Gender equality from the MDGs to the SDGs

Taylor, Sara Rose; Mahon, Rianne

doi:10.4324/9780429029622-4

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“…Although gender equality has been a central issue as part of the MDGs and also SDGs, little progress has been achieved and in fact some backlash occurred (Taylor and Mahon 2019).…”

Section: The Governance Of Global Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agenda 2030 and migration: a blueprint for transformative change or business as usual?

Datta,

Piper

2024

The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals

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“…Although gender equality has been a central issue as part of the MDGs and also SDGs, little progress has been achieved and in fact some backlash occurred (Taylor and Mahon 2019).…”

Section: The Governance Of Global Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agenda 2030 and migration: a blueprint for transformative change or business as usual?

Datta,

Piper

2024

The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals

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“…Some of these spaces are not wide enough to allow contestation of the parameters of the universe of policy discourse. For example, the MDGs opened much narrower spaces than did the SDGs, when they opened at all (Rose Taylor and Mahon, 2019). Advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) had limited opportunity to contest how this issue was dropped from the global agenda when excluded from the MDGs.…”

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“… 7. For a more detailed history of contestations from women’s organizations throughout the MDGs and SDGs, see Rose Taylor and Mahon (2019). …”

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UN Women’s feminist engagement with governance by indicators in the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals

Taylor

2020

Global Social Policy

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The rise of evidence-based policy has brought with it an increase in the use of indicators and data-driven global projects. The United Nations System has used the indicator-based Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) projects to govern policy from above. Of particular interest in this article is how indicators are used to govern gender equality initiatives within the Goals. By using ‘governance by indicators’ as a framework for understanding global policy processes, we can better understand how the power of indicators can help or hinder progress towards gender equality depending on the extent to which it renders gendered concerns visible. Studying indicators in this forum also illuminates spaces of contestation, where policy actors can debate indicators and reshape meaning. Based on this framework, this article explores UN Women’s feminist critique of measurement and knowledge production in the MDGs and SDGs. Looking through their feminist lens applied to this form of knowledge production can yield a better understanding of the use of indicators in shaping evidence-based policy from the global level. In recognizing the value of quantification and data-driven evidence in policy, this article speaks to the tension between feminist critique of quantitative knowledge production and the feminist approach’s welcoming of multiple ways of knowing.

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“…Unlike its predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Agenda 2030 is considered to be universal, applicable to all UN Member States, regardless of the country’s income or any other status (Taylor & Mahon, 2019). This was widely celebrated as a significant shift in development discourses (ibid.…”

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Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system

Novovic

2021

Development Policy Review

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Motivation:Localization is an elusive target of international development, aimed at strengthening local ownership through equitable partnerships and redistribution of resources and decision-making. While this is a long-standing objective, it remains unachieved. In light of these limitations in global governance, the transformative potential of Agenda 2030 is questioned. Purpose: This article observes policy shifts triggered by Agenda 2030 by analysing its domestication in institutional and national contexts in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. By asking "Can Agenda 2030 bring about localization?" the article examines the policy potential of Agenda 2030 to transform the traditional international development paradigm, as David Slater theorized in 1993. Methods and approach: The article offers interpretive policy analysis and presents insights drawn from 172 interviews and 11 focus group discussions (FGDs) conducted with international and national civil servants, civil society actors, and academics in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, as well as headquarters and regional offices of selected United Nations and donor agencies. Findings: Agenda 2030 emerges as a legitimate framework that creates new policy avenues of national agenda-setting and multi-stakeholder co-ordination. Across all three national contexts, Agenda 2030 was integrated into national agendas, considered to be central development anchors that, however, largely depend on change-resistant donor structures. This is intensifying critiques of development paradigms among development practitioners, particularly from historically disadvantaged countries. Policy implications: While triggering meaningful shifts in development agenda-setting, Agenda 2030 has not resulted in political commitments to transform inequitable global development mechanisms that would enable its achievement. Key bottlenecks, in fact, are found not in the insufficient implementation of countries receiving official development assistance, but in the lack of institutional reforms to donor and global governance mechanisms. Political, rather than policy, solutions are required.

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Gender equality from the MDGs to the SDGs

Cited by 7 publications

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Agenda 2030 and migration: a blueprint for transformative change or business as usual?

Agenda 2030 and migration: a blueprint for transformative change or business as usual?

UN Women’s feminist engagement with governance by indicators in the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals

Can Agenda 2030 bring about “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system

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