
Toward 2015: mixed progress on women and development
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.