Partnership is a key factor to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The SDGs, known as the Global Goals, build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets that the world committed to achieving by 2015.
The MDGs, adopted in 2000, was aimed at issues that included slashing poverty, hunger, disease, gender inequality, and access to water and sanitation.
The new Global Goals go much further than the MDGs, addressing the root causes of poverty and the universal need for development that works for all people.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030.
As reported by the Department of National Planning and Monitoring, PNG failed to fully achieve the MDGs and plans are now underway towards achieving the SDGs.
The United Nations Development Program resident representative Roy Trivedy said there needs to be corporation and good partnership between the government, private sector, the international and national organisations and the UN system.
Trivedy said the Global Goals can be achieved through good community development with everybody working together through good planning and support.
“This is how we can work together to bring about changes which can help the country to achieve the SDGs in a much more effective way than we did with the MDGs in the past.
“They key in achieving these goals are how you make all these different levels of government and different groups work together,” said Trivedy.
He said that too often what we see is people trying to do things individually and that may work for a little while but doesn’t last.
Trivedy added that when people work together, that brings about and re-enforces some of the positives and it can really bring about change.
UNDP provides support to governments to reflect the new global agenda in national development plans and policies. This work is already underway in many countries including PNG.