Guest blog: SDG 5 and the HLPF process - just singing and dancing in circles or actually moving?
Guest blog from Gabriele Köhler, independent
researcher, UNRISD senior research associate and board member, Women Engage for
a Common Future. The HLPF process has come under
critique for being an insiders’ airbrushing exercise. So the question is: what
is the normative role and impact of the 2030 Agenda? Is there any real pressure
from a UN document which after all is now a few years old now, was elaborated
by more progressive governments, does
not get ratified in parliaments, and is not binding? Is it all just fancy but
futile song and dance? Well, a number of countries have
actually used the 2030 Agenda and its more narrow set of SDGs to influence their
domestic policy frameworks. One intriguing case in point is Germany – one of
the GDP-richest economies in the world and, for this year and next, in a
rotating seat at the Security Council, with an internationally-projected positive image as the country of the
Energiewende (energy shift to renewables), and one of the protagonists of
fem…
