SDGS

Question 1

What are the SDGs?

Answer 1

They represent a universal set of goals, targets and indicators that the UN member states are expected to use to frame their agendas and political policies over a fifteen-year period

Question 2

What was there before SDGs?

Answer 2

MDGs

Question 3

What were the MDGs?

Answer 3

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Question 4

Why did the MDGs need replacement?

Answer 4

1. they did not integrate economic, social and environmental goals
2. they did not focus attention and action on key challenges, and rallied world behind the common approach to development
3. there was a lot of unfinished work in terms of addressing poverty, hunger, etc.

Question 5

What is new and different about SDGs?

Answer 5

1. universality
2. integration
3. transformation

Question 6

What are the SDGs?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

How is psychology relevant to the SDGs?

Answer 7

1. Goal-setting
2. Working conditions/arrangements
3. Public sector effectiveness and worker wellbeing
4. Private sector productivity and worker wellbeing.
5. Attitudinal Change Strategies at all levels
6. Training and Education (Educational Psy, I-O Psyc
7. Research and Development (all subfields)
8. Health Psy, etc

Question 8

What is the future role of psychology in the accomplishment of SDGs?

Answer 8

1. Utilise the tools and theories from psychology to assist
   ◼ the efficacy of work toward current goals
   ◼ Using human psychology in the workplace
2. Human resource development on a national and global scale by
   ◼ Academics
   ◼ national governments
   ◼ international development actors (e.g.,
   USAID)
3. Continue with research , attitudinal change and theory applications