The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women

Hossain, Naomi

Abstract

This chapter describes Bangladesh’s successes with advancing gender equality in the period of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), locating their origins in elite commitment to including women in the development process, and in the partnerships and aid that built the state and NGO capacity to reach them. The chapter reflects on the lessons of Bangladesh’s innovative and unexpected advances in the light of the new challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably those of early marriage and the achievement of decent work. The chapter asks whether contemporary conditions suggest that the elite commitment and state capacity that drove progress on the MDGs are up to meeting the more contentious and complex goals of the SDGs.

Citation

Hossain, N. (2020). The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women. In S. Chaturvedi, H. Janus, S. Klingebiel, X. Li, A. de Mello e Souza, E. Sidiropoulos, & D. Wehrmann (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda: Contested Collaboration (453-474). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_21

• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Oct 12, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 12, 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 453-474
• Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda: Contested Collaboration
• ISBN: 9783030579388
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_21
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_21