Progress on the SDGs. The gender snapshot 2023

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023

This report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, focusing not only on the current level of progress, but also on the likelihood of achieving gender equality across the Goals at the current trajectory. Among this year’s recommendations is a call to significantly expand national investments and international financing in support of gender equality.

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Gender perspectives and confidence building for inclusive peace: Getting parties to a shared negotiation table through trust
Gender perspectives and confidence building for inclusive peace: Getting parties to a shared…
Confidence building is an area that is receiving significant attention in mediation processes around the world. Meanwhile, feminist analysis of the theories and…
COVID-19 and conflict: Advancing women’s meaningful participation in ceasefires and peace processes
COVID-19 and conflict: Advancing women’s meaningful participation in ceasefires and peace processes
This brief addresses the importance of women’s full, equal, and meaningful participation to an effective pandemic response and to peacemaking efforts, and how the women…
Gender, climate and security: Sustaining inclusive peace on the frontlines of climate change
Gender, climate and security: Sustaining inclusive peace on the frontlines of climate change
Grounded in a series of case studies from research and programming experience, this report offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how gender, climate, and…
Gaining ground: Women and territorial power-sharing in peace processes
Series on inclusive peace processes
These papers support women’s meaningful participation and the integration of gender perspectives in peace processes that aim to end violent intra-state conflict. The key…
Young women in peace and security: At the intersection of the YPS and WPS agendas
Young women in peace and security: At the intersection of the YPS and WPS agendas
Around the world, young women are working to prevent violent conflict, recover from crises, and build peaceful, tolerant communities, yet most peace and security…
Reparations for conflict-related sexual violence: Lessons from the Western Balkans
Reparations for conflict-related sexual violence: Lessons from the Western Balkans
This report is the outcome of a two-day conference on reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) held on 8 and 9 June 2016 outside Sarajevo, in…
The participation of women in the Mindanao peace process
The participation of women in the Mindanao peace process
The participation of women in decision-making in peace processes is one of the pillars of UN Security Council resolution 1325. The Philippines has seen robust women’s…
Gender and the role of women in Colombia's peace process
Gender and the role of women in Colombia's peace process
The promises and visions articulated in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent UN resolutions and position papers that recognize the connection…
Making women count - not just counting women
Making women count - not just counting women
A central challenge to women’s underrepresentation in peace and transitional processes is the lack of evidence-based knowledge on the role and impact of women’s…
Evaluation on the contribution of UN Women to increasing women’s leadership and participation to peace and security and humanitarian response
Evaluation on the contribution of UN Women to increasing women’s leadership and participation to…
From 2012 to 2013, the UN Women Independent Evaluation Office undertook the thematic evaluation of UN Women contribution to increasing women’s leadership and…