Mind the Gap Women

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Mind the Gap Womens realities Policy aims
Development goals

• Meena Shivdas

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MDGs

• Poverty and hunger
• Education
• Gender equality womens empowerment
• Child mortality
• Maternal health
• HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis
• Environment sustainability
• Global partnership

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MDGs Taking Stock

• Uneven pace of progress
• Number of people living in extreme poverty halved
  
• Hunger reduction target within reach
• Two billion people have gained access to improved
  drinking water

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MDGs Taking Stock

• HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis targets
  impressive
• Treatment for tuberculosis saved more than 20
  million lives between 1995 and 2011
• Good progress in elimination of gender gaps in
  primary school enrolment
• Socio-cultural factors continue to affect
  retention of girls at school

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MDGs Taking Stock

• Targets on womens paid employment and political
  representation performing poorly
• Maternal mortality targets furthest away from
  reach
• 99 per cent of maternal deaths occur in
  developing countries - the largest health-related
  disparity between high and low income countries

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MDGs Taking Stock

• Despite significant progress, 19,000 children
  under 5 still died every day in 2011
• Nearly 57 million children are still out of
  school, concentrated in two regions, sub-Saharan
  Africa and South Asia

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Where are the Women?

• Women the culture of silence
• disappearing numbers in bride-burning in India
• The missing South African woman
• The invisible unpaid HIV carers
• How do we address policy silence?

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Breaking the silence with womens self-help
groups

• Story of Kalanjiam Foundations health insurance
  for poor, marginalised communities
• pre-literate, poor and subordinate rural women
  show the way