En Route to Equality - A Gender Review of National MDG Reports
- Document number
- 1262
- Date
- 2005
- Title
- En Route to Equality - A Gender Review of National MDG Reports
- Author/publisher
- Bureau of Development Policy, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Socio-Economic transition, Discrimination, Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion,
- Summary
- The Millennium Declaration, adopted by the United Nations in September 2000, commits the international community and member states of the UN to the achievement of eight major developmental goals - the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).‘Gender equality and empowerment of women’ – Goal 3 of the Millennium Development Goals - is at the core of all the MDGs, from improving health and fighting disease, to reducing poverty and mitigating hunger, expanding education and lowering child mortality, increasing access to safe water, and ensuring environmental sustainability. This report documents the findings of a gender review of national MDG reports and covers all the national reports from developing countries published up to December 2004. This includes 78 reports in English, French and Spanish – 22 reports from Africa, seven from the Arab region, 10 from the Asia-Pacific region, from Central Europe and the CIS, and nine from Latin America. There has been no attempt at sampling - all the reports available upto December 2004 were scanned. The 13 reports covered in the pilot scan have also been included in the analysis. In cases where a country included in the pilot study has published a subsequent national report, the new report has also been included in the present scan. Four reports from developed countries have also been scanned as a part of this exercise. The scanning exercise identified and recorded the extent to which gender equality concerns are reflected in the reports, using the following parameters for tracking.
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