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1. What is the development challenge that needs to be addressed?

State the problem you are trying to solve and why it is important. Include any relevant data that already exists.

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2. What target group is being affected by this challenge, and how?

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3. Are there any policies or programmes in place to help address this challenge? If not, please explain why?

Is this challenge already being addressed? For example, is there a Government programme that has been put in place to address the challenge? Please explain.

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4. Other Information

Sustainable Development Goals

Select Sustainable Development Goals

No Poverty

Eradicate extreme poverty

Reduce by half those living in poverty

Implement national social protection systems for the poor

Equal rights to resources, technology, land, microfinance

Build resilience of vulnerable to climate disasters

Mobilize resources for poverty programmes and policies

Create policy frameworks to accelerate poverty investments

Zero Hunger

Empower smallholder farmers; connect them to markets

End hunger, especially of poor, vulnerable, infants

End malnutrition, especially in children, women, elders

Ensure sustainable, climate-resilient food systems

Maintain genetic diversity and biocultural knowledge

Increase investment in agricultural research, rural infrastructure

Correct and prevent trade restrictions, distortions

Ensure proper functioning of food commodity markets

Safety nets for food security and nutrition

Good Health and Well-Being

Reduce maternal mortality

End preventable newborn and child deaths

End AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, other communicable diseases

Reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases

Prevent and treat substance abuse

Halve global deaths, injuries from traffic accidents

Ensure sexual and reproductive health-care access

Achieve universal health coverage

Reduce deaths, illnesses from pollution and contamination

Strengthen WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Support research, development of vaccines and medicines

Increase health workforce in developing countries

Strengthen capacity to manage global health risks

Quality Education

Ensure free, quality primary and secondary education

Ensure access to early childhood education, care

Ensure access to technical, vocational, tertiary education

Increase technical, vocational skills of youth, adults

Eliminate gender disparities, ensure equal educational access

Ensure achievement of literacy and numeracy

Ensure education, skills to promote sustainable development

Build, upgrade educational facilities

Expand scholarships for developing countries

Increase supply of qualified teachers

Gender Equality

End discrimination against women and girls

Eliminate violence against women, girls

Eliminate early, forced marriage, female genital mutilation

Value unpaid domestic work through social policies

Ensure women’s participation, equal leadership opportunities

Ensure access to sexual, reproductive health, rights

Ensure women’s equal rights to resources, inheritance

Enhance technology to promote women’s empowerment

Adopt, strengthen gender equality policies and legislation

Clean Water and Sanitation

Achieve access to safe, affordable drinking water

Achieve universal access to adequate sanitation, hygiene

Reduce water pollution, minimizing hazardous chemical releases

Increase water-use efficiency, sustainable water withdrawals

Implement integrated water resources management

Protect, restore water-related ecosystems

Support developing countries on water-related technologies

Strengthen community participation in water, sanitation

Affordable and Clean Energy

Ensure universal access to sustainable, reliable energy

Increase share of global renewable energy

Double global rate energy efficiency improvement

Enhance cooperation for clean energy research, technology

Expand developing country energy infrastructure, upgrade technology

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Sustain economic growth, and 7% in LDCs

Promote diversification, technological upgrading and innovation

Promote job-creation, entrepreneurial policies

Improve resource efficiency, decouple growth and degradation

Achieve employment, decent equitable work for all

Substantially reduce youth unemployment

Eradicate forced labour, slavery, human trafficking

Protect labour rights, promote safe working environments

Devise, implement policies to promote sustainable tourism

Strengthen capacity to expand banking access

Support Aid for Trade for developing countries

Operationalize global youth employment strategy

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Develop quality, reliable, sustainable, resilient infrastructure

Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization

Increase small-scale industrial enterprise access to financial services

Upgrade infrastructure, retrofit industries for sustainability

Enhance scientific research, upgrade technological industrial capabilities

Facilitate sustainable, resilient infrastructure development

Support technology development, research in developing countries

Increase access to information and communications technology

Reduced Inequalities

Achieve, sustain income growth of bottom 40%

Empower, promote the inclusion of all

Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities

Adopt policies to progressively achieve greater equality

Improve regulation, monitoring of global financial markets

Ensure developing country representation in global decision-making

Facilitate orderly, safe, regular, responsible migration

Implement special, differential treatment for developing countries

Encourage ODA to States where need is greatest

Reduce migrant remittance transaction costs to under 3%

Sustainable Cities and Communities

Ensure access to adequate, safe, affordable housing, services

Provide safe, affordable, accessible, sustainable transport systems

Enhance capacity for participatory, sustainable human settlement

Protect, safeguard the world’s cultural, natural heritage

Reduce deaths, decrease losses caused by disasters

Reduce adverse environmental impact of cities

Provide universal access to green, public spaces

Strengthen national and regional development planning

Implement Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Support LDCs in sustainable and resilient buildings

Responsible Consumption and Production

Implement 10-year framework on sustainable consumption, production

Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources

Halve per capita global food waste

Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management

Reduce waste generation through reduction, recycling, reuse

Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices, reporting

Promote sustainable public procurement practices

Ensure global access to sustainable development information

Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism

Remove inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies, market distortions

Climate Action

Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards

Integrate climate change into national policies, planning

Improve learning, capacity on climate change measures

Mobilize $100 billion annually for UNFCCC goal

Build capacity for climate change planning, management

Life below Water

Prevent, reduce marine pollution, including debris, nutrients

Sustainably manage, protect, restore marine, coastal ecosystems

Address impacts of ocean acidification

Regulate harvesting, overfishing, illegal fishing

Conserve at least 10% coastal, marine areas

Prohibit and avoid harmful, perverse fisheries subsidies

Increase economic benefits of marine resources to SIDS

Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity

Provide resource, market access for small-scale fishers

Implement international law as reflected in UNCLOS

Life on Land

Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems

Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation

Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil

Conserve mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity

Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction

Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing

End wildlife poaching, illegal species trafficking

Prevent, mitigate, eradicate invasive alien species

Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use

Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management

Increase local capacity to combat species poaching

Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Significantly reduce all forms of violence, deaths

End child abuse, exploitation, trafficking, violence, exploitation

Promote rule of law; equal justice access

Reduce illicit finance, arms flows; organized crime

Substantially reduce corruption and bribery

Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions

Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making

Strengthen developing country participation in global governance

Provide legal identity for all

Ensure public information access, protect fundamental freedoms

Strengthen national capacity on violence, terrorism, crime

Enforce non-discriminatory laws, policies for sustainable development

Partnerships for the Goals

Strengthen domestic resource mobilization

Developed countries fully implement ODA commitments

Mobilize multiple financial resources for developing countries

Help developing countries attain long-term debt sustainability

Implement investment promotion regimes for LDCs

Enhance cooperation on science, technology, innovation

Promote learning on environmentally sound technologies

Operationalize mechanism on technology, innovation, capacity-building

Build capacity to support national plans

Promote effective multilateral trading system under WTO

Increase developing countries’ exports

Implement duty-free, quota-free market access

Enhance global macroeconomic stability

Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

Respect national policy space, leadership for implementation

Enhance global sustainable development partnerships

Encourage, promote public, private, civil society partnerships

Support increase of high-quality, timely data

Support sustainable development progress measures, statistical capacity

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