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Mind the Gap Women’s realities Policy aims & Development goals

Mind the Gap Women’s realities Policy aims & Development goals. Meena Shivdas. MDGs. Poverty and hunger Education Gender equality & women’s empowerment Child mortality Maternal health HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis Environment sustainability Global partnership.

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Mind the Gap Women’s realities Policy aims & Development goals

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  1. Mind the Gap Women’s realities Policy aims & Development goals Meena Shivdas

  2. MDGs • Poverty and hunger • Education • Gender equality & women’s empowerment • Child mortality • Maternal health • HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis • Environment sustainability • Global partnership

  3. MDGs: Taking Stock • Uneven pace of progress • Number of people living in extreme poverty halved • Hunger reduction target within reach • Two billion people have gained access to improved drinking water

  4. MDGs: Taking Stock • HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis targets – impressive • Treatment for tuberculosis saved more than 20 million lives between 1995 and 2011 • Good progress in elimination of gender gaps in primary school enrolment • Socio-cultural factors continue to affect retention of girls at school

  5. MDGs: Taking Stock • Targets on women’s paid employment and political representation performing poorly • Maternal mortality targets furthest away from reach • 99 per cent of maternal deaths occur in developing countries - the largest health-related disparity between high and low income countries

  6. MDGs: Taking Stock • Despite significant progress, 19,000 children under 5 still died every day in 2011 • Nearly 57 million children are still out of school, concentrated in two regions, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

  7. Where are the Women? • Women & the culture of silence • disappearing numbers in bride-burning in India • The missing South African woman • The invisible unpaid HIV carers How do we address policy silence?

  8. Breaking the silence with women’s self-help groups • Story of Kalanjiam Foundation’s health insurance for poor, marginalised communities • pre-literate, poor and ‘subordinate’ rural women show the way

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