The document discusses the United Nations post-2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals (SDGs) and their relation to family needs. It provides an overview of the SDGs, which were proposed in 2014 and cover 17 social, economic, and environmental goals. It notes that all SDGs relate directly or indirectly to family needs. Specifically, it examines SDG 5 on gender equality and empowering women and girls, focusing on Target 5.4 on recognizing unpaid care work and Target 5.b on enhancing technology to promote women's empowerment. The next steps are to determine indicators to measure progress on these targets and finalize and implement the new development agenda by the 2015 UN summit.

1. United Nations
Post-2015 Development Agenda
and Family Needs
Eric Olson
Senior Economic Affairs Officer
Department of Economic and Social Affairs

2. Presentation
Purpose: Present link between homecare and
family needs to the forthcoming United
Nations post-2015 development agenda
•Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
•SDGs and family needs

3. Characteristics
• United:
– unites poverty eradication (MDGs) and sustainable
development (Rio+20)
• Universal:
– applies to all countries
• Inclusive:
– no one is left behind
• Holistic:
– integrates social, economic and environmental
Post-2015 Development Agenda

4. • Core of post-2015 development agenda
• Proposed in 2014: 17 goals with 169 targets
• Covers social, economic and environmental
• Adoption: UN summit in September 2015
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

5. Social:
SDG 1: End poverty
2: End hunger
3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-
being for all at all stages
4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality
education and promote life-long learning
opportunities for all
5: Achieve gender equality and empower all
women and girls
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

6. Economic:
SDG 6: Water and sanitation for all
7: Modern energy for all
8: Ensure economic growth, full and
productive employment and decent work
for all
9: Infrastructure, sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation
10: Reduce inequality within and among
countries
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

7. Environmental:
SDG 11: Sustainable cities and human settlements
12: Sustainable consumption and production
patterns
13: Combat climate change
14: Conserve and sustainably use oceans, seas
and marine resources
15: Sustainable ecosystems and forests, combat
desertification, halt land degradation and
biodiversity loss
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

8. SDG 16: Peaceful and inclusive societies, access to
justice for all, and effective and inclusive
institutions at all levels
17: Strengthen the means of implementation and
revitalize the global partnership for
sustainable development
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

9. • All SDGs relate to family, either directly or
indirectly
• United Nations Programme on the Family – focus on
family policy issues of:
– Decent work and work-family balance
– Intergenerational issues, e.g., care-giving, rights and
dignity of older persons
SDGs and family needs

10. SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all
women and girls
–Target 5.4
• “recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work
through the provision of public services, infrastructure
and social protection policies, and the promotion of
shared responsibility within the household and the
family as nationally appropriate”
–Target 5.b
• “enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular
ICT, to promote women’s empowerment”
SDGs and family needs

11. • Next step: Determining indicators
• For example, how to to measure targets 5.4 and 5b:
• recognition and value of unpaid care and domestic work
• the provision of public services, infrastructure and
social protection policies and the promotion of shared
responsibility with in the household and family
• the enhancement of enabling technologies
SDGs and family needs

12. • Decision on indicators for the SDGs and their targets
• Adoption of new agenda – UN summit in September
2015
• Implementation by all countries and their partners
• Advocacy
Next steps – SDGs and new agenda

13. Thank you!
For more information:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/beyond2015-
overview.shtml