Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development
Goals
Umar wants SDGs status report
presented (Report)
● The second sub-committee of the National Economic Council (NEC) reviewed the
progress of the main SDGs on poverty, unemployment, health, education, and the
environment.
● Chief SDGs presented an overview, challenges, and proposed decisions to the forum.
● They also discussed the existing status of SDGs implementation, and way forward by
the government to align SDGs with the
● development framework in the country,
● and improve coordination for SDGs monitoring and reporting system.
● NEC proposed a task force to fill the gaps and will present the report in January 2022
● Minister Asad Umar said the SDGs Status Report is the first report
that should be presented at the NEC forum.
● NEC will present in January 2022 meeting about,
○ what progress was made to meet the 2030 milestones, and
○ what targets have to be set for the next three years apart from
the proposed framework to achieve all the goals.
● All technical support for the capacity building of Gilgit-Baltistan.
No Poverty
● People living in extreme poverty dropped by more than half between 1990 and
2015 – from 1.9 billion to 836 million.
● Pakistan has reached a 56.2% completion rate for the United Nations’
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
● Pakistan ranks 134th out of 193 countries, recent years have seen several
developments toward achieving SDG 1 in Pakistan.
● Introduced programs such as,
○ Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP)
○ Pakistan Bait-ul Mal, the Zakat and Ushr programmes, the Employees’
Old-Age Benefits Institution,
○ The Worker’s Welfare Funds and provincial Employees’ Social
Security Institutions.
● Since 2008, the BISP has disbursed PKR 267 billion (equivalent to USD 1.8
billion) to the poorest people in Pakistan.
● unconditional cash transfers to 5 million deserving families.
● BISP also offers Waseela-eTaleem programme for education, through
which over 2.2 million out-of-school children between 5 and 12 years of age,
from some of the country’s poorest families, have been enrolled in schools.
● A total of 2 million such children will be enrolled over the next two years.
● Expanding access to key services, such as the endowment fund for
education, scaling up nutrition and increasing the coverage of health
insurance (through Sehat Insaf Cards and Khidmat Cards)
○ expected to provide access to quality healthcare over 80 million
people in the coming years
● Panahgah (Shelter Homes) is another initiative for homeless and poor
segments of the society.
● Revamping skills development and self-employment schemes through youth
business loan initiatives have proven to be effective.
● Ehsaas is one of the largest programs launched for the poor in Pakistan.
○ organizations working on alleviating poverty
Policies to improve the progress
● Pakistan is committed to reducing poverty from 24.3 per cent to 19 per cent
by 2023, while reducing the multidimensional poverty headcount from 38.8
per cent to 30 per cent over the same period.
● Provincial social protection policies will be aligned with the provisions of the
national framework for developing social protection policies.
● This will involve the planned creation of a database on the segments most in
need, in order to ensure better targeting of poverty reduction measures.
● CSR initiatives will be enhanced with a view to reducing poverty, in
consultation with Pakistan’s corporate and private sectors.
● The Benazir Income Support Programme’s unconditional cash transfers
will be linked with inflation to shield beneficiaries from price shocks.
○ Quarterly payments will be enhanced for the poorest, to ensure that
transfers meet their needs.
● Planned efforts of the Ehsaas programme include liaising with,
○ the private sector, identifying which of their practices can be replicated in
the public sector, and
○ using policy levers through which the private sector can enhance its
impact.
● the Asian Development Bank will provide $603 million from a $1.5bn loan
agreement signed last month to strengthen and expand the Ehsaas
programme.
Recommendations/Suggestions
● Education should be provided to every Individual.
● Create good-paying jobs that meet family needs.
● Raise the minimum wage to ensure economic stability for all.
● Tax reduction for the poor and low income class.

