Challenges and priorities for delivering on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 25 years on

Allotey, Pascale; Denton, Fatima

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“…When women and girls' health is narrowly conceived as SRH, it is easily politicized to the detriment of health and gender equality (Sommer and Forman-Rabinovici, 2020). Several participants noted feeling that the women's health agenda integral to their day-to-day work is regressing or facing signi cant threat from heavy politicization across domestic, state, and international levels, a nding re ected in the literature (Allotey & Denton, 2020). SRH is a key issue that continues to require coordinated efforts to protect the rights of women and girls everywhere, especially amid the threat of severe regression.…”

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“We have to look deeper into why”: perspectives on problem identification and prioritization of women’s and girls’ health across United Nations agencies

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Rice,

Adams

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Eliminating gender inequality and promoting population health are stand-alone goals in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is crucial to understand goal setting and policy making processes aimed at promoting gender and health equality given the entrenched and structural natures of these inequalities. Our research examines the process of problem and solution representation, priority setting, and factors that shape the policymaking process concerning women and girls within the UN system in relation to the SDGs. Data for this study were collected from semi-structured one-on-one interviews with participants who have work experience within the United Nations (UN) (n = 9). The analysis was informed by a qualitative descriptive methodology. Our findings identify the role of political forces in influencing policy, the challenges of limited and tied financial resources, the role of scientific evidence and data, and the purpose of different mandates across agencies. Political forces were found to shape the work of UN agencies, often hindering advancement of the SDG agenda. At the same time participants noted how they navigated opposition or what they considered regressive approaches to women and girls’ health in order to pursue a more progressive agenda. Finite financial resources were also noted to play an important role in shaping SDG implementation pertaining to women and girls’ health. Identification of the types of knowledge, evidence, and data that drive and are given preference in policy creation and development can highlight shortcomings and strengths of current modes of policy development and implementation. Key stakeholders and future research in health and development policy spheres can draw from our findings to gain insight into problem representation and prioritization. This will help identify underlying assumptions that inform work on women’s and girls’ health and how they shape policy agendas.

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“We have to look deeper into why”: perspectives on problem identification and prioritization of women’s and girls’ health across United Nations agencies

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Rice,

Adams

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“…The SDGs and mainstreaming policies have spotlighted gender relations and helped bring equity and equality to the policy agenda (Council of Europe, 1998;United Nations, 1999). However, no country has achieved the goals (Allotey & Denton, 2020). Major challenges, such as preventing sexual violence, continue to persist (Amin, Kismödi & García-Moreno, 2015;WHO, 2020a) and the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global backlash in all areas of gender equality (Global Health 50/50, 2021;Morgan et al, 2021).…”

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“…Intersectoral governance pathways were created on different levels and by a range of diverse stakeholders including public, private and advocacy groups (Table 7.1). Key issues include, for instance, the establishment of "gender mainstreaming" as a global strategy (Allotey & Denton, 2020;United Nations, 1999), the implementation of specific EU and national research programmes and new funding models of "gender budgeting" which connected gender equality goals to financial incentives and shared budgets. Participatory governance and stakeholder engagement were strong elements in some areas (such as maternity care), but poorly developed in most areas of science (Ovseiko et al, 2016).…”

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“…SDG3 is informed by Health in All Policies (Leppo et al, 2013) and SDG5 by "gender mainstreaming" (Council of Europe, 1998;. Also, UHC is still an "unfinished journey" (Rajan, Richiardi & McKee, 2020) and much the same applies to gender mainstreaming (Allotey & Denton, 2020). Thus, co-benefits should be considered as a process -bringing the role of actors and stakeholder groups into play -and a policy tool rather than an outcome.…”

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SDG5, gender equality: co-benefits and challenges

Kuhlmann,

Lotta

2024

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104 7 SDG5, gender equality: co-benefits and challenges ellen kuhlmann, gabriela lotta IntroductionUniversal healthcare coverage (UHC), "Health for all" and "Leaving no one behind" (WHO, 2021) need to include equity of and access for women, men and all other genders. The reverse is true as well: gender equality and human rights need health equity. Assessing policy co-benefits and improving intersectoral governance may help us achieve progress in these areas. This chapter explores the linkages between SDG3 Health and SDG5 "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls". We introduce selected sub-goals/targets of the two SDGs and briefly clarify the terms and concepts of gender equality. We argue that health equity and gender equality are "'twin forces" that are historically connected and cannot be separated, creating either strong co-benefits or a "double jeopardy" scenario for health and gender equality. Thus, developments at the crossroads of SDG3 and SDG5 are never "gender neutral" and need attention for two reasons: to strengthen the health policy co-benefits and to prevent and mitigate adverse effects if gender equality is ignored.The chapter describes the pathways between health and gender equality, taking into account theoretical issues, governance and policy challenges. We introduce a conceptual model of researching co-benefits that expands the focus on macro-level co-benefits towards more complex governance processes and outcomes. Selected empirical case studies consider four major targets of SDG5 and related SDG3 sub-goals, illustrating different scenarios of implementation of health and gender co-benefits in a range of policy and governance contexts.Our first case study highlights an optimum scenario of co-benefits driven by health policy action, using two mini-case studies as empirical examples: domestic violence against women (Amin, Kismödi & García-Moreno, 2015; WHO, 2002) and training midwives to improve access of migrant women to healthcare (Fair et al., 2021). Both examples are characterized through a global/European approach and a scenario of

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“…The pandemic struck in the year of the 25 th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action that promised prioritization of gender mainstreaming in the policies, practices and programmes of the UN and its agencies [ 6 ]. Beijing set forth a number of strategies that sought to ensure the cross-sectoral integration of gender terminology and responsiveness somewhat assuming the world knew what that might mean in practice [ 7 ]. Even though the Beijing Declaration has been successful in including sex and gender analysis in research, producing knowledge on certain factors affecting women’s health [ 8 ] and raising awareness of the health effects of sex and gender, these still fail to address larger structural causes of health inequality among women.…”

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Gender in public health research: Reflections on design and process across four research projects in low-and middle-income countries
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A growing body of work clearly documents the gendered inequalities in health. The COVID-19 pandemic further exposed these deep inequities: men appear to be more vulnerable to poorer outcomes, but most of the global health workforce is female who are at increased risk of exposure to hospital infection. However, researchers often fail to adequately embed gender as part of the public health research. This paper reports findings from a synthesis exercise that identified some of the challenges of integrating gender in the design and processes of research studies in four projects conducted in six low- and middle-income countries. Through a collective retrospective meta-synthesis process with researchers from each project, we identified two main themes; (i) we deep dive on two of the structural pillars of conducting public health research (design and process) and (ii) we describe some of the underlying opportunities and resistances to the integration of a gender perspective in these research projects. In conclusion, we suggest that public health funding bodies require researchers to integrate gender in public health research from early on as part of the design and to conduct gendered analysis, as part of the overall drive towards more equitable health systems delivery.

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Challenges and priorities for delivering on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 25 years on

Cited by 5 publications

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“We have to look deeper into why”: perspectives on problem identification and prioritization of women’s and girls’ health across United Nations agencies

“We have to look deeper into why”: perspectives on problem identification and prioritization of women’s and girls’ health across United Nations agencies

SDG5, gender equality: co-benefits and challenges

Gender in public health research: Reflections on design and process across four research projects in low-and middle-income countries

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