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SDG Blog 1 : Gender Equality in Nepal.

The United Nations is an international organization that maintains peace, stability and works for the welfare of the nations. In 2015, United Nations set 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve with its member. Among those Sustainable Development Goals, I chose number 5 (Achieve Gender’s equality and empower women). Gender inequalities are intensely rooted in our society. Gender inequalities vary around the world and major facts that contribute to gender inequalities is religious norms and traditions (Klingorová K., Havlíček T, 2015), which can be seen mainly in the South Asian countries like India and Nepal.  

    Nepal is a landlocked country located between India and China. Hinduism is followed by the majority of the population over there. Religion states that it is important to respect women, but the crucial role of women is to look after the family as a mother, wife, and daughter. Religion has limited the roles of women inside the household only and that has caused inequalities till today (Klingorová K., Havlíček T, 2015). Nepal is also an active member of the UN and has accepted all the SDG goals.

    Nepal Government is actively addressing the issue of gender inequalities. The first plan they implemented was encouraging women in politics and in policymaking. In this plan, 33 percent of seats are guaranteed by the constitution for a women candidate. It is from the federal to the local level. The Ministry of women, children, and social welfare is run by women (Opinion | Gender Inequality Continues to Plague Nepal, 2019). The Constitution of Nepal was promulgated at the same time when SDGs were adopted so, the Constitution is aligned with the SDG’s goal.

    The other SDC plan is to provide access to education to all the pupils. Various organizations are working actively to increase girl’s enrollment from school to college level. They have formed two documents National Framework for Education 2030 and National Strategy for the Development of Education Statistics (NSDES) to monitor the enrollment of girls in school. These two documents provide plans and results of the enrollments to all three government levels (National Review of Sustainable Development Goals, 2020).  Nepal has prepared their report mentioning the cost to implement Sustainable Development Goal which is about USD 19 Billion. Nepal is a landlocked country so, climate change is one of the major challenges. Sustainable use of resources and adaptation to climate change is another important area for Nepal (National Review of Sustainable Development Goals, 2020).

  If the implementation of the strategy becomes effective at its current rate, it is hopeful that Nepal will be able to reach its SDG goal by 2030. 

References

Klingorová, K., & Havlíček, T. (2015). Religion and gender inequality: The status of women in the societies of world religions, Moravian Geographical Reports, 23(2), 2-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0006

Opinion | Gender inequality continues to plague Nepal. (2019, December 12). Retrieved from February 20, 2021, from https://kathmandupost.com/editorial/2019/12/12/gender-inequality-continues-to-plague-nepal#:%7E:text=With%20a%20Gender%20Inequality%20Index,before%20it%20attains%20gender%20equality.

National Review of Sustainable Development Goals. (2020, June). National Planning Commission. Retrieved from February 20, 2021, from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/26541VNR_2020_Nepal_Report

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2021 at 8:03 PM

    I did not know Nepal religion Hinduism stated the importance of respecting women. And I did not know how limited the women were of doing things. I like the fact that in their constitution women are placed in powerful rolls. And to have women that are in political roles and that they have a guaranteed 30 three seats to make these types of decisions is amazing. I think for me it is the first time I ever heard of a country making sure that women are put first on paper and not just saying it. I like that their constitution in SDG alliance together in that there's no second guessing or misguidance of information of how they should deal with helping women become equals to their male counterparts. another cool thing is that they're monitoring girls in school and making sure that they are attending or seeing how many are attending but it's really amazing hey I can say that Nepal is making sure that there gender equality goals will be reached by 2030 and if not they'll be very close to it .

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