Zero Hunger
● WFP (world food program) in partnership with the Government continues its
efforts to reduce stunting in Pakistan
● Ehsaas Langar program has also been initiated by the government of Pakistan
● To overcome the hunger and fulfill the need of the marginalized citizens
● The Government is working together with the Saylani Welfare Trust for the
Ehsaas Langar Program
● Pakistan has initiated sehat sahulat program which ensuring that the identified
under-privileged citizens across the country get access to their entitled
medical health care
Suggestion
● Eliminating hunger and malnutrition cannot be done by the governments alone;
this must involve coordinated actions by the civil society
● Climate change is now contributing to uncertain food production and lower
food quality
● Alternate food safety mechanisms are needed in the country to increase
community-resilience towards food insecurity and climate change challenges
Good Health and Well being
● National Economic Council (NEC) reviewed the progress of the main SDGs which
showed progress.
● By 2030, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents
● End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and reduce global maternal
mortality ratio
● Sehat sahulat program, Prime Minister National Health Program, through
which 360,000 online consultations have been done and upto 50,000PKR is
allotted. People who are earning less than 2$ per day are eligible to it.
● As 60 million Pakistanis have smartphones now apps like Marham app and
Sehat Kahaani have emerged
Suggestion
● First and foremost, we should start with ourselves and take covid more
seriously. As long as more variants exist progress is going to decline, regardless
of efforts on the government’s part.
● More schemes to digitize Pakistan should be worked on as that will eliminate
all communication gaps.
Quality Education
● Secondary schools, the government is working to improve pandemic restraint.
● Article 25-A of Pakistan's Constitution requires the government to offer free
and obligatory quality education to children aged 5 to 16.
● Pakistan now spends roughly 2.2 percent of its GDP on education, compared
to the required minimum of 4 percent.
● The gap between Pakistan's educational policy, data, and budgetary
allocations is one of the key causes for the country's poor progress in
improving education.
Quality Education
● The growth in the amount of cash available for education at the

federal level and in all federating units has been a favorable trend.
● Dard Kush Improving Afghan Refugees' and Pakistani Host
Communities' Livelihoods
● Provide market-oriented training and employment possibilities for
600 Afghan refugee and host community families in Lahore,
resulting in an economic uplift.
Quality Education
● The Children's Van for Value Education on the Move is a compact library
van will provide access to a wide range of different reading material to over
1000 children and adults from mixed religion slums in Lahore, improving
literacy rates and bringing social change to Pakistan
● Citizenship on an equal footing that contributes to Pakistan's improvement
and preservation of equal citizenship and constitutional literacy.
Suggestions
● Build more schools
● Persuade people to teach their childerns
● Give funding's to schools
● Raise standards for teachers
Gender Equality
● Pakistan ranked 151 out of 153 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index
Report 2020 index.
● Development Goal 5 (gender equality) in Pakistan’s 2030 Agenda of
Sustainable Development and passing the bill of “Protection against
Harassment of Women at Workplace Act”
● There is still much more to be done to improve the realities for women and
girls across the country.
● UNFPA believes that gender equality will be achieved only when women and
men enjoy the same opportunities, rights and obligations
Gender Equality
● Pakistan has adopted international commitments to gender equality– the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Beijing Platform for Action.
● Within these overarching categories, policies can address: recruitment and
advancement processes to ensure quality between women and men.
● Equal pay for equal work; recognition and rewards that are unbiased and
based on contribution and performance.
● Support to Training and Employment Program for Women (STEP) to ensure
sustainable employment and income generation for women.
Suggestions
● Provide equal Opportunity Promote education, training and professional

development for women.
● Gender equality is when people of all genders have equal rights, responsibilities
and opportunities.
Clean Water & Sanitation
● 1 in 4 health care facilities lacks basic water services.
● 3 in 10 people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 6 in
10 people lack access to safely managed sanitation facilities.
● At least 892 million people continue to practice open defecation.
● Women and girls are responsible for water collection in 80 per cent of
households without access to water on premises.
● Between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an
improved drinking water source has increased from 76 per cent to 90 per cent
● Water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population and is
projected to rise. Over 1.7 billion people are currently living in river basins
where water use exceeds recharge.
● 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or
latrines.
● More than 80 per cent of wastewater resulting from human activities is
discharged into rivers or sea without any pollution removal.
● Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-
related diarrheal diseases
● Approximately 70 per cent of all water abstracted from rivers, lakes and
aquifers is used for irrigation.
● Floods and other water-related disasters account for 70 per cent of all deaths
related to natural disasters
Suggestions
● Invest more in water and sanitation for Pakistanis
● Incentives for private companies to invest in this sector.
● Treat water resources better
● Promote rain water harvesting
Thank you
Muhammad Junaid Khan

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● Education should be provided to every Individual.

● Create good-paying jobs that meet family needs.

● Raise the minimum wage to ensure economic stability for all.

● Tax reduction for the poor and low income class.

● The growth in the amount of cash available for education at the

● Provide equal Opportunity Promote education, training and professional

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