Advocacy

This series explores those social, cultural and economic factors that could encourage progress toward achieving the third Millennium Development Goal to promote gender equality and empower women. Topics include decreasing violence against women, improving infrastructure and encouraging women's property ownership.

Other publications in this series:
Infrastructure Shortfalls Cost Poor Women Time and Opportunity
Property Ownership for Women Enriches, Empowers and Protects
 

This policy advisory outlines the research findings and policy recommendations from a study on youth and globalization in Thailand conducted by ICRW, Mahidol University and Princeton University.

The development community has recently called on Congress and the U.S. President to reform U.S. foreign assistance for the 21st century. ICRW and Women Thrive Worldwide endorse the community's call for a new and expanded U.S. strategy for global development and poverty reduction, and the authors of this brief assert that the reform agenda will be even more effective if it takes women into account.

This report provides background on international developments concerning anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, and on U.S. policy on the issue. It also outlines the key elements identified by leading international organizations as essential for successful scale-up of ARV treatment.

Gender equality and women’s empowerment is the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and must be integrated into each of the MDGs if all the development goals are to be met. The world community has the knowledge and technology to reduce gender inequalities and empower women. The U.N. Millennium Project’s Task Force on Education and Gender Equality has outlined seven strategic priorities that require action to meet Goal 3. This brief discusses these issues and includes excerpts from Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women, the 2005 report of the U.N. Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality.

From 2002 to 2005, ICRW led a high-level collaborative process to devise a seven-point strategy to achieve Goal 3 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which aims to promote gender equality and empower women. As a summary of a larger ICRW publication, Seven Priorities, Seven Years to Go: Progress on Achieving Gender Equality this brief focuses on the progress to date on this seven-point strategy.

Child marriage undermines current U.S. development efforts in health, nutrition and education programs. This brief offers recommendations of how U.S. policy can end this harmful practice.

This brief outlines the major challenges facing youth and highlights policy and program recommendations in the key issue areas of education and training, economic opportunities, and health and sexuality.