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Philippine Development Plan

Millennium Development Goals


o The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all
191 UN member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The
United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits
world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental
degradation, and discrimination against women. The MDGs are derived from
this Declaration, and all have specific targets and indicators.
o The Eight Millennium Development Goals are:
 to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
 to achieve universal primary education;
 to promote gender equality and empower women;
 to reduce child mortality;
 to improve maternal health;
 to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases;
 to ensure environmental sustainability; and
 to develop a global partnership for development.
o The MDGs are inter-dependent; all the MDGs influence health, and health
influences all the MDGs. For example, better health enables children to learn
and adults to earn. Gender equality is essential to the achievement of better
health. Reducing poverty, hunger and environmental degradation positively
influences, but also depends on, better health.

 Source: https://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/about/en/

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Source: https://www.gavi.org/our-alliance/global-health-development/millennium-
development-goals

 Sustainable Development Goals


o The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United
Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and
prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are
the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for
action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership.
They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-
hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality,
and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to
preserve our oceans and forests.
o The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and
more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face,
including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental
degradation, peace and justice. The 17 Goals are all interconnected, and in
order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve them all by 2030.
o The 17 Goals:
 GOAL 1: NO POVERTY
 End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
 Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs
and promote equality.
 GOAL 2: ZERO HUNGER
 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture.
 The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for
development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication.
 GOAL 3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
 Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all
ages are essential to sustainable development.
 GOAL 4: QUALITY EDUCATION
 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote
lifelong learning opportunities for all.
 Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving
people’s lives and sustainable development.
 GOAL 5: GENDER EQUALITY
 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
 Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a
necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and
sustainable world.
 GOAL 6: CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

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 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all.
 Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world
we want to live in.
 GOAL 7: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy for all.
 Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and
opportunity.
 GOAL 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth,
full and productive employment and decent work for all.
 Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the
conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.
 GOAL 9: INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable
industrialization and foster innovation.
 Investments in infrastructure are crucial to achieving sustainable
development.
 GOAL 10: REDUCED INEQUALITIES
 Reduce inequality within and among countries.
 To reduce inequalities, policies should be universal in principle,
paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and
marginalized populations.
 GOAL 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and
sustainable.
 There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities
for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing,
transportation and more.
 GOAL 12: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
 Responsible Production and Consumption.
 GOAL 13: CLIMATE ACTION
 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
 Climate change is a global challenge that affects everyone,
everywhere.
 GOAL 14: LIFE BELOW WATER
 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine
resources for sustainable development.
 Careful management of this essential global resource is a key
feature of a sustainable future.
 GOAL 15: LIFE ON LAND

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 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial
ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat
desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt
biodiversity loss.
 Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and
reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss.
 GOAL 16: PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, provide access to justice for all and build
effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
 Access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable
institutions at all levels.
 GOAL 17: PARTNERSHIPS
 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the
global partnership for sustainable development.
 Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

Sources:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Source: https://tykn.tech/sdgs-sustainable-development-goals/

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o What does it take for the SDGs to be achieved?
 Since all 17 goals are big challenges, it will require a lot of effort from
both the international community but also from the citizens of the
world.
 Here are 5 recommendations from Ortwin Renn, Managing Scientific
Director at Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Potsdam, as to how to achieve these goals:
 Take it step-by-step.
 Think regional, not global.
 Work from bottom-up.
 Strategically balance conflicting objectives.
 Use stories to drive change.
 In summary, it will take a lot of continuous efforts, funding and
perseverance for the SDGs to be achieved.
o How can I help the SDGs?
 Goals such as fighting for equality, stop climate change and eradicate
extreme poverty can be overwhelming. It is easy to feel very small and
powerless when facing these 17 goals. But change starts with you and
with little actions that all of us can undertake every day.
 On the individual level, you too can help achieve the SDGs. Here are,
from the UN’s Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World, just a few of
the examples you could partake in:
 Turn off the lights when you don’t need them.
 Speak up to your local governments to engage in new initiatives
that don’t harm the people or the planet.
 Recycle.
 Replace old appliances with energy-efficient models and light
bulbs.
 Donate what you don’t use.
 Use refillable water bottles and coffee cups.
 Voice your support for equal pay for equal work.
 Encourage your company to work with the civil society and find
ways to help local communities achieve their goals.

Source: https://tykn.tech/sdgs-sustainable-development-goals/

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