Progress in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the ESCWA region
Subtitle: a gender lens
By: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Women in development; Women; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Millennium Development Goals
Description: "This report analyses the causes and consequences of the uneven progress made by ESCWA member countries towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by providing a detailed examination of the MDG targets and their associated indicators through the prism of a gender lens. The principal hypothesis of the report is that progress towards attaining the MDGs will not materialize if countries fail to adopt gender-responsive and rights-based national development polices and strategies. It also posits that national development policies and programmes that disregard the role played by women in safeguarding human life and nurturing the seeds of development will all too easily reap precisely what they have sown, missing scarce but valuable opportunities for developmental progress towards achieving the MDGs."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "E/ESCWA/ECW/2011/1."

"1 July 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-59).

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: context and background; title: Structural context of gender and development goals; title: Gender equality and the Millennium Development Goals: progress and challenges; title: The MDGs and gender equality: successes, obstacles and recommended actions.