ISGlobal and the Sustainable Development Goals
On September 2015 world leaders agreed 17 Sustainable Development Goals that will mean a better life for everyone, everywhere. This agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity that will stimulate action over the next fifteen years. They are a global commitment to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, improve health, enable equality, tackle climate change and much more. It calls on public and private organisations to turn words into action in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet:
Our vision and mission at ISGlobal and the work of our people are aligned with the following goals:
GOAL 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
GOAL 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
GOAL 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
GOAL 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
GOAL 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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
GOAL 1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.a
Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.b
Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
GOAL 3
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
3.1
By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
3.2
By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
3.3
By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases
3.4
By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
3.7
By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
3.8
Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
3.9
By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
GOAL 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
5.6
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
GOAL 11
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
11.6
By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management
GOAL 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
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
16.6
Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
16.7
Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
16.8
Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
16.10
Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
16.a
Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime
GOAL 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Finance
17.3
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
Technology
17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.7
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.8
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
Capacity-Building
17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
Systemic issues
Policy and Institutional coherence
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
Multi-stakeholder partnerships
17.16
Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
Data, monitoring and accountability
17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.
