While the Millennium Development Goals were seen as targets for the developing world, all countries will be expected to work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. and their alignment with the investment strategies of G20, were examined in the final session of the conference ‘Inclusiveness, investment, implementation’. The indomitable Sharan Burrow explained how developing countries have pushed for wider definitions of poverty alleviation within the SDG framework, where stable israel rcs data livelihoods are created through jobs and inclusive growth, and governments become more open and accountable. Too many people in the world lack basic services, voice, security and a fair chance in life, and the SDGs will explicitly promote equal access to justice, peaceful societies and effective government that responds to people’s needs.
Quality data are central to the SDG blueprint which aims to ‘increase significantly the availability of high quality, timely and reliable data’ to measure progress towards the goals. The final set of Sustainable Development Goals (probably 17) and their indicators (around 169) will be drafted this Sept and we will be blogging more about them then.