDG 5).

JRC Statistical Audit of the 2020 Gender Equality Index
JRC Statistical Audit of the 2020 Gender Equality Index

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Published: 2020

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ISBN-13: 9789276245070

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The 2020 Gender Equality Index ranks the 27 EU member states and the UK on 31 performance indicators measuring gender equalities in the six domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power, health and additionaly the domain of violence, as well as intersecting inequalities. By providing relevant statistics, data and measures, all essential components for evidence-based policymaking and successful gender mainstreaming, it supports the assessment of policy outcomes on women and men. Since 2013 the Gender Equality Index is released biannually by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) while from 2019 and on, the releases will be on annual basis. The European Commission's Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) was invited by the European Institute for Gender Equality to audit the 2020 edition of the index. The statistical audit presented herein aims to contribute to ensuring the transparency of the methodology and the reliability of the results. The report touches upon data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results. The analysis suggests that meaningful inferences can be drawn from the Gender Equality Index. It confirms that the 2020 Index meets the quality standards for statistical soundness and acknowledges it as a reliable composite indicator to measure gender equality in the European Union.

Sustainable Development Report 2021
Sustainable Development Report 2021

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1009098918

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Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.

Women, Business and the Law
Women, Business and the Law

Author: The World Bank

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1472906454

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Women perform 66% of the world's work, produce 50% of the food, but earn 10% of the income and own 1% of the property. To shed light on why this grim statistic still holds true, Women, Business and the Law aims to examine legal differentiations on the basis of gender in 143 of the world's economies. Women, Business and the Law tracks governments' actions to expand economic opportunities for women across six key areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit and going to court. The report uncovers legal differentiations for women and married versus unmarried women such as being able to register a business, open a bank account and work at night. These issues are of fundamental importance. When, because of tradition, social taboos or simple prejudice, half of the world's population is prevented from making its contribution to the life of a nation, the economy will suffer. The empirical evidence does suggest that, slowly but surely, governments are making progress in expanding opportunities for women. It is our hope that data presented in Women, Business and the Law will both facilitate research on linkages between legal differentiation and outcomes for women, and promote better informed policy choices on what governments can do to expand opportunities for women.

Sustainable Development in the European Union
Sustainable Development in the European Union

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Published: 2016

Total Pages: 168

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"This Eurostat publication, entitled "Sustainable development in the European Union - A statistical glance from the viewpoint of the UN Sustainable Development Goals", provides an overview of the current situation of the EU and its Member States on sustainable development in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This publication follows a strictly descriptive approach, presenting a purely statistical picture based on facts and figures. It provides rather a snapshot of the starting position of the EU and its Member States and is not intended as a regular SDG monitoring exercise at EU level. The analysis in this publication is based on a limited number of indicators, which are relevant to the EU perspective and capture the broader objective and ambition of each SDG. Each goal is analysed through two to four indicators. In total, 51 indicators are presented in the report, mainly obtained from the European Statistical System and disseminated by Eurostat. The analysis of Member States' performance and international comparisons focus on the most recent year for each indicator. EU-28 trends over time are also presented, covering the period from 2000 or 2002 up to the most recent year for which data are available (2014 or 2015)."--Back cover.