ABSTRACT
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015, seeks to bring about a more just and equitable world for everyone, with the needs of the most disadvantaged addressed as a matter of priority. The commitment to “leave no one behind” is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda. The first step in operationalizing this principle is identifying who are the most marginalized and how they fare on key markers of well-being, particularly in comparison to other groups in society. In this chapter, we use 2017 GIS data from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey to identify inequalities among women and girls. Mapping multiple deprivations that are spatial in nature reveals that being in a remote rural area or urban slum in Pakistan is associated with poverty, unavailability of improved water, and/or sanitation facilities and a lack of access to health facilities. The multi-dimensional maps derived from this analysis puts into sharp focus the tendency of deprivations to cluster together and bolsters the call for an interdependent approach to the 2030 Agenda and its 17 development goals.
