Targets of SDG 5: Gender Equality
The Integration of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality in Cambodia 2015-2019
Importance of Topic
Why is the topic important?
How has the localization of SDG 5:Gender Equality, into Cambodia's national context affect the political, social, and economic realm of the country between 2015 and 2019?
- Lack of global awareness
- Update on current implementation plans
What motivated the research question?
The way to answer the research question
- Personal Experience
- Lack of literature
- Analysing the aims of the SDG 5: Gender Equality and comparing them to statistics between 2015-2019
- Researching implementation plans of Gender Equality in Cambodia.
Targets of SDG 5: Gender Equality
Findings in Literature & Scholarly Writings
Topic
- Only three of 29 cabinet ministers are women.
- There are no women provincial governors.
- Women make up just 20 percent of National Assembly members
Conclusion
- The need for intervention to work with tradition and culture.
- Focus on the rural areas.
- Impact of History
- Hypothetical vs. Actual support and representation
- Sustainable Development Fund Organization Statistics
- Kyoko Kusakabe (2005) Gender mainstreaming in government offices in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos: Perspectives from below, Gender & Development, 13:2, 46-56, DOI: 10.1080/13552070512331332286
- Grown, Caren and Bahadur, Chadrika and Handbury, Jessie and Elson, Diane, The Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (August 2006). Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 467. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=923851 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.923851
- Sovann, Rotvatey, Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Asian Journal of Women's Studies; Seoul Vol. 25, Iss. 2, (2019): 295-307
- Risenbruch, Violence Against Women in Cambodia: Towards a Culturally Reponsive Theory of Change, 2018. (Vol. 42: pages 350-370)
- Grown, Bahadur, Handbury, & Elson. The Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 467
- United Nations Development Program, Human Development Reports, Gender Inequality Index for Cambodia
- United Nations Development Program, Human Development Reports, Gender Development Index for Cambodia
- United Nations Development Program, Human Development Reports, Human Development Index for Cambodia.