The SGDs

Question 1

SDG 1

Answer 1

No Poverty

Key Features:
- Eradicating extreme poverty
- Reducing by half the proportion of men, women and children living in poverty
- Implementing social protection systems

Question 2

SDG 2

Answer 2

Zero Hunger

Key Features:
- End hunger and ensure access for all people, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food
- End all forms of malnutrition
- Ensure sustainable food production systems and resilient agriculture practices

Question 3

SDG 4

Answer 3

Quality Education

Key Features:
- Ensure all children complete free education
- Increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills for employment
- Ensure all youth and adults have adequate literacy and numeracy skills
- Increase the number of qualified teachers

Question 4

SDG 5

Answer 4

Gender equality

Key Features:
- End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
- End all forms of violence against women and girls, including human trafficking and sexual exploitation
- Eliminate harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation
- Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health

Question 5

SDG 6

Answer 5

Clean Water and Sanitation

Key Features:
- Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water
- Enable access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all
- Increase the efficient use of water and ensure sustainable access to clean water
- Support the participation of local communities in water and sanitation management

Question 6

SDG 13

Answer 6

Climate Action

Key Features:
- Strengthen the resilience and capacity of all countries to adapt to climate-related hazards and natural disasters
- Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
-Promote ways of raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in low-income countries and small island developing states, including focusing on women, youth and local marginalized communities.

Question 7

Rational for the SDGs (Why were the SDGs created)

Answer 7

Three main reasons for the introduction of the SDGs
1. A new set of goals and targets were needed when the MDGs finished in 2015
2. Progress in all areas was uneven across regions and countries, leaving millions of people behind, especially in the poorest and those disadvantaged due to sex, age, disability, ethnicity or geographical location
3. New global challenges had emerged and needed to be considered, including the impact of increasing conflict and extremism, widespread migration, economic and financial instability and large scale environmental changes.

Question 8

Objectives of the SDGs

Answer 8

• End extreme poverty
• Fight inequality and injustice
• Address climate change

Question 9

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

Answer 9

• 17 sustainable development goals to be achieved by 2030
• Developed by the UN
• The goals tackle global challenges and aim to meet the needs of all people in all countries.

Action in 5 areas:
- People: end poverty and hunger, ensure all human beings can fulfill their potential with dignity and equality and in a healthy environment

• Planet: protect the planet from degradation through sustainable consumption and production, management of natural resources and acting on climate change to support the needs of present and future generations
• Prosperity: ensure all people can enjoy successful and fulfilling lives and that economic, social, and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature
• Peace: Foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies that are free from fear and violence (sustainable development)
• Partnership: implement the SDGs with a global partnership for sustainable development, focused on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, with the participation of all countries, stakeholders and people.