Description
Gender equality is both captured as a stand-alone goal (SDG 5) in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and reflected across all the goals. The 2030 Agenda confirms that realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the goals and targets. The systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the implementation of the Agenda is crucial. Thus, gender equality acts as a catalyst to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda providing an unprecedented opportunity to transform the lives of women and girls. This final panel discussion will focus on how strategies and policies for the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action will contribute to the realization of the 2030 Agenda. The dialogue will address different factors required to prompt the desired sustainable transformation, such as new partnerships among different stakeholders and across different sectors as well as shifts in mentalities, attitudes and behaviours.
