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Published: 2019

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ISBN-13: 9789276085645

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.