The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the International Community in 2015 establish a holistic agenda with goals, targets and indicators to be achieved by 2030.
Contrary to belief, the SDGs are not a United Nations agenda. The responsibility for implementing them relies on everyone: individuals, groups, private and public businesses, governments, regional and international organizations, NGOs, and multi-stakeholders.
Every singly sector of society is affected and should be interested in achieving these SDGs.
It is about the survival of earth and humanity.
How can we achieve SDGs?
Inform and communicate well on the framework underpinning SDGs.
Eagerly anticipate what is needed to achieve these goals.
Accelerate the mandates of every entity responsible or interested in achieving sustainability.
The term “holistic agenda” is used because the SDGs are part of a unique framework. The SDGs reinforce each other, and while targets of a single SDG are often prioritized, other SDGs will be impacted by the activities focused on any single SDG.
A number of SDGs intertwine on climate change. Other SDGs relate to priorities not met before 2015 … like education and poverty reduction. Still others indicate the need to focus on equal opportunity, good governance and the rule of law to achieve and maintain peace.
Partnership is the method required to achieve the SDGs by 2030. Nobody alone can achieve such goals, which respond to the needs of humanity, given their articulation and complexity.
These SDGs were not decided in closed offices, but from an evaluation of what was not achieved by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the previous decade. The MDGs resulted from an iterative process involving consultations with the field and stakeholders.
It is useful to recall in that regard that there was no global agenda before 2000. The MDGs started a new phase for multilateral cooperation, collective action, and global monitoring and evaluation.
North-south, South-south and Triangular cooperation (NS/SSTC) should be preferred to bilateral cooperation, which has not been sufficient to deal with the major challenges determined by rapid digital, demographic and climate change transitions.
Our services boost skills to achieve sustainability by reducing the length of time for the internal decision making process. We can also increase efficiency by focusing on the necessary skills to achieve the mandates of each organization.