Current Affairs for Civil Services

1. SDGs
By: Harveer Singh
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2. Sustainable Development Goals
• Negotiated Over 3 years.
• Ambitious Roadmap.
• It lists 17 goals and 169 Targets.
• UN member states will be expected to use to
frame their agendas and political policies over the
next 15 years.
• In contrast, the UN Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), adopted by countries in 2000 to
reduce extreme poverty by 2015, had a mere
eight goals and 18 targets.
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3. Drawbacks of MDGs
• The eight MDGs –
– reduce poverty and hunger;
– achieve universal education;
– promote gender equality;
– reduce child and maternal deaths;
– combat HIV, malaria and other diseases;
– ensure environmental sustainability;
– develop global partnerships
• These goals made no mention of human rights, nor specifically
addressed economic development. While the MDGs, in theory,
applied to all countries, in reality, they were considered targets for
poor countries to achieve, with finance from wealthy states. Every
country will be expected to work towards achieving the SDGs.
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4. Broad Themes of 17 SDGs
• Human Dignity: Poverty, Hunger, Health and
Quality Education.
• Reduce Inequalities within the countries.
• Inclusiveness: Growth, Access to Energy, Quality
Educaton, Cities and Human Settlement
• Sustainability Living, Consumption and
harmonious relation with nature. (Action on
Climate Change, Forest Conservation, Marine
Sustainablity.
• Global Partnership: Lets all join hands
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5. Important Goals
• Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
• Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower
women and girls.
• Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among
countries.
• Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements
inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
• Goal 17. Strengthen the means of
implementation and revitalize the Global
Partnership for Sustainable Development.
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6. • Today, India is home to more than 30% of the
global estimate of over 1 billion people who
live in extreme poverty.
• A single Indian state—Uttar Pradesh (UP)—
accounts for 8% of the world’s population
living in extreme poverty.(World Bank
President Jim Kim)
• If UP were to succeed, the world will be on its
way to achieving SDG One.
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7. • SDGs can only be achieved with the help of
state and local governments, industry and civil
society.
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8. • If the MDGs were relatively successful, it is
because of the domestic efforts of a single
country— China—that pulled more people out
of poverty than any other.
• Similarly, UN experts opine the overall success
or failure of the SDGs will also be determined
by the results of a single country—India.
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