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This document presents the results of an examination of gender
mainstreaming through 78 national Millennium Development Goal (MDG)
Reports.
An initial examination found that gender concerns and
perspectives were not mainstreamed adequately across goals in the
majority of reports. References to women and gender continued to be
"ghettoised" under Goals 3 and 5. Discussions on Goal 7 were almost
completely gender-blind in the majority of the reports studied.
Disaggregated data were seldom provided except under Goals 2 and 3,
where they are a specific requirement. In most of the reports
scanned, women continued to be cast as mothers and victims rather
than agents of development. Attempts to "step out of the box" and
place discussions on issues such as poverty and HIV and AIDS in the
larger context of gender equality and women’s rights and freedoms,
were infrequent exceptions.
Key task force recommendations include:
- address the gaps and weaknesses in the current Goal 3 target
and indicators by identification of new targets and indicators to
augment the existing ones
- campaign for policy intervention to strengthen women’s
capabilities through existing initiatives in health, education,
and other sectors; expand opportunities through fundamental
changes in the economic order; and enhance agency through measures
such as electoral quotas and legislation on violence against women
- build on existing frameworks such as CEDAW and the ILO Decent
Work Agenda for achieving gender equality. These should be
complemented by a new international campaign for zero tolerance
for violence against women
- improve the availability and quality of sex-disaggregated
data, increasing financial and technical resources for agencies
dedicated to promoting the status of women, and enhancing
political commitment to gender equality.
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