Gender Indicators & MDG3

Gender Indicators – Measuring Progress for Women: Opportunities and Challenges

Editted transcript from an IWDA hosted NGO Side Panel Sessions at CSW, with speakers from UN agencies, multilateral donors and national and regional mine action agencies.

NGO Sidepanel Gender Indicators

Millenium +5 Summit & IWDA Forum

In September 2005 the United Nations held a summit to review the implementation of the Millennium Declaration (2000) including a review of progress made towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

An outcomes document, to be agreed by all States Parties at the Summit is currently in draft form and can be found at: http://www.un.org/ga/president/59/draft_outcome.htm

IWDA endorses the proposed Gender Language amendments to the Draft Outcome Document for the Millennium + 5 Summit, September 2005.

This draft is already significantly revised from previous drafts, as a result of submissions from a range of governments and civil society organisations around the world. A major contributor to this process is the group made up of the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), Women’s Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO), Development Alternatives for Women in New Era (DAWN) and the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security.

IWDA has endorsed the proposed language amendments, which focus on advancing women’s rights and gender equality through the outcome document.

Gender Language amendments

Go to www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/policy/millsummit/index.html for previous recommendations and more information.

The Practicality, Merits and Challenges of using Gender Indicators in the Field

Breakout Session of the 10th Annual AWID Conference, How Does Change Happen
October 2005, Bangkok

Session hosted by International Women’s Development Agency
Gender in the Field

Gender as a focus on Milenium Development Goals (MDG’s)

The forum was planned as a way of bringing together general public interested in the forthcoming Millennium Summit in New York. The Forum is also intended as a briefing session for NGO and government representatives and others attending the Summit, to highlight the importance of a gender perspective in the process and in all of the MDGs and to outline some of the work that has been done on advancing the MDG #3 on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

IWDA invited people to attend a forum on gender issues in the Millennium Summit +5 and the Millennium Development Goals. Mr Bruce Billson, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade will open the forum, and guest speakers include Paul O’Callaghan, Executive Director of ACFID; Lenore Manderson, academic from Melbourne University; Juan Carlos Brandt, Director of the UN Information Centre in Australia and Christina Richards, CEO of Australian Reproductive Health Alliance.

Click on the speakers to read the transcript of their presentaion.
Christina Richards
Leonore Manderson
Juan Carlos Brandt
Bruce Billson

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 under Papers.