Calendar
2016
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Member states of the United Naons pledged to leave no one behind when they came together in September 2015 to agree on the post-2015 global development agenda that seeks to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what it did not achieve. This ambious agenda proposes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that seek to address the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental development. Issues addressed include ending poverty and hunger, improving health and educaon, making cies more sustainable, combang climate change, protecng oceans and forests, realizing the human rights of all, achieving gender equality and, the empowerment of all women and girls. We believe that eliminang gender based discriminaon and ensuring women’s equality and empowerment is a crical pre-condion to realise this global agenda as women make up more than half of the world’s populaon. We therefore call upon all stakeholders to act in collaboraon and partnership to implement the SDGs. This calendar takes a closer look at global goals and targets directly aecng women and girls in Sri Lanka and highlights some crical issues that must be addressed now if we are to achieve these goals by 2030. This calendar has been developed by the Women and Media Collecve (WMC) with support from the Asian - Pacic Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW). For informaon on the content of this calendar and to nd out more about women and the SDGs, please contact:
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Produced by Women and Media Collective
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Written by Evangeline de Silva
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Designed by Velayudan Jayachithra
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Printed by Globe Printing Works
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Poya Day Public & Bank Holiday Merchantile Holiday
Tamil Thai Pongal DayDuruthu Full Moon Poya Day
Current Reality
Recent poverty indices for Sri Lanka indicate a steady decline in the national poverty head count ratio. It achieved middle-income status and is also categorized as a country with high human development. However, there are economic and social disadvantages that compel women to bear a disproportionate share of the burden of poverty. Among these are economic and social deprivations faced by war widows, female headed households, women in the Estate/Plantation sectors, women with disabilities, elderly women, unskilled manual women labourers, women engaged in seasonal jobs, women migrant workers and women marginally above the poverty line who are without sustainable sources of income.
SDG Target
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By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate
new technology and nancial services, including micronance.
What Sri Lanka Wants
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Development of a gender responsive poverty eradication policy, addressing the needs of vulnerable and marginalized women.
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Holistic interventions for poverty eradication by government and private sector stakeholders.
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Sex disaggregated statistics on poverty in all economic sectors.
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