From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

Since 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have successfully mobilized global action around a set of important social priorities, ranging from poverty, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality and environmental degradation. While substantial progress has been made in achieving the MDGs, there is global agreement that the fight to address such social issues must continue beyond 2015. In response, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon issued a report recommending that the world adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide the post-2015 international development agenda.

The SDGs address a much broader set of factors in comparison to the MDGs and take the following into consideration:

  • the interconnectedness of our economies and societies
  • our dependence on a stable and productive environment and
  • the importance of greater co-operation and common frameworks for action to tackle the complex risks we are all facing together

To learn more about the SDGs, and the process of their development, click here.

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Elayne Vlahaki, MPH
Principal Consultant, Catalyst Research Group
Manager, BC HIV/HCV Evaluation Advisory Group, Pacific AIDS Network