SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FORWOMEN’S FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE & EMPOWERMENT:OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a new, universal set of goals, targets and indicators that UN member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and political policies over the next 15 years. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) follow and expand on the millennium development goals (MDGs). This paper addresses them in Six Parts in which MDG 3 – its targets, achievements, best practices and gaps and SDG 5 and its proposed targets and indicators, implementation framework for the Indian State, financing, technical architecture for monitoring targets, indicators, evidence and lessons emerging from best practices, where possible, are sought to be addressed. This paper is organized as: Section second gives achievements under MDG 3 and the identified gaps that still remain. Section third discusses designing and adoption of SDGs. Section fourth discusses SDG 5 and targets and proposed indicators while the architecture for development and monitoring of SDGs, particularly SDG 5 is presented in Section fifth. Finally, the way ahead and suggestions for action at India level are given in Section sixth.