Reflections on UN SDGs implementation
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 Global Goals outlined by the UN as a universal call to action to eradicate poverty, safeguard the environment, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. The different goals are based on a principle of interconnectedness with each other where different causality relations might influence the outcome of one over the other. Based on this doctrine UN countries must develop a framework aimed at maximizing potential synergies and disrupting foreseen trade offs in order to achieve the most optimal payoff. To this regard, there is a whole branch of the UNDP specializing in support on SDGs integration in order to tackle upcoming challenges in the most efficient and comprehensive way and provide guidance to different stakeholders on potential approaches, methods, capabilities and spaces to go from to lead systems changes on a daily basis. Globally, the latest available data on the 140 measurable targets shows moderate if not in...