Expert Group Meeting: Women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development

In preparation for the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2016, UN Women convened an expert group meeting on ‘Women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development’ with a particular focus on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for realizing substantive gender equality, women’s rights and empowerment, from 2-4 November 2015 in New York, USA.

More information

• Report
• Concept note
• Agenda
• Participants

Background papers

• Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont / SOAS, University of London
  Financing for Gender Equality in the Context of the SDGs
• Tessa Khan, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APFWLD)
  Delivering Development Justice? Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Expert papers

• Krishanti Dharmaraj, Rutgers Center for Women’s Global Leadership
  Post 2015 Women’s Coalition
• Patricia Miranda, Fundación Jubileo Bolivia / Latindadd (Latin American Network on Debt, Development and Rights)
  Financing and Investment for SDGs and Women Equity
• Barbara Adams, Global Policy Forum
  Fit for whose purpose? Private funding and corporate influence in the United Nations
• Marieke Koning, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
  Organising for Women’s Social and Economic Empowerment by 2030
• Michaela Bergman, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
  MDB’s investments and operations are conducive to women’s economic empowerment
• Ritah Muyambo, World YWCA
  Young Women and Girls at the Center of Development: An intergenerational perspective for leaping into the future

Informational papers

• Ingrid FitzGerald, UN Fit for Purpose
  Making the UN development system more “Fit for Purpose” for the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and the SDGs – what does it mean for gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment?