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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WMG takes initiative for Major Group and Stakeholder mechanism for regional civil society engagement in the UNECE region process on Agenda 2030 and SDGs
The Women's Major Group has taken the initiative to start a process to institucionalize the participation of Major Groups and Stakeholders in the regional UNECE process of SDGs and Agenda 2030. For [...]
The role of the WMG in National Voluntary Reviews to HLPF: Lessons learned from 2016 and how we can engage for 2017
The first webinar about National Voluntary Reviews for Agenda 2030 shared lessons learned by Women’s Major Group members who followed their country’s reviews and reporting in 2016 at the High Leve [...]
CBD-COP13: Isis Alvarez & Simone Lovera’s Intervention on Nuevos Tiempos para Mujeres en Conservación de Biodiversidad
Ha quedado cada vez más claro, que sin la participación de todos los actores involucrados, no es posible alcanzar los diferentes objetivos, como es el caso de la conservación de la biodiversidad. L [...]
African Women of the WMG Call Recording
Access the video from the Women's Major Group Regional Call for Africa, hold by Priscilla Achakpa, Organizing Partner and the Executive Director of Women Environmental Programme (WEP) Nigeria. [...]
Special Webinar “One year after”: where are we with the implementation of the 2030 Agenda?
Access the presentation of the Special Webinar “One year after”: where are we with the implementation of the 2030 Agenda? presented by the Women's Major Group member Wardarina (Co-Chair of the Asi [...]
Save the date! Special Webinar – One year after: where are we with the implementation of the 2030 Agenda?
Join the Women's Major Group Member Wardarina (Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Regional CSO) and other specialists on the 2030 Agenda, on this Special Webinar. See the details below: Date: Tuesday, D [...]
IAEG-SDGs 2016 Report back: Marisa Viana’s Summary
Marisa Viana (RESURJ) compiled her summary on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 4th meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs), h [...]
Women’s Major Group COP22 Summary
"Members of the Women’s Major Group were active in Marrakesh at COP22, working to implement climate commitments and to make linkages to the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At [...]
ESCAP SDG Week: Understand key challenges for effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is promoting a week discussion to understand the key challenges for effective implementation of the Sustainable D [...]
COP 22: Tetet Lauron’s notes on Action, Action everywhere but nowhere
Expectations that this annual meeting of the world’s leaders will set the wheels into motion on the Paris Agreement (PA), last year’s landmark deal on climate do not seem likely as huge disagreemen [...]