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Sustainable Development Goals
Over the past 15 years, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have provided the global community a set of
goals, targets and tools to monitor progress towards health and development in countries. But, as the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) reach their December 2015 deadline , a new set of inclusive and universal Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) have been adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 as a
part of the Post 2015 Development Agenda and which came into effect on 1st January 2016. The new Sustainable
Development Agenda seeks to ensure that the momentum generated by the millennium development goals is
carried forward beyond 2015 to achieve not just substantial reductions in poverty, hunger and other deprivations
but finally end them to provide a life of dignity to all.
Sustainable Development Agenda consists of 17 Goals and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030.
Goal 1.
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Goal 2.
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Goal 3.
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Goal 4.
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Goal 5.
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Goal 6.
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Goal 7.
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Goal 8.
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and
decent work for all.
Goal 9.
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
Goal 10.
Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Goal 11.
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Goal 12.
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
Goal 14.
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Goal 15.
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests,
combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Goal 16.
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all
and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Goal 17.
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable
Development.