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UNDP Turkey Gender Equality Strategy 2017-2020
UNDP Turkey Gender Equality Strategy 2017-2020
January 21, 2020
Gender equality is an essential part of human rights, which is one of the main pillars of the United Nations (UN) System, in addition to human security and sustainable development.
Gender equality is also an important part of development progress and a prerequisite to advance human development. It is central to the mandate of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); intrinsic to its development approach; increasingly recognized both as an essential development goal on its own and as vital to accelerating sustainable development overall.
Human development approach requires expanding the human welfare and cannot be reduced into economic welfare. Attaining human development requires multifaceted approaches that will encompass not only economic prosperity but also improve people’s well-being by ensuring an equitable, sustainable and stable planet and which aims to greater wellbeing for all. In this approach gender equality becomes one on the main target as well as a cross cutting issue for all targets.