{"id":1729,"date":"2019-01-16T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johannaomolofoundation.org\/Africa\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:16","slug":"leverage-gender-equality-to-achieve-the-broader-agenda-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/01\/16\/leverage-gender-equality-to-achieve-the-broader-agenda-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Leverage Gender Equality to Achieve the Broader Agenda 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the world marked the\u00a0Day of the Girl Child themed\u00a0\u201cWith Her: A Skilled Girl Force\u201d.\u00a0<\/i>The message by\u00a0UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres notes that multiple barriers including systematic discrimination pose a threat to today\u2019s 600 million adolescent girls- yet they are the largest generation in history with a vast source of ideas and solutions to key global challenges. Well, the global 2030 agenda presents us with a scorecard for evaluating our progress in empowering girls in pursuit of SDG 5 on Gender equality.<\/p>\n

Gender equality is key to addressing the unfinished business of the\u00a0Millennium Development Goals<\/a>\u00a0(MDGs)\u00a0and accelerating global development to Agenda 2030. A closer look at the SDGs actually reveals that many of targets complement SDG 5 and underscore the role gender plays in addressing stark economic, social and political disparities. 17 goals, 169 targets, 232 indicators with 54 indicators are gender specific, is the scope of the 2030 global development agenda. With 54 indicators in the agenda\u00a0both as a goal (SDG 5) but also as a vital component of achieving progress across all the other sustainable development goals, gender is an integral part of the global development agenda. SDG 5 address\u00a0challenges such as violence against women, gender wage gap difference, discriminatory laws, and rights. Well, it\u2019s a milestone, but will only be significant if it\u2019s realized. Fulfilling the 54 indicators is the best chance the world has in realizing the most pressing challenges of our time- conflict, climate change, economic crisis.<\/p>\n

Reflection\u00a0on the Current Gender Parity Scenario.<\/b><\/p>\n

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An examination of the SDGs through a gender lens reveals that women\u2019s equal participation contributes directly to multiple SDGs including; food security and nutrition (SDG 1 & 2<\/a>), health services and care (SDG 3<\/a>), Education (SDG 4<\/a>), Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 10,\u00a0Economic Growth and Development (SDG 8<\/a>), climate change (SDG 13<\/a>), community conservation and preservation of biodiversity (14<\/a>), peacebuilding (SDG 16).<\/p>\n

To many, it may sound a clich\u00e9 that \u201cIf you empower a woman you empower a nation\u201d but in reality, women are economic agents.\u00a0Women are key contributors to economies as producers of food, managers of natural resources, caretakers of children and the elderly, entrepreneurs and employees in businesses, and as significant contributors to building the resilience of communities to climate change and disaster.They are greatly responsible for securing food, water and energy and sustaining their families- which means that they are intricately linked to the environment. Since the availability of natural resources is being threatened by climate change, women who are disproportionately affected are as well active in adopting adaptive and mitigation strategies, making them unequivocal agents for SDGs 13 & 14.\u00a0A research by FAO\u00a0suggests that if women have the same access as men to productive and financial resources, education and services, and income opportunities, agricultural yields and output would increase and the number of poor and hungry people would be significantly reduced.<\/p>\n

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Women even play an important role in ensuring the realization of SDG 16- Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions. One prominent example was the recent peace negotiations in Colombia to end the civil war between the leftist paramilitary group FARC and the Colombian government. As women were severely affected by this conflict through displacement and sexual violence, it was a landmark that this was the first country to create a gender subcommittee in internal conflict negotiations. They also included a gender-focused section in the final agreement.\u00a0The executive director of U.N. Women\u00a0released a statement<\/a>\u00a0calling this \u201can opportunity to transform the status of\u00a0women in Colombian society<\/a>\u00a0through fundamental structural change.\u201d<\/p>\n

We have to recognize that society cannot develop \u2013 economically, politically, or socially \u2013 when half of its population is marginalized. A change of attitude that recognizes women and girls as equal partners and valuable contributors to sustainable development as opposed to \u201cbeneficiaries or \u201cvulnerable\u201d is a must to harvest their capacity to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the world marked the\u00a0Day of the Girl Child themed\u00a0\u201cWith Her: A Skilled Girl Force\u201d.\u00a0The message by\u00a0UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres notes that multiple barriers including systematic discrimination pose a threat…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}