The Sustainable Development Goals: Sexual and Gender Minorities

This case study describes an educational cash transfer program in Punjab, Pakistan, that raised levels of girls’ schooling. The government of Punjab launched the Female School Stipend Program (FSSP) as part of a package of education reforms financed by the World Bank and other organizations in 2003. The program provided a families PKR600 (US$10) per quarter for each girl in grades 6 to 10 living in 15 districts with the lowest literacy rates. This case…

This report from the Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent (IAP) focuses on the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on mothers, newborns, young children, and adolescents. The report found that these populations are losing 20 percent of their health and social services in both wealthy and poor nations due to the pandemic. Global implementation for the United Nation’s 2030 Goal for Every Woman and Every Child, the global strategy for…

This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines key dimensions of a transformative leadership agenda needed to establish the realization of health and human rights for women, children, and adolescents. It outlines the importance of these populations for sustainable development and offers nine recommendations for leadership approaches that (1) create an enabling environment, (2) partner with people, and (3) strengthen evidence and public accountability. The report focuses on the human rights principles of equality,…