Accountability upside down: gender equality in a partnership for poverty eradication

Examination of the relationship between reviews of the Beijing Platfrom for Action and the MDG's

By: M van Reisen
Produced by: Social Watch, 2005

This report argues that the ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) must be linked to the review process of the and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as it provides a major input into the that process. The report specifically makes the link with MDG 8 – advocating a global partnership to eradicate poverty - and highlights the need to bring the well-established connection between poverty eradication and gender equality to the centre of that partnership.