SDG's Flashcards
What are they?
Developed by the UN to make the world a better place. There are 17 goals with targets to be achieved by 2030.
The rationale
- A new set of goals were needed
- Progress was uneven across regions and countries due to disadvantaged groups
- New global changes need to be considered (e.g. conflict, mass migration)
The objectives
- End extreme poverty
- Fight inequality and discrimination
- Protect the planet and address climate change
Name the SDG’s (with number)
- No poverty
- Zero hunger
- Good health and wellbeing
- Quality education
- Gender equality
- Clean water and sanitation
- Climate action
Three key features of SDG 3
- Provide access to medicines and vaccines for all, support research and development of vaccines and medicines.
- Reduce maternal mortality
- Increase health financing, research and development
- End communicable diseases
- Reduce mortality from NCD and promote mental health and wellbeing
- Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services
- End preventable newborn and child deaths
- Strengthen capacity for early warning
SDG 1 and SDG 3
Social protection measures ensure that regardless of their economic situation, all people will have access to high quality healthcare at no cost, will be able to care for their children and provide food, shelter and education, and in the event of unemployment, illness, pregnancy, disability or old age, will have income security.
SDG 2 and SDG 3
Well-nourished mothers are more likely to give birth to healthier babies and to experience good health and wellbeing during pregnancy and childbirth (maternal mortality, infant mortality and under-five mortality)
SDG 4 and SDG 3
An educated workforce bring greater economic growth. Economic growth provides more resources for governments to invest in healthcare, medicines and social protection measures. This means that people can access the healthcare they require, reducing their morbidity and mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases.
SDG 5 and SDG 3
Providing women with an education means they are more likely to get a job which increases their ability to purchase nutritious foods, lowering their risk of diseases and therefore promoting good health and wellbeing.
SDG 6 and SDG 3
By achieving clean water and sanitation, individuals experience a reduced risk of communicable diseases, such as diarrhea, therefore promoting good health and wellbeing.
SDG 13 and SDG 3
By creating cleaner air, safer water, more food, more effective and fairer health and social protection systems and healthier people - which is good for the planet - promotion of good health and wellbeing will be achieved.
SDG 5 Program
“India’s Barefoot College Solar Engineering Program”
Addressing gender equality
Purpose: provide access to solar powered electricity in remote parts of India. They started training young people and women to become solar engineers.
Partnership: Barefoot College and Village Energy and Environment Committee (VEEC)
The work they do: they establish relationships with the elders (ownership) and give women to opportunity to learn how to be solar engineers (build solar generators as well as maintain them)
- Handle charge controllers and inverters
- Install solar panels and link them to batteries
- Build solar lanterns
+ Lowers air pollution as they replace kerosene and wax candles that were previously used as light.
+ Promotes gender equality by giving women to opportunity to learn.
SDG 6 Program
“We Are Water Foundation in Zabzugu”
Addressing clean water and sanitation
Purpose: provide sustainable access to clean drinking water to reduce prevalence of diseases due to unsafe water.
Partnership: World Vision
The work they do: the careful placing of wells (community participation - ownership), testing water quality, installing hand pumps, establishing a water committee who are trained for maintenance.
+ Reduces the spread of water-borne diseases
+ People (specifically women and children) don’t have to walk as far to get water
