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Sustainable Development Goals; Goal 4: Quality Education: Goal 4: Quality Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Since 2000, there has been enormous progress in achieving the target of universal primary education. The total enrolment rate in developing regions reached 91 percent in 2015, and the worldwide number of.
Sustainable Development Goals. Goal 5: Gender equality. Goal 5: Gender equality. Ending all discrimination against women and girls is not only a basic human right, it’s crucial for sustainable future; it’s proven that empowering women and girls helps economic growth and development. UNDP has made gender equality central to its work and we’ve seen remarkable progress in the past 20 years.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an unprecedented agreement among the member states. In comparison to the Millennium Development Goals which targeted developing countries, the SDGs are global in nature and universally applicable, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities.
Reaching for the SDGS: The Untapped Potential of Tanzania’s Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector, a new World Bank diagnostic, shows that with WASH inextricably linked with human development, several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will not be reached without an improvement in WASH. For example, the report notes that targets outlined in SDG-6, which aims to ensure the.
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services based upon which the economy and society depend. The desired result is a state of society where living conditions and resources are used to continue to meet human needs without undermining.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the set of 17 agreed goals which all 193 UN member states have committed to that will guide policy and funding for the next 15 years. According to the World Bank, around 1 billion people still live in extreme poverty and more than 800 million people do not have enough food to eat.
Since the turn of the 1990s many international development and policy-making organisations have perceived the tourism industry, with its local and regional connections, as a high-potential tool for putting sustainable development into practice. The capacity of tourism to work for sustainable development was highlighted in relation to the United Nations’ SDGs, which were adopted in 2015. The.