UN Women
1
High-level Political Forum
UN Women statement, delivered by Ms Lakshmi Puri, Assistant-Secretary
General and Deputy Executive Director, 20 July 2016
Exellencies,
I am pleased to address you during this first session of the HLPF since the
adoption of the 2030 Agenda. Last year, the international community adopted a
universal, comprehensive and transformative gender equality compact as part of
2030 Agenda and made a pledge to leave no woman and girl behind.
Gender inequality remains the most pervasive form of inequality around the
world, indeed the “mother” of all inequalities. The 2030 Agenda will not be
achieved unless all women and girls live a life free from discrimination and
violence, fear and want.
In a number of national voluntary reviews, governments made clear that there
can be no sustainable development without women and that systematic gender
mainstreaming is crucial for implementation. SDG5 is the targeted goal on
achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. The
transformative potential of the SDGs requires building on the interlinkages across
all SDGs so as to ensure that women and girls are not left behind.
Earlier this year, the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of
Women translated the concept of gender-responsive implementation into
concrete priority action areas:
• Institutional arrangements are required to ensure coherence and coordination
of effective and accountable institutions at all levels, including strengthening
national gender equality mechanisms.
• Non-discriminatory legal and policy frameworks must be in place to ensure
that those women and girls furthest behind are reached.
2
• An enabling environment for financing for gender equality is necessary to close
long-standing resource gaps. Gender-responsive, inclusive and sustainable
macroeconomic frameworks, ODA and domestic resource mobilization and
allocation are needed to redress the historic underinvestment in gender
equality and women’s empowerment.
• Women’s leadership and participation is pre-requisite to ensure inclusive,
participatory and representative decision-making at all levels, including an
enabling environment for all civil society actors, including women’s
organizations.
• We also need a radical shift in the availability, accessibility, analysis and use of
gender statistics through the development of new methodologies, increased
capacity of national statistical offices and better coordination amongst
partners at global, regional and national levels. UN Women is working with
partners to make this gender data revolution happen.
Now is the time to translate institutional structures and planning processes into
gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda with engagement of
stakeholders, including women’s organizations.
UN Women calls on all stakeholders to front load efforts in all areas to ensure
concrete progress is already achieved by 2020 when the international community
must be able to say that it has stepped it up and is on track to reach Planet 50/50
by 2030!
High-level Political Forum
UN Women statement, delivered by Ms Lakshmi Puri, Assistant-Secretary
General and Deputy Executive Director, 20 July 2016
Exellencies,
I am pleased to address you during this first session of the HLPF since the
adoption of the 2030 Agenda. Last year, the international community adopted a
universal, comprehensive and transformative gender equality compact as part of
2030 Agenda and made a pledge to leave no woman and girl behind.
Gender inequality remains the most pervasive form of inequality around the
world, indeed the “mother” of all inequalities. The 2030 Agenda will not be
achieved unless all women and girls live a life free from discrimination and
violence, fear and want.
In a number of national voluntary reviews, governments made clear that there
can be no sustainable development without women and that systematic gender
mainstreaming is crucial for implementation. SDG5 is the targeted goal on
achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. The
transformative potential of the SDGs requires building on the interlinkages across
all SDGs so as to ensure that women and girls are not left behind.
Earlier this year, the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of
Women translated the concept of gender-responsive implementation into
concrete priority action areas:
• Institutional arrangements are required to ensure coherence and coordination
of effective and accountable institutions at all levels, including strengthening
national gender equality mechanisms.
• Non-discriminatory legal and policy frameworks must be in place to ensure
that those women and girls furthest behind are reached.
2
• An enabling environment for financing for gender equality is necessary to close
long-standing resource gaps. Gender-responsive, inclusive and sustainable
macroeconomic frameworks, ODA and domestic resource mobilization and
allocation are needed to redress the historic underinvestment in gender
equality and women’s empowerment.
• Women’s leadership and participation is pre-requisite to ensure inclusive,
participatory and representative decision-making at all levels, including an
enabling environment for all civil society actors, including women’s
organizations.
• We also need a radical shift in the availability, accessibility, analysis and use of
gender statistics through the development of new methodologies, increased
capacity of national statistical offices and better coordination amongst
partners at global, regional and national levels. UN Women is working with
partners to make this gender data revolution happen.
Now is the time to translate institutional structures and planning processes into
gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda with engagement of
stakeholders, including women’s organizations.
UN Women calls on all stakeholders to front load efforts in all areas to ensure
concrete progress is already achieved by 2020 when the international community
must be able to say that it has stepped it up and is on track to reach Planet 50/50
by 2030!