1. Assessing progress towards SDG-5 from national to community levels
Ranjani K. Murthy
Prepared for Guest Lecture, Organized by Nepal COE and WLCN, June 20, 2016

2. Objectives
To explore how progress towards SDG 5 could be assessed from national to community level using national statistics, gender-sensitive surveys and participatory methods

3. SDG 5 targets and indicators
Three parts
MDG- SDG differences
SDG 5 targets and indicators
SDG 5 monitoring

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

5. Differences between MDGs and SDGs
0 goals
Universal
Local government
Inclusive process?
Inclusive economic
Peace
Equity

6. Difference between MDGs and SDGs: GEWE
More comprehensive GEWE targets and indicators
Better integration of gender across --- SDGs

7. Critique from a development lens
Neo-liberal development
Mainstreaming of equity
Othering of development
Learning lessons from past
Indicators and data
Redistributive- land and wages, othering not including some agendas guns per capita or not allowing migrants, not removing food subsidies

8. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
SDG 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

9. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5 (18/249)
Target
Indicator
Tier
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
III
UN Women
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 II
UN women
UNFPA
UNICEF
5.1.1 Proccess indicator. Poll . Non discrriminated
5.2.1 reported . Where is under 15 coming?

10. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Tier
5.2 continued
5.2.2 Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate
partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence II
UN women
UNFPA
UNICE
5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child,
early and forced marriage and female genital
mutilation
5.3.1 Proportion of women aged years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.3.2 Proportion of girls and women aged years who have undergone female
genital mutilation/cutting, by age I
UNICEF
5.2.2 Physical and psychologial violence of opposite sex. Gender or not.
5.3.2 India data fgm- how tier 1?

11. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Tier
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
Tier 2
UN W
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
Tier 1
ILO
Basic income to women from state for unpaid work? Recongnise and valu
Leadership??? Representaiton. Take up strategic gendr issues

12. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Tier
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
III
UNFPA
III UNFPA
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

13. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Tier
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
III
FAO,
UN W ,
UNSD
UN statistics division- UNSD
Ownership of land secure rights. Land for underp distributed.
Law guarantees right of agri pop to land.
Ceilings

14. Proposed SDG indicators: Goal 5
Target
Indicator
Tier
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
Tier 2
ITU
Tier 3
UN Women
ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs.
Use mobile TV, laptop, internet account,
Budget for marginalised.

15. Targets and Indicators critique
Targets ambitious
Some vague
Some not there (e.g. sex ratio at birth)
Few indicators of process
Some indicators data or methodology is not there/frequent enough (Tier 2, Tier 3)

16. Monitoring SDG-5
Community
District
National

17. By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births4 5 6
MMR 2015
Target
Reduction
Required
(column 2-3)
Per year reduction
(column 4/15)
Per five year
(column 4/3)
Afghanistan
386 70
316 21
Bangladesh
176
106 7
India
174
104
Indonesia
126 56
Nepal
258
188 13
Nigeria
814
744 50
Zimbabwe
443
373 25

18. Checklist- no one left behind!
National data
Quality, decentralized data
equity and gender
Modify to add variables, analyse- gender and equity

19. Civil society monitoring national–
MDG
Social Watch
org/report2014
Wada Na Todo Abhiyan
National shadow reports
National budget and expenditure monitoring
Gender-and equity? lens
DAWN (global)
ARROW MDG monitoring (Asia)
Good practices for different MDGs
SW: All south asian countries here, zambia, Tanzania…

20. District level SDG monitoring (UNDP – LG Ministry)
Profiles of panchayats/VDCs related to relevant MDG indicators – mainly MDG 1 and 3
Building DDC capacity to aggregate, analyse, plan, allocate resource and monitor progress on MDGs
However, capacities and sustainability were issues

21. Gender and equity monitoring: SDG 5
Prioritization of targets/ indicators by most marginalised women
Monitoring committee and training
Participatory visual baselines and monitoring
Validating aggreg, analysing and lobbying

22. End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere (Target 5.1)
Story telling

23. 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

24. Child marriage
5.3.1 Proportion of women aged years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
FGD with children
Discussion with teachers,
Child Help Lines
Registrar’s office
Discussion with parents
Discussion with local NGO

25. 5.4.1 Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location, add other axioms of equity

26. 5.5.1 Proportion of seats held by women in …. local government
Water users’, watershed, school, health, peace committee
Representation, Attendance, Influence, decision making

27. 5.6.1 Proportion of women aged years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care

28. Gender and diveristy aware social map
5.7.1 (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership
Gender and diveristy aware social map

29. 5.7 (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

30. Monitor from a gender and equity lens
SDG monitoring32Q3
Look back
MDG
Monitoring
Monitor from a gender and equity lens
Look Beyond