Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals which all countries have committed to implement in an integrated and inclusive manner. The 2030 Agenda aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (SDG 5) through specific targets on eliminating gender based elimination, violence, harmful practices, and on ensuring that women and girls’ rights in all areas are upheld.
The 2030 Agenda recognizes the important role of civil society including Major Groups such as the Women’s Major Group. The Women’s Major Group for the 2030 Agenda, facilitates the participation of women’s rights and feminist organizations and movements in the policy process, linking the global to the national process, as well as ensuring coherent with the other UN women’s rights and other related processes. The Women’s Major Group is currently facilitated by 8 elected Organizing Partners (OPs).
The Women’s Major Group 2030, works through active working groups to provide input to the policy processes at all levels, and to ensure coherence and cooperate with the Women’s constituencies in other policy processes.
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HLPF 2018: Shaila Shahid as Lead Discussant, SDG 11, Cities
Ensuring girls’ and women’s participation and safety in cities requires a gender transformative approach to achieve systemic change. It includes empowering women and girls, designing future cities [...]
HLPF 2018: Isis Alvarez’s Intervention on Perspectives of LDCs, LLDCs and MICs
Women’s equal participation and leadership in decisions that affect them and their communities is a prerequisite for building resilient societies. Isis Alvarez (GFC, Colombia) delivered her com [...]
HLPF 2018: Amasai Jeke’s Intervenion on Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies: SIDS perspective
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HLPF 2018: Energy, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Women’s leadership in sustainable energy production can help influence policy and regulation to protect people, communities and the planet from contamination from open pit mining, strip mining, mo [...]
HLPF 2018: Nozipho Wright’s Review on SDG 7, Energy
The WMG, commend member states and development partners for work done so far to integrate gender issues in energy policies and programmes. Though it has taken almost 20 years to reach this minima [...]
HLPF 2018: Nathalie Seguin’s Review of SDG 6, Water and Sanitation
Women’s participation in decision making at local, national and global levels is essential to adopt a new vision of water management urgently needed to achieve water related SDGs. Standards for i [...]
WMG Webinar on SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Settlements
Tuesday 3 July, 9:30 AM, NY time. Register here for SDG11. [...]
WMG Webinar on SDG 12: Sustainable Consumption & Production Patterns
Monday 2 July, 11:00 AM, NY time. Register here for SDG12. [...]
WMG Webinar on SDG 7: Energy
Friday 29 June, 11:00 AM, NY time. Register here for SDG7. [...]
Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDG
The third annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) will take place on 5-6 June 2018. For the registration access here. [...]