Commission on the Status of Women Agrees on Approach for Gender-Responsive Implementation of Sustainable Development Agenda

The Commission on the Status of Women, closing its sixtieth session, approved a robust set of Agreed Conclusions intended to pave the way for a gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Agreed Conclusions highlight the education, health, humanitarian and economic needs of women, with all those linked to the 2030 Agenda and its importance for women and girls. The document also makes reference to indigenous women, women with disabilities, rural women and youth, which underscored the importance of recognizing the intersecting challenges that millions of women and girls face.

By the terms of the Agreed Conclusions, which were presented in an informal paper, the Commission reaffirmed the importance of significantly increased investment to close resource gaps for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. That included the mobilization of financial resources from all sources — including domestic and international — and the full implementation of official development assistance (ODA), as well as strengthened international cooperation through North-South, South-South and triangular models.

http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw60-2016