Concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)

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Concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)

 

Concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.

3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.

4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.

7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.

10. Reduce inequality within and among countries.

11.Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (taking note of agreements made by the UNFCCC forum).

14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

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.

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.

17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

 

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Country initiatives in achieving the SDGs planning process

The Government has integrated the SDGs into its 7th Five Year Plan 2016-2020 (7FYP), which reflects its core sustainable development goals (see Table 1). Although it has been remarkably successful in reducing poverty in the last decades, a quarter of the population are still living below the poverty line. SDGsIntegrate Issues (Development Targets)
SDG1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Reduction in the head-count poverty ratio by about 6.2 percentage points (from 24.8% to 18.6%) Reduction in extreme poverty by about 4.0 percentage points (i.e., 8.9% in 2020)
  • Spending on Social Protection as a share of GDP to be increased to 2.3%
  • Creation of a Lagging Region Fund
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
  • Consolidation of Food Transfer Programme as suggested by National Social Security Programme
  • Reduce proportion of stunting among under-5 children from 36.1% to 25%
  • Reduce proportion of underweight children among under-5 children from 32.6% to 20%
SDG 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing For all at all ages.
  • Under-5 mortality rate to be reduced from 41 to 37 per 1000 live births
  • Maternal Mortality Ratio to be reduced from 170 to 105 per 100,000 live births
  • Immunization, measles (% of children under 12 months) to be increased to 100%
  • Births attended by skilled health staff to be increased to 65%
  • Reduction of Total Fertility Rate to 2.0
  • Increasing Contraceptive Prevalence Rate to 75%
SDG 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
  • Achieving 100% net enrollment rate for primary and secondary education
  • Ensure quality education at primary, secondary and tertiary education
  • Percentage of cohort reaching grade 5 to be increased to 100% from current 80%.
SDG 13, Take urgent action to com- bat climate change and its impacts.
  • Environmental, Climate Change and disaster risk reduction considerations are integrated into project design, budgetary allocations and implementation process
  • 500-meter wide green belt to be established and protected along the coast
SDG 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
  • Develop law & regulations in pollution control including sea vessel and ship breaking industries
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, ac- countable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
  • To ensure all persons are able to live securely under the rule of law.
  • Enhancing Integrity & Controlling Corruption
  • Strengthen Right to Information (RTI) and Access to Information process.
  • Making parliamentary process effective
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
  • Develop effective Aid Information Management System (AIMS)
  • Ensure development partners’ policy alignment and system harmonization
  • Effective national Policy on Development. Cooperation to guide development cooperation in Bangladesh

 

End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Lead Ministries or Agencies
Cabinet Division & General Economic Division-GED.
Associate Ministries or Agencies
Economic Relation Division, Local Govt. Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Forest, Social Welfare, Fisheries & Livestock, Industries and Disaster Management and Relief etc.
Action to achieve SDG in 7FYP period
Reduce extreme poverty by 4.0 percentage points to 8.9% by 2020.
List of Policy Instruments for SDG achievement
National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) 2015.
Proposed global indicator to measure performance
Proportion of Population below international poverty line by sex, age and employment status by location.

Concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)

 

Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages

Lead Ministries or Agencies
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW
Associate Ministries or Agencies
  • Local Govt. Department, Ministry of Social Welfare, Women and Children Affairs, Information and Statistics & Informatics Division etc.
Action to achieve SDG in 7FYP period
  • Provision of Antenatal Care (ANC) services for all pregnant women including TT. Training of Community Skilled Birth Attendant (CSBAs)
  • Expansion of Comprehensive Obstetric and Neonatal Care (CEMOC) in more Sub-district level health complexes. Piloting of demand- side financing through providing maternal vouchers. Demand creation for utilization of ANC, Post Natal Care (PNC) and institutional deliveries etc.
Policy Instruments for SDG achievement
  • National Health Policy-2011 and Bangladesh Population Policy-2012
Proposed global indicator to measure performance
  • Maternal Mortality Ratio, Under-5 mortality rate and rate of skill birth attendant etc.

 

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