New York: Official Side Event to CSW62 12.03.2018 WECF together with UN Women and the German Ministry of Development Cooperation (Bundesministerium für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit) convened a side event with the title "Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN in New York. At the heart of the event was the presentation of the UN Women report “Turning Promises into Action” which had already been launched in Berlin, Nairobi and New York in February 2018.  The event was set up as a panel discussion sharing key lessons from the flagship report of UN Women on gender equality within the Agenda 2030 and bringing together experiences from governments, intergovernmental organisations from Jordan and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as grassroots organisations from Kyrgyzstan and Uganda. The event specifically discussed the monitoring of the progress on gender equality within the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The importance of gender disaggregated data as well as a more gender inclusive indicator framework and a robust monitoring scheme were identified as key factors for the gender-responsive SDGs implementation. WECF’s partner Aijzamal Bakaishova from Alga in Kyrgyzstan presented results of [...]