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Over the past several decades, developing countries have made remarkable progress in achieving quantitative education targets. Since the turn of the millennium, almost 50 million children around the world have gained access to basic education - and most are reaching completion. But as recent PISA data shows, this is not ...

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Dr.SHALINI RAJNEESH, IAS: Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls - UN SDG Goal 5

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Dr.Shalini Rajneesh IAS,Principal Secretary to Government Planning, Program Monitoring and Statistics Department UN SDG Women topper of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 1989 Batch. She is a Gold medalist in Psychology, MBA from Australia and PhD in Rural Development.

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How can we provide quality education for all by 2030? | Bernd Roggendorf | TEDxHamburg

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Gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of human rights and is an aspiration that benefits all of society, including girls and women.

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SDG 5 Gender Equality - UN Sustainable Development Goals - DEEP DIVE

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Targets

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

Women and girls, everywhere, must have equal rights and opportunity, and be able to live free of violence and discrimination. Women's equality and empowerment is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, but also integral to all dimensions of inclusive and sustainable development. In short, all the SDGs depend on the achievement of Goal 5.

Gender equality by 2030 requires urgent action to eliminate the many root causes of discrimination that still curtail women's rights in private and public spheres. For example, discriminatory laws need to change and legislation adopted to proactively advance equality. Yet 49 countries still lack laws protecting women from domestic violence, while 39 bar equal inheritance rights for daughters and sons. Eliminating gender-based violence is a priority, given that this is one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today. Based on data from 87 countries, 1 in 5 women and girls under the age of 50 will have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner within the last 12 months. Harmful practices, such as child marriage, steal the childhood of 15 million girls under age 18 every year.

Women do 2.6 times more unpaid care and domestic work than men. While families, societies and economies depend on this work, for women, it leads lower earnings and less time to engage in non-work activities. In addition to equal distribution of economic resources, which is not only a right, but accelerates development in multiple areas, there needs to be a fair balance of responsibility for unpaid care work between men and women.

Sexual and reproductive rights are critical in their own right. Shortfalls in these multiply other forms of discrimination, depriving women of education and decent work, for example. Yet only 52 per cent of women married or in a union freely make their own decisions about sexual relations, contraceptive use and health care.

While more women have entered political positions in recent years, including through the use of special quotas, they still hold a mere 23.7 per cent of parliamentary seats, far short of parity. The situation is not much better in the private sector, where women globally occupy less than a third of senior and middle management positions.[1]

UN Women acts to empower women and girls across all its programmes and advocacy. With stepped up action on gender equality, every part of the world can make progress towards sustainable development by 2030, leaving no one behind.

Stories

From where I stand: "When I'm stung, I am reminded of how strong I already am"
Oralia Ruano Lima was among the first women in her indigenous community to join an all-female entrepreneurship project as a beekeeper. Today the women beekeepers of Urlanta, a village in Guatemala, are bringing in sustainable jobs and income to their rural communities, and changing mindsets and attitudes towards women.

Safe in Serengeti: Young women and girls seek refuge from female genital mutilation
Girls as young as seven flee female genital mutilation and other abuses in the Mara region of Tanzania, escape to a safe house which provides them shelter and protection. The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women has supported Amref Health Tanzania to launch an awareness raising and advocacy programme, aiming to end FGM practices.

From where I stand: "I made history by becoming the youngest City Council member"
After attending leadership trainings, Abla Al Hajaia became the youngest City Council member in Jordan in 2016. Now, she uses her position to help Syrian refugees in her community and educate women on their legal rights.

The long road to justice, prosecuting femicide in Mexico
It took Irinea Buendía six years to get justice for her daughter's murder, but her pursuit of justice led to a historic precedent in prosecuting femicide in Mexico. UN Women is supporting government institutions and civil society organizations, so that together they can raise awareness and end impunity towards crimes against women and girls.

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SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

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How can women help achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls?

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Education For All | Cameron Allen | TEDxKids@ElCajon

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SDG 4 Quality Education - UN Sustainable Development Goals - DEEP DIVE

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SDG 4 Quality Education - UN Sustainable Development Goals - DEEP DIVE

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Quality Education: Realities after Pandemic | Mustapha Shehu | TEDxModojiRoad

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How Have Schools Improved Since the Pandemic? What Teachers Had to Say

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Educator’s view: In technology, mental health, and nurturing and solutions-oriented environments, COVID provided lessons schools have taken to heart.

