Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Children and the Sustainable Development Goal Targets in East Asia and the Pacific

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A vigorous follow-up and appraisal system for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires a streamlined process of reporting the agreed framework of indicators and statistical data to monitor progress, inform policy and ensure accountability of all stakeholders. The Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) is a testimony to each country’s continued commitment to support and implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

South-East Asia Regional Strategy for Primary Health Care: 2022-2030

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The Strategy is aligned with and advances the commitments made by Ministers of Health at the Seventy-fourth session of the Regional Committee through the Declaration on COVID-19 and measures to build back better essential health services to achieve UHC and the health-related SDGs. It recognizes that while COVID-19 has highlighted critical health system gaps, it has also catalysed or expanded innovations in community engagement, digital technology and reorganizing primary care services. It is intended to be a living document that will be reviewed throughout the implementation period.

World Health Summit: Yearbook 2013

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In its fifth year, the World Health Summit continues to connect present and future leaders of global health, active in academia, politics, the private sector, and civil society. It is this spirit that permeates the WHS Yearbook by providing direction for future advances to improve health worldwide, and by offering information on the issues and initiatives raised at the World Health Summit 2013.

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021

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The pandemic has tested and even reversed progress in expanding women’s rights and opportunities. “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2021” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, highlighting the progress made since 2015 but also the continued alarm over the COVID-19 pandemic, its immediate effect on women’s well-being, and the threat it poses to future generations.

Monitoring Progress on Universal Health Coverage and the Health-related Sustainable Development Goals in the WHO South-East Asia Region: 2021 Update

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The sixth annual report on Monitoring progress towards UHC and the health-related SDGs in the South-East Asia Region provides a comprehensive overview on where we are and what is needed to achieve the UHC and health-related SDGs. The report highlights progress in the areas of reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health, communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases and health systems. This year’s report includes forecasts for progress likely to be achieved towards those health-related SDG indicators where we can model projections to 2030. A section of this report examines health equity and who is being left behind in the Region. The final part of the report provides Member States’ SDG profile, reporting on health and health-related SDGs. The information and analysis in the report can be utilized to sustain and accelerate progress towards Regional Flagship Priorities and the SDG targets.

Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact - InFocus: 2021

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This ‘In Focus: 2021’ summary outlines the strategic direction and progress in strengthening country health information systems, making data available as a global public good, delivering a measurable impact and using data to drive public health policy.

Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2017 Global Monitoring Report

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A number of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 have targets that relate to health. However, one goal – SDG 3 – focuses specifically on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. Target 3.8 of SDG 3 – achieving universal health coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all – is the key to attaining the entire goal as well as the health-related targets of other SDGs.

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021

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As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is abundantly clear that this is a crisis of monumental proportions, with catastrophic effects on people’s lives and livelihoods and on efforts to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Historically, pandemics have served as catalysts for political, economic and social change, and that still holds true today. The year 2021 will be decisive as to whether or not the world can make the transformations needed to deliver on the promise to achieve the SDGs by 2030 – with implications for us all. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 uses the latest available data and estimates to reveal the devastating impacts of the crisis on the SDGs and point out areas that require urgent and coordinated action. The report was prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with more than 50 international agencies.

Briefing: Drug Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals

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This paper sets out the ways in which current drug control efforts are already impacting upon the development sector’s efforts to achieve sustainable development, highlighting specific areas of policy incoherence between drug control and development, as well as recommendations for the way forward, which must be recognised and addressed if we are to fully achieve the new Goals and Targets set out in the Sustainable Development Agenda. The development sector has so far remained largely absent from debates on drug policy reform, but if it is serious about achieving the SDGs it can no longer remain silent.
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