Step One: Identifying Goals. The first of eight stages in the Accountability in Action training kit.

1. STEP ONE
Identify the specific goals and targets you will monitor.
Choose your goals
In step one we will:
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Learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals.
Explore young people’s priorities in YOUR country.

2. • The SDGs replaced the Millennium Development Goals.
• Consulted over 7 million people.
SDGs: WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?

3. Data revolution
The rapid increase of new forms of data; how they are
shared and how they are used.
Transparency
When governments, companies, organisations and individuals
operate in a way that is easy for others to see their actions,
plans, processes, rules and the information they hold.
KEY TERMS

4. September 2010
The UN General Assembly
meeting on the MDGs held to
accelerate progress and consider
what would follow them.
June 2012
SDGs first discussed at Rio+20.
2013
Widespread consultations at
global, national and local levels.
KEY EVENTS

5. Nov-March 2013
High Level Panel meetings: young
people call for a role in monitoring
SDGs reflected in Bali Communique.
March 2014
Report published states post-2015 world
will be powered by data revolution and
more transparent governments.
Promise to ’Leave No-one Behind.’
July 2015
First proposal for the SDGs:
17 goals with 169 targets.
KEY EVENTS

6. Sept 2015
SDGs are adopted by the UN.
March 2016
Indicators for each target
are set (230 in total).
Next fifteen years
Citizens to ensure governments
implement SDGs in their countries.
KEY EVENTS

7. ACTIVITY
Compare MDG2 vs SDG4

8. Governance
How a state or organisation is governed.
KEY TERMS

9. CASE STUDY
Young people demanding better governance

10. Advocacy
An activity by a group or individual that aims to
influence political, economic or social decisions.
KEY TERMS

11. “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development , provide access to
justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.”
Targets include:
• End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms violence and torture of children.
• Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.
• Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.
THIS IS ADVOCACY AT WORK.
GOAL 16. PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

12. “Young people will be the torch-bearers of the next sustainable
development agenda” - Ban Ki-moon, UN General Secretary.
Young people have a right to participate, as stated in:
• The International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights.
• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child .
HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE THE SDGs?

13. Selecting your accountability focus
ACTIVITY
We are going to do this by:
• Looking at what young people want in YOUR country.
• Feeling confident about the 17 SDGs.
• Choosing YOUR focus.

14. • Choose goals that young people in your country have identified as their priorities.
• Choose goals and targets that you are passionate about.
• Choose goals and targets related to a cause you are already working on.
• Make your decisions as a team.
• Reach out to partners and colleagues for advice.
TOP TIPS

15. RECAP
Researched young people’s priorities in YOUR country.
In step one we have:
Chosen your ACCOUNTABILITY FOCUS!

16. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication ‘Accountability in action training’ reflects the views of the author, and the Commission
cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
This project is led by Restless Development and draws together a consortium
of youth-led and youth-focused organisations from around the world.
Together they have a wealth of experience in supporting young people to
play a leading role in governance and accountability.