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HLPF Side Event - Getting SDG 5 Back on Track: Lessons from COVID-19 for a World in Turmoil

As "Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021" makes clear, women and girls remain disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling with lost jobs and livelihoods, derailed education and increased burdens of unpaid care work. Women’s health services have faced major disruptions, undermining women’s sexual and reproductive health. And despite women’s central roles in responding to COVID-19, they have been largely excluded from decision-making during the pandemic. As a result, progress on SDG 5 targets is lagging far behind. Getting the SDGs back on track will require Governments to implement gender-responsive policy measures, while the climate crisis is escalating in severity.

A new report by UN-Women and UNDP, "Government Responses to COVID-19: Lessons on gender equality for a world in turmoil" analyses the extent to which policymaking during the pandemic has taken women’s rights and needs into account. Based on a unique dataset of nearly 5,000 measures by Governments in 226 countries and territories in the past two years, it identifies the key lessons from the COVID-19 response and makes concrete recommendations. Such measures will be critical to enhance resilience and preparedness for future crises, get the SDGs back on track and chart a forward-looking agenda on recovery and the achievement of SDGs.

This side event at the HLPF, co-organized by UN Women, UNDP and ILO, will bring together a panel of policymakers, UN agencies and civil society to assess progress on SDG 5, and to analyze governments responses to COVID-19 from a gender perspective.

Jul 7, 2022 07:30 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)