UN-NGLS Post-2015 Civil Society Consultation
for the UN Secretary-General, UN General Assembly, and the
Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
June-August 2013
GUIDANCE NOTE
In partnership with the Post-2015 Development Planning Team / Executive Office of the Secretary-General,
the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) is facilitating a consultation in four languages
(Arabic, English, French, and Spanish) to gather critical analysis from civil society on four reports submitted
to the UN Secretary-General:
1)
2)
3)
4)
High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (Post-2015 HLP)
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
UN Global Compact (UNGC)
UN Development Group (UNDG): “The Global Conversation Begins”
The consultation includes an open written component as well as teleconferences with regional civil society
networks based in the global South. Detailed information is available at:
www.worldwewant2015.org/NGLSconsultation.
This guidance note will elaborate on the purpose and focus of the consultation, and provide background
about the institutions that produced the four reports under review. In the Annex to this note, UN-NGLS also
provides a 7-page listing of the proposed post-2015 sustainable development goals and targets from the
Post-2015 HLP, SDSN, and Global Compact reports, to support your analysis.
Purpose and focus of the consultation
The four reports under review in this consultation were all delivered to the Secretary-General and serve as
input to his report to the September 2013 General Assembly Special Event on the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda. This consultation provides the official channel for
civil society to provide analysis of the findings of these reports and to propose alternative approaches.
UN-NGLS will produce a consultation synthesis report that will be delivered to the Secretary-General,
Heads of State and Government attending the General Assembly in September 2013, and the Open
Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG on SDGs). The synthesis report will further
inform a day of dialogue between civil society and Member States on 22 September, ahead of the UN
General Assembly Special Event on MDGs. UN-NGLS will also work to facilitate substantive discussions
between civil society and governments that follow up on critical recommendations from the synthesis in the
lead up to related intergovernmental meetings. In addition, UN-NGLS will promote the synthesis report
throughout the UN system and in all UN-NGLS communication tools and materials.
UN-NGLS encourages you to provide analysis in response to as many of the four reports as possible, so
that the consultation synthesis report may contribute a comprehensive overview of civil society
perspectives. Please consider how the reports converge or diverge, and provide input regarding which
elements should or should not be drawn upon by the UN system and Member States.
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In framing your responses to these reports, we encourage you to provide examples of initiatives, policies,
and mechanisms that support sustainable development, as well as those that do not. Please provide
supporting evidence in order to best inform the intergovernmental process for defining the post-2015
development agenda. For example, please describe:
 initiatives that are helping to overcome, or are perpetuating, the structural barriers to development
within your region;
 examples of policy measures that States are implementing in your region that advance, or undermine,
objectives such as human rights, economic fairness, and climate justice;
 mechanisms that are effective, or counterproductive, for ensuring transparency and accountability;
 mechanisms that are effective, or ineffective, for financing sustainable development.
The synthesis report will focus on concrete proposals from civil society, emphasizing regional perspectives
from the global South. The synthesis report will build upon concerns raised in previous UN-NGLS
consultations, including for example: systemic issues of trade, finance and development; human rights
framework and accountability mechanisms; public-private partnerships; extractive industries and land
grabbing; social, economic, environment / climate, and gender justice; and peace and conflict.
These recommendations and concrete suggestions will be particularly relevant in the context of four
thematic sessions that will be conducted by the OWG on SDGs between November 2013 and February
2014.1 These thematic sessions will address: 2
 sustained and inclusive economic growth, macroeconomic policy questions, infrastructure
development and industrialization (25-27 November 2013);
 energy (25-27 November 2013);
 means of implementation (9-13 December 2013);
 global partnership for achieving sustainable development (9-13 December 2013);
 needs of countries in special situations (9-13 December 2013);
 human rights, the right to development, global governance (9-13 December 2013);
 sustainable cities and human settlements, sustainable transport (6-10 January 2014);
 sustainable consumption and production (6-10 January 2014);
 climate change and disaster risk reduction (6-10 January 2014);
 oceans and seas, forests, biodiversity (3-7 February 2014);
 promoting equality, including social equity, gender equality and women’s empowerment (3-7 February
2014); and
 conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding and the promotion of durable peace, rule of law and
governance (3-7 February 2014).
