Consultations on the World Bank Gender Strategy 2024-2030: Accelerate Gender Equality for a Sustainable, Resilient, and Inclusive Future (2024)

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What is the World Bank strategy 2024? ›

The WBG Gender Strategy 2024-30 puts forward the bold ambition to accelerate gender equality to end poverty on a livable planet in alignment with the World Bank Group Evolution Roadmap. The strategy responds to the global urgency, fundamentality, and complexity of achieving gender equality.

This goal ensures that all girls and boys complete free primary and secondary schooling by 2030. It also aims to provide equal access to affordable vocational training, to eliminate gender and wealth disparities, and achieve universal access to a quality higher education.

The Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030: ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. These goals need to be pursued in a sustainable manner: socially, economically, and environmentally. We will achieve them in three ways: 1.

In its Strategy 2030, ADB committed to promote gender equality in at least 75% of all projects and programs, focusing on five areas: women's economic empowerment, gender equality in human development, gender equality in decision-making and leadership, reduced time poverty of women, and women's resilience to external ...

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2024—The global economy is expected to stabilize for the first time in three years in 2024—but at a level that is weak by recent historical standards, according to the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report.

Most worrying topics worldwide 2024

Inflation was the most worrying topic worldwide as of August 2024, with one third of the respondents choosing that option. Poverty and social inequality as well as crime and violence followed behind.

SDG 5 is focused on pursuing the main goal of real and sustained gender equality in all aspects of women and girls' lives which includes (1) ending gender disparities, (2) eliminating violence against women and girls' lives, (3) eliminating early and forced marriage, (4) securing equal participation and opportunities ...

The Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seek to end poverty and hunger, realise the human rights of all, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources.

What is one of two goals the World Bank wants to achieve by 2030? ›

The World Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030: End extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.90 a day to no more than 3% Promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country.

A Vision for Sustainable Development: The World Bank Group's Strategic Framework. In an era marked by pressing environmental challenges and widening inequality, the World Bank Group's strategy to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity stands as a beacon of hope and action.

The world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030 and has been pushed further off track by the socioeconomic fallout of the pandemic. Women and girls remain disproportionately affected, struggling with lost jobs and livelihoods, derailed education, increased burdens of unpaid care work and domestic violence.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development including the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in September 2015. It includes a stand-alone goal on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls (SDG 5).

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was launched by a UN Summit in New York on 25-27 September 2015 and is aimed at ending poverty in all its forms. The UN 2030 Agenda envisages “a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination”.

Under the theme “Vision to Impact,” the meetings showcased the progress the Bank Group has made in transforming itself, speeding up delivery, and working with partners to achieve greater scale.

Global recession outlook

There is now a 35% chance that the global economy will enter a recession by the end of 2024, and a 45% chance that it will do so by the end of 2025.

Our Mission. Our mission is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet.

A recent World Bank report titled "World Development Report 2024: The Middle Income Trap" has highlighted significant challenges faced by over 100 countries, including India, in achieving high-income status in the coming decades.