Special online course on SDGs 3rd edition
Academic Year 2021-2022
All countries of the world in 2015 negotiated and adopted an ambitious set of 17 goals and 169 targets at the United Nations General Assembly aimed towards development in form of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a set of inter-related and inter-connected goals which is an improvement (both, quantitatively and qualitatively) over the Millennium Development Goals which ran its course from 2000 to 2015. Poverty alleviation, Health, Education, Gender, Infrastructure Development, Peace and Human Rights, Climate Change, Global Partnerships, etc are the areas covered by SDGs.
Apart from these sector specific goals, SDGs in form of goal number 17 has incorporated, unlike the MDGs, Means of Implementation (MoI) which charts out the strategies and enlists operational tools necessary to achieve SDGs by 2030. Each of the preceding 16 goals also have a, b, c targets which constitute MoI as well. This is a major qualitative improvement of SDGs over MDGs. However, it doesn’t mean that everything is in a satisfactory state. Various reports by the United Nations have alluded to the fact that the progress of SDGs have been slow, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has severely dented the advancement of the goals