After this “input phase” of thematic discussions, the Open Working Group will spend March through
September 2014 formulating its report of recommendations for SDGs, to be submitted to the 2014 General
Assembly.
The focus on regional perspectives in this consultation is part of UN-NGLS’s strategy to deepen
engagement with civil society networks at the regional level and increase the substantive contributions of
civil society in the global South to the post-2015 and post-Rio+20 intergovernmental processes. In 2014, the
UN Regional Commissions will conduct meetings on the post-2015 development agenda, and civil society
can serve to stimulate States toward stronger outcomes from these meetings in order to raise the bar for the
multilateral deliberations.
1
In its first four meetings, the OWG addressed: poverty eradication; food security and nutrition; sustainable agriculture;
desertification, land degradation, and drought; water and sanitation; employment and decent work for all, social protection, youth,
education and culture; and health and population dynamics.
2 General Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals: Programme of Work 2013-2014.
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Background on the institutions that produced the four reports
The 27-member High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda was established by the
Secretary-General in July 2012 and tasked with providing bold and practical recommendations “regarding
the vision and shape of a Post-2015 development agenda that will help respond to the global challenges of
the 21st century, building on the MDGs and with a view to ending poverty.” In its Terms of Reference, the
Panel was called upon to consult widely and to propose innovative ways for all stakeholders to engage
continuously in discussions about the shape of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The Panel’s work
concluded with the 30 May 2013 release of its report, “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and
Transform Economies through Sustainable Development.” Individual Panel members will now promote the
report’s recommendations in their personal capacity through various national and international fora.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) was launched by the SecretaryGeneral in August of 2012 to “mobilize scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and
the private sector in support of sustainable development problem-solving at local, national, and global
scales.” The SDSN’s report, “An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development,” outlines ten priority
challenges for sustainable development and presents suggestions for framing a global set of sustainable
development goals. The report has been delivered to the Secretary-General and to the Open Working
Group on Sustainable Development Goals. The SDSN will continue its work through at least 2016: it will
share ongoing analysis by its 12 Thematic Groups; it will promote solutions initiatives for sustainable
development; and it will launch regional and national networks of universities, research institutions, and civil
society to promote practical solutions. For more information, and to apply to join the network, please
visit http://unsdsn.org/membership/become-a-member.
The UN Development Group (UNDG) “unites the 32 UN funds, programmes, agencies, departments, and
offices that play a role in development,” in order to “deliver more coherent, effective and efficient support to
countries seeking to attain internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development
Goals.” The UNDG has been facilitating approximately 90 national consultations on the post-2015
development agenda, conducted with the support of UN Country Teams and the UN Resident Coordinators,
as well as 11 global thematic consultations. For the national consultations, UNDG produced a set of
guidelines to help UN Country Teams “to formulate their own, context-appropriate, consultation processes
to inform the post-2015 development agenda.” Preliminary findings from the first 36 national consultations
are presented in the UNDG report, “The Global Conversation Begins,” which is under review in this UNNGLS consultation. A final report about all of the post-2015 national and thematic consultations facilitated
by UNDG will be released in September 2013.
The UN Global Compact asks businesses to voluntarily enact ten principles in the areas of human rights,
labour, the environment and anti-corruption, and to “catalyze actions in support of broader UN goals,
including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).” The Global Compact LEAD platform, which involves
56 national and multi-national corporations, promotes a Blueprint for Corporate Sustainability Leadership.
Global Compact LEAD “developed a task force to review what themes a new set of global sustainable
development objectives should contain; how they could be shaped as goals and targets; and how business
can best be involved.” The work of this task force informed the Global Compact report, “Corporate
Sustainability and the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda,” which was presented to the
Secretary-General on 17 June 2013. On 19-20 September 2013, the Global Compact Leaders Summit,
chaired by the Secretary-General, will take place in New York. This Leaders Summit “will bring together
chief executives with leaders from civil society, Government and the United Nations to unveil a new global
architecture for corporate sustainability.”
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ANNEX:
Listing of Proposed Goals and Targets in the Post-2015 HLP, SDSN and Global Compact Reports
POST-2015 HIGH-LEVEL PANEL
UNIVERSAL GOALS, NATIONAL TARGETS
1: Candidates for global minimum standards, including ‘zero’ goals.
2: Indicators to be disaggregated.
3: Targets require further technical work to find appropriate indicators.
1. End Poverty
1a. Bring the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day to zero and reduce by x% the share of people living
below their country’s 2015 national poverty line 1, 2
1b. Increase by x% the share of women and men, communities, and businesses with secure rights to land, property,
and other assets 2, 3
1c. Cover x% of people who are poor and vulnerable with social protection systems 2, 3
1d. Build resilience and reduce deaths from natural disasters by x% 2
2.
2a.
2b.
2c.
Empower Girls and Women and Achieve Gender Equality
Prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against girls and women 1, 2, 3
End child marriage 1, 2
Ensure equal right of women to own and inherit property, sign a contract, register a business and open a bank
account 1, 2
2d. Eliminate discrimination against women in political, economic, and public life 1, 2, 3
3. Provide Quality Education and Lifelong Learning
3a. Increase by x% the proportion of children able to access and complete pre-primary education 2
3b. Ensure every child, regardless of circumstance, completes primary education able to read, write and count well
enough to meet minimum learning standards 1, 2
3c. Ensure every child, regardless of circumstance, has access to lower secondary education and increase the
proportion of adolescents who achieve recognised and measurable learning outcomes to x% 1, 2
3d. Increase the number of young and adult women and men with the skills, including technical and vocational,
needed for work by x% 2, 3
4. Ensure Healthy Lives
4a. End preventable infant and under-5 deaths 1, 2
4b. Increase by x% the proportion of children, adolescents, at-risk adults and older people that are fully vaccinated
1, 2
4c. Decrease the maternal mortality ratio to no more than x per 100,000 1, 2
4d. Ensure universal sexual and reproductive health and rights 1, 2
4e. Reduce the burden of disease from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases and priority noncommunicable diseases 2
5.
5a.
5b.
5c.
Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition
End hunger and protect the right of everyone to have access to sufficient, safe, affordable, and nutritious food 1, 2
Reduce stunting by x%, wasting by y%, and anemia by z% for all children under five 1, 2
Increase agricultural productivity by x%, with a focus on sustainably increasing smallholder yields and access to
irrigation 3
5d. Adopt sustainable agricultural, ocean and freshwater fishery practices and rebuild designated fish stocks to
sustainable levels 1
5e. Reduce postharvest loss and food waste by x% 3
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6. Achieve Universal Access to Water and Sanitation
6a. Provide universal access to safe drinking water at home, and in schools, health centres, and refugee camps 1, 2
6b. End open defecation and ensure universal access to sanitation at school and work, and increase access to
sanitation at home by x% 1, 2
6c. Bring freshwater withdrawals in line with supply and increase water efficiency in agriculture by x%, industry by y%
and urban areas by z%
6d. Recycle or treat all municipal and industrial wastewater prior to discharge 1, 3
7.
7a.
7b.
7c.
7d.
Secure Sustainable Energy
Double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
Ensure universal access to modern energy services 1, 2
Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency in buildings, industry, agriculture and transport
Phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption 1,3
8.
8a.
8b.
8c.
Create Jobs, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Equitable Growth
Increase the number of good and decent jobs and livelihoods by x 2
Decrease the number of young people not in education, employment or training by x% 2
Strengthen productive capacity by providing universal access to financial services and infrastructure such as
transportation and ICT 1, 2, 3
8d. Increase new start-ups by x and value added from new products by y through creating an enabling business
environment and boosting entrepreneurship 2, 3
9.
9a.
9b.
9c.
9d.
9e.
Manage Natural Resource Assets Sustainably
Publish and use economic, social and environmental accounts in all governments and major companies 1
Increase consideration of sustainability in x% of government procurements 3
Safeguard ecosystems, species and genetic diversity
Reduce deforestation by x% and increase reforestation by y%
Improve soil quality, reduce soil erosion by x tonnes and combat desertification
10. Ensure Good Governance and Effective Institutions
10a. Provide free and universal legal identity, such as birth registrations 1,2
10b. Ensure people enjoy freedom of speech, association, peaceful protest and access to independent media and
information 1, 3
10c. Increase public participation in political processes and civic engagement at all levels 2,3
10d. Guarantee the public’s right to information and access to government data 1
10e. Reduce bribery and corruption and ensure officials can be held accountable 3
11. Ensure Stable and Peaceful Societies
11a. Reduce violent deaths per 100,000 by x and eliminate all forms of violence against children 1, 2, 3
11b. Ensure justice institutions are accessible, independent, well-resourced and respect due-process rights 1, 2,3
11c. Stem the external stressors that lead to conflict, including those related to organised crime 3
11d. Enhance the capacity, professionalism and accountability of the security forces, police and judiciary 3
12. Create a Global Enabling Environment and Catalyse Long-Term Finance
12a. Support an open, fair and development-friendly trading system, substantially reducing trade-distorting measures,
including agricultural subsidies, while improving market access of developing country products 3
12b. Implement reforms to ensure stability of the global financial system and encourage stable, long-term private
foreign investment 3
12c. Hold the increase in global average temperature below 2⁰ C above pre-industrial levels, in line with international
agreements
12d. Developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7% of gross national
product (GNP) as official development assistance to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20% of GNP of
developed countries to least developed countries; other countries should move toward voluntary targets for
complementary financial assistance
12e Reduce illicit flows and tax evasion and increase stolen-asset recovery by $x 3
12f. Promote collaboration on and access to science, technology, innovation, and development data 3
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS NETWORK (SDSN)
Proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Targets
Goals and Targets are for 2030 unless otherwise noted. Targets marked with (*) need to be specified at country or sub
national level. Each target will require one or more indicators to be developed at a later stage.
PREAMBLE1
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and
aim to finish the job of ending extreme poverty in all its forms. The SDGs reaffirm the need to achieve sustainable
development by promoting economic development, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and good
governance including peace and security. These goals reaffirm human rights and underscore the right to development
as central objectives. They are universal and apply to all countries, national and local governments, businesses, and
civil society. Sustainable development will require that the goals be pursued in combination, rather than individually or
one at a time.
GOAL 1: END EXTREME POVERTY INCLUDING HUNGER 2
End extreme poverty in all its forms (MDGs 1-7), including hunger, child stunting, malnutrition, and food insecurity.
Support highly vulnerable countries.
Target 1a.
Target 1b.
Target 1c.
End absolute income poverty ($1.25 or lessperday) and hunger, including achieving food security and
appropriate nutrition, and ending child stunting (MDG 1).
[Other suitably revised targets of MDGs 2-7 included here or below.]
Provide enhanced support for highly vulnerable states and Least Developed Countries, to address the
structural challenges facing those countries, including violence and conflict.*
GOAL 2: ACHIEVE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
All countries have a right to development that respects planetary boundaries, ensures sustainable production and
consumption patterns, and helps to stabilize the global population by mid-century.
Target 2a.
Target 2b.
Target 2c.
Each country reaches at least the next income level as defined by the World Bank.3
Countries report on their contribution to planetary boundaries 4 and incorporate them, together with
other environmental and social indicators, into expanded GDP measures and national accounts.*
Rapid voluntary reduction of fertility through the realization of sexual and reproductive health rights
in countries with total fertility rates above [3] children per woman and a continuation of voluntary
fertility reductions in countries where total fertility rates are above replacement level.*
GOAL 3: ENSURE EFFECTIVE LEARNING FOR ALL CHILDREN AND YOUTH FOR LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD
All girls and boys complete affordable and high quality early childhood development programs, and primary and
secondary education to prepare them for the challenges of modern life and decent livelihoods. All youth and adults
have access to continuous lifelong learning to acquire functional literacy, numeracy, and skills to earn a living through
decent employment or self-employment.
Target 3a.
Target 3b.
Target 3c.
All girls and boys have equal access to quality early childhood development (ECD) programs.
All girls and boys receive quality primary and secondary education that focuses on learning outcomes
and on reducing the dropout rate to zero.
Youth unemployment rate is below [10] percent.
1
Preamble based on the Rio+20 outcome document.
The term hunger embraces various things, including child stunting, food insecurity, and malnutrition. Appropriate indicators will
need to be chosen to reflect the full spectrum of what constitutes hunger.
3 E.g. Low-Income Countries become at least Lower-Middle-Income Countries.
4 Planetary boundaries define the safe operating space for humanity in the Earth system. They include greenhouse gas emissions,
nitrogen and phosphorus loading, ozone depletion, chemical pollution, freshwater use, ocean acidification, land use change, aerosol
loading, and loss of biodiversity.
2
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GOAL 4: ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY, SOCIAL INCLUSION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL
Ensure gender equality, human rights, the rule of law, and universal access to public services. Reduce relative poverty
and other inequalities that cause social exclusion. Prevent and eliminate violence and exploitation, especially for
women and children.
Target 4a.
Target 4b.
Target 4c.
Monitor and end discrimination and inequalities in public service delivery, the rule of law, access to
justice, and participation in political and economic life on the basis of gender, ethnicity, religion,
disability, national origin, and social or other status.
Reduce by half the proportion of households with incomes less than half of the national median
income (relative poverty).
Prevent and eliminate violence against individuals, especially women and children.*
GOAL 5: ACHIEVE HEALTH AND WELLBEING AT ALL AGES
Achieve universal health coverage at every stage of life, with particular emphasis on primary health services, including
reproductive health, to ensure that all people receive quality health services without suffering financial hardship. All
countries promote policies to help individuals make healthy and sustainable decisions regarding diet, physical activity,
and other individual or social dimensions of health.
Target 5a.
Target 5b.
Target 5c.
Ensure universal access to primary healthcare that includes sexual and reproductive healthcare,
family planning, routine immunizations, and the prevention and treatment of communicable and noncommunicable diseases.5
End preventable deaths by reducing child mortality to [20] or fewer deaths per 1000 births, maternal
mortality to [40] or fewer deaths per 100,000 live births, and mortality under 70 years of age from noncommunicable diseases by at least 30 percent compared with the level in 2015. 6
Promote healthy diets and physical activity, discourage unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking and
excessive alcohol intake, and track subjective wellbeing and social capital.*
GOAL 6: IMPROVE AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS AND RAISE RURAL PROSPERITY
Improve farming practices, rural infrastructure, and access to resources for food production to increase the productivity
of agriculture, livestock, and fisheries, raise smallholder incomes, reduce environmental impacts, promote rural
prosperity, and ensure resilience to climate change.
Target 6a.
Target 6b.
Target 6c.
Ensure sustainable food production systems with high yields and high efficiency of water, soil
nutrients, and energy, supporting nutritious diets with low food losses and waste.*
Halt forest and wetland conversion to agriculture, protect soil resources, and ensure that farming
systems are resilient to climate change and disasters.*
Ensure universal access in rural areas to basic resources and infrastructure services (land, water,
sanitation, modern energy, transport, mobile and broadband communication, agricultural inputs, and
advisory services).
GOAL 7: EMPOWER INCLUSIVE, PRODUCTIVE, AND RESILIENT CITIES
Make all cities socially inclusive, economically productive, environmentally sustainable, secure, and resilient to climate
change and other risks. Develop participatory, accountable, and effective city governance to support rapid and
equitable urban transformation.
Target 7a.
Target 7b.
Target 7c.
End extreme urban poverty, expand employment and productivity, and raise living standards,
especially in slums.*
Ensure universal access to a secure and affordable built environment and basic urban services
including housing; water, sanitation and waste management; low--‐carbon energy and transport; and
mobile and broadband communication.
Ensure safe air and water quality for all, and integrate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,
efficient land and resource use, and climate and disaster resilience into investments and standards.*
5
We recommend that countries retain suitably updated MDG indicators for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria.
Countries that have achieved the mortality targets should set more ambitious aggregate targets that are commensurate with their
development and ensure that the minimum quantitative targets are achieved for every sub-population.
6
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GOAL 8: CURB HUMAN INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENSURE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Curb greenhouse gas emissions from energy, industry, agriculture, the built environment, and land-use change to
ensure a peak of global CO2 emissions by 2020 and to head off the rapidly growing dangers of climate change.7
Promote sustainable energy for all.
Target 8a.
Target 8b.
Target 8c.
Decarbonize the energy system, ensure clean energy for all, and improve energy efficiency, with
targets for 2020, 2030, and 2050.*
Reduce non-energy-related emissions of greenhouse gases through improved practices in agriculture,
forestry, waste management, and industry.*
Adopt incentives, including pricing greenhouse gas emissions, to curb climate change and promote
technology transfer to developing countries.*
GOAL 9: SECURE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND BIODIVERSITY, AND ENSURE GOOD MANAGEMENT OF
WATER AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES
Biodiversity, marine and terrestrial ecosystems of local, regional, and global significance are inventoried, managed,
and monitored to ensure the continuation of resilient and adaptive life support systems and to support sustainable
development.8 Water and other natural resources are managed sustainably and transparently to support inclusive
economic and human development.
Target 9a.
Target 9b.
Target 9c.
Ensure resilient and productive ecosystems by adopting policies and legislation that address drivers of
ecosystem degradation, and requiring individuals, businesses and governments to pay the social cost
of pollution and use of environmental services.*
Participate in and support regional and global arrangements to inventory, monitor, and protect biomes
and environmental commons of regional and global significance and curb trans--‐boundary
environmental harms, with robust systems in place no later than 2020.
All governments and businesses commit to the sustainable, integrated, and transparent management
of water, agricultural land, forests, fisheries, mining, and hydrocarbon resources to support inclusive
economic development and the achievement of all SDGs.*
GOAL 10: TRANSFORM GOVERNANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The public sector, business, and other stakeholders commit to good governance, including transparency,
accountability, access to information, participation, an end to tax and secrecy havens, and efforts to stamp out
corruption. The international rules governing international finance, trade, corporate reporting, technology, and
intellectual property are made consistent with achieving the SDGs. The financing of poverty reduction and global public
goods including efforts to head off climate change are strengthened and based on a graduated set of global rights and
responsibilities.
Target 10a.
Target 10b.
Target 10c.
Governments (national and local) and business commit to the SDGs, transparent monitoring, and
annual reports - including independent evaluation of integrated reporting for all major companies
starting no later than 2020.*
Adequate domestic and international public finance for ending extreme poverty, providing global public
goods, capacity building, and transferring technologies, including 0.7 percent of GNI in ODA for all
high-income countries, and an additional $100 billion per year in official climate financing by 2020.
Rules for international trade, finance, taxation, business accounting, and intellectual property are
reformed to be consistent with and support achieving the SDGs.
7
The Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2007) has defined this level as global average temperatures that are 2°C above the
pre-industrial level. Recent scientific evidence suggests the need to reduce the long-term temperature increase to 1.5°C or less.
The global emission reduction target should be regularly updated in view of the growing body of scientific evidence.
8 In line with the Aichi Biodiversity targets to be achieved by 2020.
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GLOBAL COMPACT
A Design for Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 1: End poverty and increase prosperity via inclusive economic growth, targets include:
· Eliminate extreme poverty ($1.25/day per capita in 2005 real US dollars).
· Create jobs through decent work sufficient to keep unemployment below 5 per cent, including for women as a group,
and below 10 per cent for youth.
· Eliminate child labour.
· Ensure full access to private finance, including basic savings, loans and growth capital products, on fair terms
including for women and marginalized groups.
· Reduce by 30 per cent the Gini co-efficient rating in each country.
Goal 2: Quality education for all, targets include:
· Every child completes primary education with basic literacy and numeracy, in schools with grade divisions, books,
light, meals and sanitation.
· All secondary schools to facilitate computing skills, and a 50 per cent availability of digital facilities among primary
schools without them.
· Increase the percentage of young adults with the skills needed for work.
· Achieve parity in enrollment and educational opportunities at primary, secondary and tertiary levels for girls and
women.
· Curricula at primary level and at all levels above to include sustainable development concepts, with special emphasis
on business schools.
Goal 3: Achieve women and girls’ empowerment, targets include:
· Increase the proportion of leadership positions held by women in public and private sectors to 40 per cent or better.
· Universally recognized and enforced equal pay for equal work.
· Full and equal access of women to ownership, property rights and land titles.
· Reduce rates of violent acts committed against women and girls by at least 50 per cent.
Goal 4: Universal health coverage, targets include:
· Affordable access to quality (meets patient needs) treatment and care for all, or to 80 per cent where such access
was less than half in 2010.
· Continue to reduce the reach of TB, malaria and HIV/AIDS, and contain the spread of new drug resistant strains.
· Halt the rise in non-communicable diseases.
· Universal reproductive health services including access to birth control and to a qualified attendant at birth.
· Cut maternal mortality rate by at least ¾.
· Reduce the under-five mortality rate by at least ⅔.
Goal 5: Good nutrition for all through sustainable food and agricultural systems, targets include:
· Eradicate calorie-deficient hunger and halt increase of rates of obesity and of malnutrition.
· Eliminate stunting of children under two years of age through appropriate micro-nutrients.
· Double the productivity of LDC agriculture.
· Stop and turn back annual increases in greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation resulting from farming and
livestock production by 2020.
· Bring down the share of overexploited ocean fish stocks by 20 per cent.
· Reduce amount of food lost through poor storage and waste by ⅓.
Goal 6: Water and sanitation for all, targets include:
· Universal access to affordable fresh water.
· Universal access to basic sanitation facilities by 2020 and improved sanitation facilities by 2030.
· Fresh water use brought in line with supply.
· Ensure establishment and full implementation of national water effluent standards.
Goal 7: Sustainable energy for all, targets include:
· Universal access to modern energy services.
· Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency in production, distribution and consumption.
· Double the share of renewable sources in the energy mix.
· Reduce by at least 50 per cent the particulate concentration in urban air, not to exclude achievement of more
stringent regional targets.
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Goal 8: Build peaceful and stable societies, targets include:
· Improve access for diverse ethnic, religious and social groups to justice, services and economic opportunity.
· Improve mediation, dispute resolution and dialogue mechanisms to prevent and resolve conflict and to build peace
· Reduce incidence of violent deaths per 100,000 by at least 20 per cent.
· Prevent, combat and reduce the illicit trade in small arms, light weapons and ammunition.
· Reduce the reach and extent of organized crime, especially through the provisions of the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime.
Goal 9: Modernize infrastructure and technology, targets include:
· Deploy investment sufficient to meet requirements for “green” transport, energy and water systems in the developing
world, and for upgrading or replacing old and “brown” infrastructure in the developed world.
· Universal and affordable access to the Internet and computing technology.
· Effective use of e-governance at national and state/provincial level in all countries, to increase managerial capacity
as well as transparency.
· Double the share of the population with easy and affordable access to public transportation systems.
· Step up R&D in both public and private sectors.
· Reduce carbon emissions from the construction and operation of buildings.
Goal 10: Good governance and realization of human rights, targets include:
· Raise awareness and implementation of all UN human rights conventions and instruments among all people and at
all levels of governance.
· Achieve competitive and transparent procurement processes through public advertising of all government
procurement cases.
· Develop further an open, rule-based, nondiscriminatory international trading and financial system.
· Establish a climate supportive of business and investment at home and from overseas, including incentives in favour
of sustainability.
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