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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Focus on Gender: SDG targets are no such thing -Henrietta Miers

Focus on Gender: SDG targets are no such thing -Henrietta Miers

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published Published on Mar 4, 2015   modified Modified on Mar 4, 2015
-SciDev.net

Many of the proposed SDG targets are unmeasurable activities not targets

Gender-related ‘targets' are also not tied to wider development goals

The UK has shown the way by using interlinked outcomes for women and girls

A report published by two science organisations earlier this month criticised the current framework for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as being largely ill-defined, not based on the latest science, lacking in synergy and with no narrative of development.

The fifth SDG, "achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls", is a good case in point.

Some of the targets attached to this SDG are vague. One aims to end ‘discrimination' against women and girls. But without a clear definition of discrimination how can this be addressed? Another aims to recognise and value unpaid care and domestic work. Yet feminist academics have different definitions of unpaid care work, so which one are we meant to recognise and value?

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SciDev.net, 2 March, 2015, http://www.scidev.net/global/gender/analysis-blog/gender-sdg-targets-sustainability-governance.html


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