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Gender Equality in the Post 2015 Agenda - from MDGs to SDGs

Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC. Gender Equality in the Post 2015 Agenda - from MDGs to SDGs. Ursula Keller Senior Gender Policy Advisor , SDC. Sustainable Development Goals. Gender 2015 : MDGs, Beijing Plan of Action,

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Gender Equality in the Post 2015 Agenda - from MDGs to SDGs

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  1. Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFASwiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC Gender Equality in the Post 2015 Agenda- from MDGs to SDGs Ursula Keller Senior Gender PolicyAdvisor, SDC

  2. Sustainable Development Goals • Gender 2015: MDGs, Beijing Plan of Action, UNSCR 1325 • SDGs: Universal agenda • Social dimension • Economic dimension • Environmental dimension • Process: • National consultations • Open Working Group • Intergovernmental negotiations

  3. The MDG 3 on Women’sEmpowerment • Visibility: Women’s Empowerment on the Development Agenda • Narrow focus on women’s education (target) • Missing: root causes of discrimination, violence against women, economic dimension

  4. Gender Equality Post 2015 • Learning from the MDGs: addressing root causes and structural inequalities • Transformative, respecting human rights of women, accountability mechanisms • Twin track approach: a gender stand-alone goal and gender-specific targets and indicators in all other development → What issues in the stand-alone goal, what in other goals/transversal?

  5. EqualEconomicOpportunities Swiss Position on a Gender Stand-alone Goal Achieve Gender Equality, Realize Women’s Human Rights and Empower Women and Girls Freedom from VAWG in all its forms EqualParticipation & Leadership • Ensure equal access to, control and ownership of assets and natural and other productive resources • End VAWG in all its forms and ensure prevention through transforming gender stereotypes, discriminatory social norms and laws • Ensure women’s full and equal participation & leadership at all levels of decision-making in the public and private spheres • Ensure the availability of gender disaggregated data, strengthen gender capacities to ensure gender-responsive policy making, including gender responsive budgeting • Ensure women’s equal access to employment and decent work and women’s right at work including equal payment • Ensure protection and response, including access to comprehensive support services and justice • Eliminate harmful practices, incl. early or forced marriage, FGM and honor crimes • Ensure equal access toand promote universal social protection and value, reduce and redistribute the unpaid care work • Promote women’s collective action • Eliminate sexual and gender-based violence in conflict and disaster and ensure women’s full and effective participation in conflict  prevention, peace processes and post-conflict reconstruction

  6. Open Working Group – Focus Area 5 (May 2014) By 2030 end all forms of discrimination against women of all ages By 2030 reduce the burden of unpaid care work By 2030 ensure equal access to and control of assets & resources, including natural resources management By 2030 ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights By 2030 end violence against girls and women in all its forms Ensure equal participation and leadership of women in decision-making in public & private institutions By 2030 ensure equal access to education at all levels Promoting the availability of gender disaggregated data to improve gender equality policies, including gender sensitive budgeting By 2030 ensure equal employment opportunities for women & equal pay for equal work By 2030 end child, early and forced marriage

  7. Issuesanddebates Consensus • Ending all formsofdiscrimination • Ending VAWG • Access toeducation • Equalemployment • Equalparticiaption & leadership Contestedissues • Equalaccessto assest andnaturalresources (land) • Harmfulpractices / earlyandforcedmarriage • Unpaid care work • Sexual andreproductivehealthandrights (SRHR)

  8. Why is the post 2015 framework important to our work? Multilateral Processes: • Report of OWG in Summer 2014: first outline of new development framework with concrete targets • Basis for intergovernmental negotiations • Financing National Processes: • Localizing the new framework: creating ownership, agenda setting, relevant national indicators (on gender equality) • Mobilising for participative and inclusive processes • Implementation of the new (gender) agenda: monitoring and accountability mechanisms What is the role of SDC offices? What are key topics for your office?

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