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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were established to respond to address the world's main development challenges are due to expire at the end of this year. These goals were adopted and signed by about 147 heads of state and governments following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations that took place during the Rio+20, in September 2000.

Despite numerous global, regional and national commitments to achieve all this goals, not all of them have been delivered as expected .For example the goal on cutting extreme poverty by half , is something that has already been achieved as a group but not accomplished at county by country , region by region level . Some parts of the developing countries in Africa and other parts of the world still suffers from extreme poverty , hunger , diseases ,violence and conflicts , gender inequality , poor governance among others . There has been critics of the MDG's that they were considered targets for poor countries to achieve, with finance from wealthy states.

We need a new and dramatic approach on how to respond to world challenges every country will be expected to work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. From the Rio +20 ,Future we Want report ,World leaders in different working groups have agreed to make a transition from MDGs to SDGs , the SDGs are expected to be Action –Oriented , Concise and Easy to Communicate ,Limited in number , Inspirational ,Global in nature and Universally applicable to all countries while taking into account different national realities ,capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities. SDG is building on ending extreme poverty, addressing and focusing on priority areas for the achieving economic development that is inclusive of environment, social and good governance.

Proposed Sustainable Development Goals:

Goal 1	End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2	End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3	Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4	Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5	Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6	Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7	Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8	Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Goal 9	Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10	Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11	Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12	Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13	Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
Goal 14	Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Goal 15	Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
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

Reference read more to familiarize yourselfs

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgsproposal

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5 Comments

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Eco Generation says :
Thanks for sharing the information about MDG. Though the concept is very famous, realization of the goals must have been tough. Let us try more to achieve SDGs!!
Posted 03-04-2015 17:53

Arushi Madan says :
Thanks for listing down the proposed SDGs .
I appreciate the introduction of SDGs as compared to MDG which were too vast , big ideas with broken promises and also lacked enough emphasis on sustainable development. MDGs also lacked specific dates and measureable aims.
Having said all that , I also feel that MDGs were good starting point to mobilise world leaders to sit together , chalk out global issues and plans.
SDGs seems to be better , improved versions of MDGs.
Posted 01-04-2015 12:33

says :
Thanks Samuel for enhancing my knowledge on SDGs which was limited to MDGs.
Posted 31-03-2015 14:28

Luiz Bispo says :
Thanks for sharing it!!
Posted 31-03-2015 00:29

says :
Dear Samuel, thank you for sharing about detailed goals incorporated in SDGs. Though the millenium development goals couldn't succeed as expected but hopefully these SDG will have larger, visible impact towards sustainable future :)
Posted 30-03-2015 23:55