Save the Children welcomes draft global goals as 'seismic shift' for combatting poverty
Save the Children has today strongly welcomed the agreement by member states of Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This historic agenda has been three years in the making and the organisation is calling on Heads of State to adopt the full document at a Special UN Summit in September. The organisation is also calling on member states to use that summit to set out their implementation plans.
Helen Morton, Save the Children's lead on the global goals said: "These global goals, if adopted and then implemented, will represent a seismic shift in how the world tackles poverty. While the Millennium Development Goals were judged on what they achieved for some, the new global goals will be judged on what they achieve for all. That will drive a real focus on the poorest and most marginalised groups."
Save the Children particularly welcomes;
- the strong focus on children in the final agreement, including a clear commitment to end preventable child mortality by 2030
- The transformative commitments to provide universal health coverage, quality education for all and tackle all forms of violence against children
- The commitment to measure progress by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
- the level of buy in and ownership of the poorest countries to the framework
For Save the Children, the commitment to 'leave no-one behind' is the single, most transformative shift of this global agenda. All 193 governments of the world have agreed that they "wish to see the Goals and targets met for all nations and peoples and for all segments of society". This represents a radically new way of viewing and doing development – truly putting the ‘furthest behind first’.
Morton added: “From the beginning of this process, leave no-one behind has been the rallying cry of the agenda. Today’s agreement represents a real promise to the world’s poorest people that will change the lives of millions of children.
“The success of the agenda will be judged not on what is declared in 2015, but on what is delivered by 2030. Save the Children calls on all Heads of State to attend the SDG Summit in September, adopt the agenda in full and set out a clear plan of action for delivering on this historic agreement”.
Save the Children has today strongly welcomed the agreement by member states of Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This historic agenda has been three years in the making and the organisation is calling on Heads of State to adopt the full document at a Special UN Summit in September. The organisation is also calling on member states to use that summit to set out their implementation plans.
Helen Morton, Save the Children's lead on the global goals said: "These global goals, if adopted and then implemented, will represent a seismic shift in how the world tackles poverty. While the Millennium Development Goals were judged on what they achieved for some, the new global goals will be judged on what they achieve for all. That will drive a real focus on the poorest and most marginalised groups."
Save the Children particularly welcomes;
- the strong focus on children in the final agreement, including a clear commitment to end preventable child mortality by 2030
- The transformative commitments to provide universal health coverage, quality education for all and tackle all forms of violence against children
- The commitment to measure progress by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
- the level of buy in and ownership of the poorest countries to the framework
For Save the Children, the commitment to 'leave no-one behind' is the single, most transformative shift of this global agenda. All 193 governments of the world have agreed that they "wish to see the Goals and targets met for all nations and peoples and for all segments of society". This represents a radically new way of viewing and doing development – truly putting the ‘furthest behind first’.
Morton added: “From the beginning of this process, leave no-one behind has been the rallying cry of the agenda. Today’s agreement represents a real promise to the world’s poorest people that will change the lives of millions of children.
“The success of the agenda will be judged not on what is declared in 2015, but on what is delivered by 2030. Save the Children calls on all Heads of State to attend the SDG Summit in September, adopt the agenda in full and set out a clear plan of action for delivering on this historic agreement”.
