Sustainable Development Goal
5

Gender Equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Goal 5 Targets

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

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

5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decisionmaking in political, economic and public life

5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

5.A Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

5.B Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

5.C Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.

SourceUN Sustainable Development

Implementing partners

Botswana Ministry of Justice
Botswana Ministry of Finance
Botswana Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
Botswana Ministry of Transport and Public Works
Botswana Ministry of Health
Botswana Ministry of Education and Skills Development
Botswana Ministry of Environment and Tourism
Botswana Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender
Botswana Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Botswana Ministry of Youth, Gender, Sport and Culture
Botswana Ministry of Agriculture
Botswana National Planning Commission
Botswana Office of the Ombudsman
Skillshare
Botswana National AIDS and Health Promotion Agency
Botswana Women Against Rape
Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations
Botswana Ministry of Entrepreneurship

Investing Partners

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN Women
United Nations Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS Secretariat
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
United Nations Population Fund
United Nations Children's Fund
The Joint SDG Fund
The Global Environment Facility
Botswana Ministry of Finance
Botswana Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
Botswana Ministry of Youth, Gender, Sport and Culture
Botswana National AIDS and Health Promotion Agency