tailieunhanh - Advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women: role of development cooperation

Special emphasis in this conversation will be placed on the role international mechanisms can play as relevant drivers of behaviour change, notably those focusing on relevant sectors and able to produce information that is responsive to the needs of national stakeholders to promote gender equality. Speakers will show how evidence on gender equality can be used to hold actors to account at the international level and what challenges remain. The impact of global sectoral initiatives in the areas of agriculture and food security on the livelihoods of women will be one case in point with the New Alliance. | Preparing for the 2014 Development Cooperation Forum Vienna Policy Dialogue Conference Room M2 - UN Office in Vienna - 13 and 14 December 2012 Advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women role of development cooperation The Millennium Development Goals MDGs have made a great difference for development in helping set global and national priorities and fuel action on the ground. They have raised awareness and shaped a broad vision that remains the overarching blueprint for development work across all regions. Member States have anchored and reaffirmed their commitment to gender equality in several normative Yet too many women have not been able to benefit from progress made in meeting the MDGs. Their rights are often not respected and they are left voiceless excluded from social protection access to services and economic opportunities. Women and girls continue to face gender-based discrimination and violence as internationally agreed commitments on women s rights and the empowerment of women are not met in many countries. The growing number and diversity of actors approaches and flows in international development cooperation in recent years have also significantly impacted progress on the MDGs. Gender equality is a central goal of development in and by itself. Given the centrality of women as critical drivers of development development cooperation must explicitly target women and girls facing multiple forms of inequality and discrimination. Against this backdrop the Vienna Policy Dialogue in preparation of the 2014 Development Cooperation Forum DCF will explore how to firmly position gender equality and the empowerment of women and the protection of their rights in the changing landscape of international development cooperation and in the evolving post-2015 UN development agenda. Organized by UNDESA in partnership with UN Women and the Government of Austria the Vienna Policy Dialogue will bring together senior representatives experts from .

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