1. Understanding SDGs and Gender in SDGs
Ranjani K Murthy, Board Member, Ekta
Prepared for Feminist Capacity Building on Women and Development – November 2016
EKTA, Madurai and Sangat South Asia
(Adapting Murthy and Kappen, 2016)

2. MDGs and SDGs MDGs SDGs Origin Millennium summit, 2000 Rio+20- 2012
Goals 8 17
Targets 18
169
Period applicable

3. Differences between MDGs and SDGs
0 goals
Universal
Gender integration better
Inclusive process?
Inclusive economic
Peace

4. MDG Achievement Proclaimed to be achieved:
Reduce extreme poverty and hunger by half (Goal 1)
Universal access to safe water (part of Goal 7)
Combat malaria (part of Goal 6)
Achieve gender parity in primary education (part of Goal 3)
Proclaimed not achieved:
Gender parity -women in non agriculture and parliament (part of Goal 3)
Combat HIV/AIDS (part of Goal 6)
Reduce maternal mortality ratio by 2/3rd (Goal 4)
Universal access to safe sanitation (part of Goal 7)
Murthy with Kappen, forthcoming, Gender, Equality and SDGs: A training manual, Visthar, Bangalore

5. Why not achieved? Neo-liberal development paradigm
Redistribution not the focus
Conflicts
Social norms not a target
Gender targets and indicators were limited
Sustainability not emphasized

6. SDGs 1) End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
3) Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
4) Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6) Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7) Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8) Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all

7. SDGs
9) Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation
10) Reduce inequality within and among countries
11) Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12) Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13) Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14) Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15) Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss
16) Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
17) Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development
41%

8. SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life

9. SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

10. Group work: Group 1: Target 5.1 and 5.2 Group 2: Target 5.3
Group 6: Targets 5.8 and 5.9
Rate progress towards targets/indicators in TN/SL
Reasons

11. Indicators of UNEG (4 very high, 1 very low)
Target
Indicator
Rating on achievement
1-4
5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all
women and girls everywhere
5.1.1 Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and
monitor equality and non‑discrimination
on the basis of sex
5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all
women and girls in the public and private spheres,
including trafficking and sexual and other types of
exploitation
5.2.1 Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12
months, by form of violence and by age

12. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Rating on achievement
1-4
5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic
work through the provision of public services,
infrastructure and social protection policies and the
promotion of shared responsibility within the
household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.4.1 Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and Location
5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation
and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels
of decision-making in political, economic and
public life
5.5.1 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments and local Governments
5.5.2 Proportion of women in managerial
positions
Basic income to women from state for unpaid work? Recongnise and valu
Leadership??? Representaiton. Take up strategic gendr issues

13. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Rating on achievement
1-4
5.6 Ensure universal access to SRHR as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action
of the International Conference on Population and
Development and the Beijing Platform for Action
and the outcome documents of their review
Conferences
5.6.1 Proportion of women aged 15-49
years who make their own informed
decisions regarding sexual relations,
contraceptive use and reproductive health care
5.6.2 Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee women aged years access to SRH care, information and education
5.6.2 Coloured by myths, media, income. Informed decision, forced marriage, honour killing. Govt does not allow them ot use
Equitable
5.6.2 actual practices

14. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Rating of achievement
1-4
5.7 Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
5.7.1 (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure
rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
5.7.2 Proportion of countries where the
legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
UN statistics division- UNSD
Ownership of land secure rights. Land for underp distributed.
Law guarantees right of agri pop to land.
Ceilings

15. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Rating of achievement
1-4
5.8 Enhance the use of enabling technology, in
particular information and communications
technology, to promote the empowerment of women
5.9 Adopt and strengthen sound policies and
enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender
equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
5.8.1 Proportion of individuals who own
a mobile telephone, by sex
5.9.1 Proportion of countries with
systems to track and make public
allocations for gender equality and
women’s empowerment
ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs.
Use mobile TV, laptop, internet account,
Budget for marginalised.

16. SDG monitoring Example SDG 3, target 1
By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births

17. National monitoring an example
Maternal mortality ratio
2015
Reduction per year required to reach 70 by 2030
Sri Lanka 30
India
174
National Shadow report
District planning and shadow report

18. Community monitoring

19. Caste and gender discrimination mapping

20. Violence mapping

21. 24 hour clock

22. Gender and decision making matrix

23. Gender and diveristy aware social map

24. Body mapping/pictures

25. Gender and diversity aware resource mapping (TN)

26. Gender based control over resources (Overholt et al 1985)