This paper analyses the role of feminist mobilizing in formulating the gender equality agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the goal (5) to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’ and gender?related targets across other SDGs. It explores how three key drivers shaped its contours and the effectiveness: (1) context of socioeconomic and political environment; (2) institutions; and (3) the processes of movement building. While feminist mobilizing led to significant advances in the SDGs relative to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), important unresolved barriers of financing and political opposition to women's human rights and gender equality remain and will require continued feminist mobilizing. This paper argues for the need to locate feminist mobilizing for the SDGs in the context of the history and persistence of gender inequality and violations of girls’ and women's human rights, and the struggle against these violations. This history is located within economic, social and political environments that are sometimes more open to progressive social change but often, as in the current global conjuncture, may not be.

Gender inequality remains the most pervasive form of inequality around the world, and progress in reducing it remains unacceptably slow with stagnation in several areas. Gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls are at the center of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda positions the Beijing Platform for Action as a foundational framework for sustainable development. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls addresses many of the important barriers to advancing women’s human rights. These are accompanied by gender-sensitive targets across other goals. Ensuring these commitments are fulfilled in all countries has the potential to transform the lives of women and girls across the world. Based on UN-Women’s analytical work and operational activities, a number of key lessons have emerged that should guide all stakeholders in all efforts to ensure a gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Moving beyond the narrow goals and targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the top-down manner in which they were defined, the 2030 Agenda promises to address many of their shortcomings. Not only has the process of defining the new agenda been more inclusive and its scope a universal one, but it is also anchored in human rights principles, while its goals and targets draw attention to a far more variegated set of structural concerns. This is evident in the remarkably broad scope of the targets under the gender-specific Goal 5. But the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), like the MDGs, are somewhat silent on the policies needed to achieve the goals and targets. When it comes to the gender-specific elements, while the SDGs do a far better job than the MDGs in drawing attention to key structural constraints that hold back women's enjoyment of their rights, on some of the more contested issues they hardly advance the agenda beyond what has been the ‘agreed language’ for decades. At the same time, the hard-won gains and vision of the SDGs, including SDG 5, may be difficult to realise unless the dominant economic model that forms the backdrop is changed, and stronger accountability mechanisms are put in place. In the absence of robust accountability mechanisms, the risk of dilution and selectivity in the process of implementation looms large.

This brief provides an overview of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members’ aid to gender equality since the MDGs and identifies priorities for financing gender equality in the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda. The figures are based on DAC members’ aid that has been screened using the DAC gender equality policy marker – a statistical tool to measure whether aid activities target gender equality as a policy objective. At present, 92% of all bilateral “sector allocable” aid is screened against the gender marker.

Por medio de la observación electoral se fortalece el impacto en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), contenidos en la Agenda 2030 adoptada por 193 Esta­dos Miembros de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas. La observación electoral se vincula principalmente con el ODS 16, relativo a Paz, Justicia e Instituciones Sólidas. No obstante, también está relacionada con otros ODS, como los del Fin de la pobreza (ODS 1), Igualdad de género (ODS 5), Reducción de las desigualdades (ODS 10) y el de las Alianzas para lograr los objetivos (ODS17), entre otros.


Por estas razones, es conveniente y deseable que la observación electoral se fortalezca, se profesionalice y desarrolle su máximo potencial en cada elección. De ahí la pertinencia y la importancia del Fondo de Apoyo a la Observación Electoral (FAOE), que es un elemento único en el mundo para el fortalecimiento de las capacidades de las Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil (OSC) que observan los procesos electorales.


Este documento da un panorama de la ejecución del FAOE. No obstante, para conocer sobre los resultados, hallazgos y recomendaciones de los proyectos, es de gran relevancia conocer los comunicados de las OSC participantes presentados durante las ruedas de prensa, así como sus informes finales.

En el presente informe se presenta la estrategia de igualdad de género del PNUD para 2018-2021, que es la tercera de la serie. Dicha estrategia expone los principios y prioridades fundamentales del enfoque del PNUD respecto de la igualdad de género y establece puntos de partida para la consecución de las metas de igualdad de género en los tres entornos de desarrollo del Plan Estratégico del PNUD para 2018 -2021. También establece las esferas prioritarias para la solución emblemática 6 del Plan Estratégico, “fortalecer la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres y las niñas”. Su fundamento es la visión recogida en la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible.