The UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Comprehensive Overview, Study notes of Social Work

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NO POVERTY

• (^) More than 700 million people still live in extreme poverty and are struggling to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, and access to water and sanitation, to name a few.
• (^) Lower middle-income countries, including China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria, are home to about half of the global poor.
• (^) its causes include unemployment, social exclusion, and high vulnerability of certain population to disasters, diseases and other phenomena which prevent them from being productive.
• (^) Governments can help create an enabling environment to generate productive employment and job opportunities for the poor and the marginalized.

GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING

• (^) Ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages is important to building prosperous societies.
• (^) Epidemics like HIV/ AIDS thrive where fear and discrimination limit people’s ability to receive the services they need to live healthy and productive lives.
• (^) You can raise awareness in your community about the importance of good health, Take action through schools, clubs, teams and organizations to promote better health for all

QUALITY EDUCATION

• (^) When people are able to get quality education they can break from the cycle of poverty & therefore helps to reduce inequalities and to reach gender equality.
• (^) Encourage the private sector to invest resources in the development of educational tools and facilities
• (^) Urge NGOs to partner with youth and other groups to foster the importance of education within local communities.
• (^) Ask our governments to place education as a priority in both policy and practice.

CLEAN WATER & SANITATION

• (^) 1.8 billion people globally use a source of drinking water that is fecally contaminated- Some 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines- scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population and is projected to rise.
• (^) more than 800 children die every day from diarrhoeal diseases linked to poor hygiene.
• (^) Civil society organizations should work to keep governments accountable, invest in water research and development, and promote the inclusion of women, youth and indigenous communities in water resources governance & creating awareness to maintain both human and eco system

AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY

• (^) Our everyday lives depend on reliable and affordable energy services to function smoothly and to develop equitably.
• (^) Countries can accelerate the transition to an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy system by investing in renewable energy resources, prioritizing energy efficient practices, and adopting clean energy technologies and infrastructure.
• (^) Over 1.2 billion people—one in five people of the world’s population — do not have access to electricity. The majority are concentrated in about a dozen countries in Africa and Asia.

INDUSTRY, INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE

• (^) Economic growth, social development and climate action are heavily dependent on investments in infrastructure, sustainable industrial development and technological progress.
• (^) In developing countries, barely 30 per cent of agricultural production undergoes industrial processing
• (^) Establish standards and promote regulations that ensure company projects and initiatives are sustainably managed.

REDUCED INEQUALITIES

• (^) Inequalities based on income, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, class, ethnicity, religion and opportunity continue to persist across the world, within and among countries.
• (^) Reducing inequality requires transformative change. Greater efforts are needed to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, and invest more in health, education, social protection and decent jobs especially for young people, migrants and other vulnerable communities.

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION

• (^) There are two main ways to help:
  1. Reducing your waste
  2. Being thoughtful about what you buy and choosing a sustainable option whenever possible.

CLIMATE ACTION

• (^) From a small farmer in the Philippines to a businessman in London, climate change is affecting everyone, especially the poor and vulnerable, as well as marginalized groups like women, children, and the elderly.
• (^) The world must transform its energy, industry, transport, food, agriculture and forestry systems to ensure that we can limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees, maybe even 1.5.
• (^) Many businesses and investors are also committing themselves to lower their emissions through the Climate Action Agenda—a concerted yet informal effort born at the 2014 UN Climate Summit in New York

LIFE ON LAND

• (^) Around 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihood. This includes some 70 million indigenous people
• (^) Well-managed protected areas support healthy ecosystems, which in turn keep people healthy. It is therefore critical to secure the involvement of the local communities in the development and management of these protected areas.

PEACE JUSTICE & STRONG

INSTITUTIONS

• (^) In order to advance the SDGs we need effective and inclusive public institutions that can deliver quality education and healthcare, fair economic policies and inclusive environmental protection.
• (^) Freedom to express views, in private and in public, must be guaranteed.
• (^) Be the change – promote inclusion and respect towards people of different backgrounds, ethnic origins, religions, gender, sexual orientations or different opinions. Together, we can help to improve conditions for a life of dignity for all.