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This paper criticizes the post-2015 High Level Panel (HLP) report, arguing that it insufficiently addresses poverty, environmental degradation, and inequality around the world by over-emphasizing the role of the private sector. Concerned with the narrow visions of womens and girls' empowerment and gender equality in the report, AWID calls for a 1 structural transformation and the political will for change. AWID argues that there are shortcomings in the HLP report: failure to centralize women's rights and gender equality in every goal and outcome of the post-2015 agenda, failure to address multiple and intersecting inequalities, and failure to mention the need for financial economic justice and gender equality. The article concludes with eight recommendations that AWID argues decision-makers involved in the post-2015 and
sustainable development goals process should consider as the agenda unfolds.