the following sections explore the global landscape and international development interventions in more depth section highlights data on gender equality and inequality section explores the normative underpinnings that pledge protection of women s rights and gender equality globally section describes the major international development approaches to addressing these challenges in the past decade from women in development to gender and development to gender mainstreaming as set out in the beijing platform for action section highlights the post environment covering the mdgs the emerging aid effectiveness frameworks and the politics of gender in international development nearly half of the world s population billion people lives in poverty on less than a day