Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
“Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, UN Women’s new flagship report, provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of progress, gaps and challenges in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from a gender perspective. The report monitors global and regional trends in achieving the SDGs for women and girls based on available data, and provides practical guidance for the implementation of gender-responsive policies and accountability processes. As a source of high-quality data and policy analysis, the report is a key reference and accountability tool for policymakers, women’s organizations, the UN system, and other stakeholders.
This report lays the basis for robust, gender-responsive monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by:
- showing how gender equality is central to the achievement of all 17 SDGs and arguing for an integrated and rights-based approach to implementation;
- explaining gender data gaps and challenges for robust monitoring and establishing starting points and trends across a range of gender-related indicators based on available data;
- providing concrete guidance on policies to achieve two strategic targets under SDG 5 (violence and unpaid care) and outlining how these policies are synergistic with other goals and targets; and
- setting an agenda for strengthening accountability for gender equality commitments at global, regional, and national levels.
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- SDG monitoring report (ar, en, es, fr, ru)
- Summary (ar, de, en, es, fr, ru, zh)
- Fact sheets (all in a ZIP archive):
- Global (ar, en, es, fr)
- Australia and New Zealand
- Central and Southern Asia (en, ru)
- Eastern and South-eastern Asia
- Europe and Northern America (en, es, fr, ru)
- Latin America and the Caribbean (en, es)
- Northern Africa and Western Asia (ar, en, fr)
- Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)
- Sub-Saharan Africa (en, fr)
- Data sheets (Excel):
- Related documents:
- Spotlight on Goal 1: Gender differences in poverty and household composition through the life cycle
- Why gender equality matters across all SDGs: An excerpt of “Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”
- Infographic: Why gender equality matters to achieving all 17 SDGs
- SDG key messages
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Bibliographic information
Subject area(s): Gender equality and women’s empowerment; 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Resource type: Assessments; Flagship reports
UN Women office involved in publication: UN Women Headquarters
Publication year: 2018
Number of pages: 337
ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-63214-108-8
Publishing entities: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)