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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More information about the 2030 Agenda process, access here
HLPF 2017: Buki Williams’s QA Response on “SDG 5”
"Achieving gender equality must benefit all women and girls. We must recognize that women and girls are not a homogenous group, gender is not a binary and as such women in all their diversity and [...]
HLPF 2017: Esther Kimani’s QA Response on “Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for all at all Ages”
"We cannot achieve the SDGs without a focus on addressing the universal health and rights of all people, particularly women, with a special focus on girls, adolescents, young women and older women [...]
HLPF Session: “Review of SDGs implementation: SDG 5”
Nalini Singh (Executive Director, Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM), representative of Women's Major Group) is one of the Lead discussants during the HLPF session: "Review of SDGs implementation [...]
HLPF Thematic Review: “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world: Multi-stakeholder perspectives”
Luisa Emilia Reyes Zuñiga (Co-Chair of the Major Groups and other Stakeholders HLPF Coordination Mechanism; Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia) and the WMG Latin America and Caribbean [...]
HLPF Session: “Review of SDGs implementation: SDG 2”
The Review of SDGs implementation: SDG 2 Session will take place on Tuesday, 11 July, from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, at the Conference Room 4, UNHQ. Meena Bilgi (Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture [...]
Save the Date: Side Event “The Experience of Women’s Groups in VNRs”
The Women's Major Group, the Fundacion para Estudio e Investigacion de la Mujer and Equidad invites you to join us at this side event. Come along to hear about the VNR Process experience from dive [...]
HLPF 2017: Sai Racherla’s QA Response to “Implementation and Regional and Sub-regional levels”
"The 2030 agenda for sustainable development is well into its implementation, and it is clear from the presentations made by panelists , that processes at sub-regional and regional levels are crit [...]
HLPF 2017: Viva Tatawaqa’s Opening Session Intervention on “Where are we in year two of implementation of the 2030 Agenda?”
"[The HLPF] is where we should ensure that the roles of multiple actors, but particularly those of communities, social movements and civil society are clearly and substantively reflected in the Mi [...]
Women’s Major Group Participation at the High-level Politica Forum Opening & Session 1
The opening session "Where are we in year two of implementation of the 2030 Agenda?" is going to be hold at the Conference Room 4, UNHQ, 10th July, from 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM. Vivania Ditukana Tatawa [...]
Women’s Major Group and High-level Political Forum Strategy Meeting
The Women's Major Group invites you to join our Strategy Meeting. Date: July 9 Time: 3:30-7:30 PM. Venue: Marriott Residence Inn on East 48th st. [...]