UDAY YADAVJAYANTH BALAJI3RD YR-B

SOLUTIONS FORGENDER CONCERNS IN

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Global statistics place women behind men in relation to health, education, nutrition levels, political participation, legal rights, equal pay for equal work, amongst many other aspects of life.

Gender inequity remains pervasive in all countries of the world. This is both of public concern but also tied to individual behaviour.

Gender equality promotes development. Gender disparities are barriers to development imposing heavy costs on society in terms of reduced growth and lower poverty reduction.

THE CURRENT SITUATION

Conversely, addressing gender differences and reducing gender disparities through sustainable development projects and policies can also improve development effectiveness and sustainability.

Women are typically denied basic working rights, such as including minimum wages, regular work. To tackle such issues, the private sector, domestically and internationally, needs to further acknowledge the existence of flexible and home workers in terms of the contribution they make to production, including:

Supporting home-based workers' organisations and ensuring they are consulted in the development of codes of practice;

Ensuring such codes incorporate the home workers’ entitlement to basic employment rights;

SOLUTIONS

Ensuring that women home workers, the poorest of all, do not lose out due to moves that aim to improve conditions in global production chains;

Supporting independent women's collectives who can market their own products, reducing consumer dependence on large wholesalers, traders and merchants;

Establishing appropriate facilities e.g. child care facilities;

Ensuring adequate education and training for women (and men) to aid employment opportunities;

Increasing the number of qualified women in growing sectors, such as Information Technologies, by investing in accessible education and training for women;

Increasing women employees' and associations' access to credit.

Governments could also undertake greater steps to improve gender equity at work. They have a strong role in formulating and implementing legislation but also they are major employers. They thus have a powerful role of leading by example.

Gender mainstreaming policies and procedural rules need to be integrated into the workof all government departments, and adequate monitoring mechanisms should be established. Strategies to encourage gender balance in governance and sustainable development include:

Full and equal participation of women in the formulation of all policies and decision making;

Evaluating institutions for gender balance and action on gender issues;

Overcoming women's apathy and lack of understanding of government processes with innovative types of outreach, including awareness-raising, capacity-building, education and training of women and men; and of all people in decision-making posit ions in all sectors and at all levels (incl. changing curricula; public campaigns; developing gender sensit ivity training; guidelines for gender mainstreaming, etc);

GENDER MAINSTREAMING

Making gender disaggregated information available and supporting relevant research;

Guiding young women towards careers as decision-makers in sustainable development;

Collecting and sharing good practices at local, national and international levels; including peer group review of (good) practice and promoting successful strategies;

All such eff orts must be backed by adequate funding and support, and should be monitored and evaluated for eff ectiveness and replicability.

Within the UN Summit processes, the international community has, among others, identified the following priority issues, providing an important framework for achieving

gender equality in sustainable development: • Women's human rights and control over their lives; • Poverty eradication; • Women's access to, control and management of resources and services; • The impacts of globalisation; • Finance for development; • Health, including reproductive and environmental health.

THE UN SUMMIT PROCESS

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THE CHANGE.

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