The roots of SDG5 go as far back as the United Nations Conference on Women held in Mexico in 1975 and the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). From the mid-1970s, women entered the development agenda thanks to the continuous efforts of liberal feminist economists who promoted and brought visibility to women’s issues (Calkin, 2015). These efforts continued to be part of feminists’ agenda in the 1980s and 1990s and women’s rights remained on the international development agenda (Cornwall and Rivas, 2015). Many of these conversations and efforts to tackle women’s social and cultural precarious circumstances were later captured and systematised in the 2000-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aimed to provide a list of clear targets and to enact the work laid out by feminists since the 1970s. MDG3 in particular focused on “promot[ing] gender equality and empower[ing] women.” The 2015 United Nations Report on the MDGs highligh...

With 14 indicators distributed over nine targets, SDG-5 aims at achieving gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls by 2030 for all countries agreed to work towards achieving them. NITI Aayog of Govt. of India selected six indicators towards improvement in SDG-5.Focusing attention to SDG-5 only, the paper proposes simple method of aggregating indicators of SDG-5 and discusses properties of the proposed methods. Each of the indicators was expressed in terms of proportions which were combined to reflect overall proportion for a State/UT at current period. The proposed method of combining indicators expressed as proportions is simple, appealing and helps to assess current status (achievement) of a State by computing combined proportion. Current status of the States can similarly be combined to get current status of a country and its distance from the 2030 targets. Similar procedure may be extended to find current status of the world by combining the country-wise current status. Measures of percentage improvement or deterioration at country/State levels at a period from the previous period were discussed. Important inferences on comparison of countries may be drawn on the basis of path of improvement registered by a State or country. Future studies suggested.

History clearly highlights the status of women as weak and confined to household activities with no role in the state or society. Regions where women were treated low, and under mined with no place in the law or society mostly are from the under developing and developing nations today. This does not signify that it is the curse of those women that, these countries are still developing or under developed but the disparity and violence against women has been noticeably high mostly in the global south. With the advent of renaissance and industrial revolution and the rise of civil societies, peer groups and international organizations, the concept of gender equality has been promoted to the forefront mainly with respect to the facilitation of institutional and infrastructural help like education, health, basic loans and employment to women. The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have laid two special focuses with respect to women’s empowerment. SDG 5, ‘Gender Equality’ and SDG 10 ‘Reduced Inequalities’, which creates a sense of inclusiveness and collective responsibility of advocating a happy, healthy and sustainable society through stronger workplaces and partnerships. This paper clearly and briefly discusses SDGs and Women’s role in the present world and in the promotion of these global goals by highlighting the concept of not giving any special significance for women but encourage their participation in the various activities of society to create a better place for living though promotion faith, hope and love.

ABSTRACK Gender equality is an important issue for various developing countries, one of which is Indonesia. Addressing gender equality issues must be understood and understood as a serious problem. Gender equality is very important because it can make the country better. In the SDGs, gender equality is stated as the 5th point. This stated that, the world agreed to achieve gender equality in any form throughout the world, including Indonesia.

Gender issues, and gender equality in particular, can be regarded as cross-cutting issues in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), even though it is unclear how they are taken into account. This study addresses this information gap by performing an assessment of the emphasis on gender issues across all the other 16 SDGs, in addition to SDG5, through a literature review and case study analysis, the basis for the newly developed framework, highlighting specific actions associated to each SDG. The 13 countries addressed in the 16 case studies include China, India, or Australia and illustrate the inclusion of SDG5 into the SDGs. Using an SDG matrix, the SDG targets are analysed. Those where an emphasis on gender equality is important in allowing them to be achieved are listed. The novelty of our approach resides in offering an in-depth analysis of how gender issues interact with the other SDGs, proposing a new analysis framework clearly identifying SDGs 1, 4, 1...

Gender equality lies at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which asserts gender equality as both a fundamental human right and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. The evidence collected in this discussion paper shows that gender equality is critical to achieving a wide range of objectives pertaining to sustainable development. These include promoting economic growth and labour productivity, reducing poverty, enhancing human capital through health and education, attaining food security, addressing climate change impacts and strengthening resilience to disasters, and ensuring more peaceful and inclusive communities. It therefore argues that accelerating gender equality in all spheres of society leads to a more rapid increase in progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda.

The report provides a snapshot of gender equality across all the 17 SDGs, providing evidence of how gender equality matters for each and every one of them. It presents global and regional averages for gender-specific indicators that can serve as baselines for future reporting and highlights the interlinkages between SDG 5 and other goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda.

It is generally agreed by most observers that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have fallen short of achieving gender equality and women's empowerment. Today, women continue to be more likely than men to live in poverty, and more than 18 million girls in sub-Saharan Africa are out of school. One of the crucial reasons for the failure of the MDGs in relation to women was their inability to address the deeply entrenched and interlocking factors that perpetuate women's disadvantage. The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as articulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, constitute an improvement over the MDGs. Goal 5, which enshrines the stand-alone goal on gender equality, is comprised of nine specific targets, including the elimination of gender-based violence and access to reproductive health. In addition, gender equality is mainstreamed into numerous others goals. Given that the global community is now poised to implement the SDGs, the challenge is...

Korstanje. M. (2024) “Managing Events Stakeholders”. Chapter 5. . In Sustainable Events Management. Raj R & Griffin K (eds). Wallingford, CABI. ISBN 978-1-80062136-7 This chapter evaluates and discusses mapping and managing stakeholder engagement within sustainable event management as one of the most challenging disciplines following COVID-19. The pandemic not only ground the industry of events and festivals into an unparalleled halt but also global trade generally. What is important, in a post-disaster context, is resilience to adapt the new destinations to the celebration of international events. Further, the complex nature of engagement is examined. The events encompass a great diversity of actors, all of them following different interests; therefore, it is very hard to give a precise description of engagement. The different levels of engagement among stakeholders in event management and festivals are examined.

Abstract: This essay engages with the mounting published criticism of neo-institu- tionalism, but from the point of view of the institutional logical approach, one of its descendants. By addressing each of the main critiques: (1) institutional logical theory is tautological; (2) everything is institutional; (3) the absence of politics and power, and (4) its lack of a critical theory - the essay attempts to think how to build a theoretical apparatus able to engage with the current institutional crises of the world.