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Gender equalityGender equality, the fifth of the sustainable development goalsSustainable development goals (SDGs) of the UN, is a base element for creating a comfortable, sustainable and wealthy world and being a fundamental human right. While achieving the goals…

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At the end of the conversation with the journalist, she asked, "So what do we do next?" I'm not sure the right answer. What I know is this-the whole-scale disruptive innovation we were thinking might happen in the education sector didn't arrive this fall. Instead, we're facing a system whose thread-bare infrastructure has become painfully obvious. We need to make teaching more sustainable. We need reliable infrastructure that transports and feeds children consistently and safely. We need ways to facilitate more authentic human connections.
Likely, we need an industry reckoning.

More equitable, flexible and sustainable state funding formulas for schools can allow teachers to support the complex issues that are entering their classrooms.

We need policy reform that weighs the social-emotional well being of children and their academic growth equally with their overall academic achievement.

We need to invest in research and development so that we can find, vet and scale technology solutions that make students, parents and educators lives easier.

And how we study these solutions is key. It's critical that the process of innovation is inclusive and builds upon the expertise and lived experience of educators, students, and parents. At my organization, LeanLab Education, we focus on measuring and improving education technology products. The school communities we work with tell us their biggest challenges, we match them with an edtech product, and all three of us-researchers, developers, and educators-design a bespoke research study that's adaptive to the school's context and gives educators the evidence they need to make informed decisions.

This kind of co-designed innovation may not be as fast as we would like. It's a process that shifts power back to educators, parents, and students. It can be less "efficient" than top-down reforms but in order for innovation to be truly sustainable, it needs to incorporate the expertise of those with lived experience. In this moment, we're all trying to balance progress and compassion but we've learned that these goals are not at odds, they work in harmony. In fact, the only way that we can progress, right now, is through compassion.

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Grief, Pressure & Connection: A Primer on Education in a Post-Pandemic World - Leanlab Education

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While private schools saw limited interruptions, some stable, public school districts have used the catalyst of the Covid-19 pandemic to progress personalized learning initiatives and implement more experimental curricula.

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"Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to creating sustainable development. In addition to improving quality of life, access to inclusive education can help equip locals with the tools required to develop innovative solutions to the world's greatest problems." (UN Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 4)

In this day and age, over 265 million children are yet out of school worldwide. Moreover, even the children who are attending schools are lacking basic skills in reading and math. In the past decade, major progress has been made towards increasing access to education at all levels and increasing enrollment rates in schools particularly for women and girls. Basic literacy skills have improved tremendously, yet bolder efforts are needed to make even greater strides for achieving universal education goals.

The lack of quality education observed is due to a number of constraints, namely the lack of adequately trained teachers, poor conditions of schools and equity issues related to opportunities provided to rural children. For quality education to be provided to the children of impoverished families,it is important to invest in educational scholarships, increasing access to academic sources, teacher training workshops, school building and improvement of water and electricity access to schools.

In line with the objective of increasing access to quality education for people worldwide, the Elsevier Foundation collaborates with a number of organizations and works on a number of projects to contribute to SDG 4. To know more about our initiatives, check out the articles below:

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"Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to creating sustainable development. In addition to improving quality of life, access to inclusive education can help equip locals with the tools required to develop innovative solutions to the world's greatest problems." (UN Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 4) In this day and age, over 265 million children are yet out of school worldwide.

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Sustainability and the real value of care in times of a global pandemic: SDG5 and Covid-19 - Discover Sustainability

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The pandemic Covid-19 has been affecting the global population, causing profound social and economic problems. The aim of this paper is to analyse the health crises from an ecological economic and a gender equality perspective in order to see how the pandemic is affecting Sustainable Development Goal 5 (gender equality) and particularly Target 5.2 which is about eliminating domestic violence and 5.4 which is about the valuation of unpaid care and domestic work. Secondary data, facts and thoughts from scientific papers and other documents are being reviewed to understand our socio-economic systems’ effects on the reproduction of nature and on social reproduction. Results show, that capitalist systems exploit regenerative and reproductive workers of the demonetized economy, such as nature, unpaid caregivers, peasants, and indigenous gatherers. These exploitative systems also have contributed to the rise of the new pandemic Covid-19 by destroying natural habitats. The virus might have some short-term positive effects on the environment, but the backbone of society’s response is unpaid care work, therefore women are being exploited even more. Conclusions are, that patriarchal characteristics, such as normalized systematic domination and oppression of women (and other regenerative and reproductive workers) are on the long run a burden for the SDGs.

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atlas of the sustainable development goals

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Rebuilding education systems after COVID-19: How the pandemic has impacted schooling and learning

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Progress towards SDG 4, which aims to provide high-quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all children, was severely disrupted by COVID-19.