It is essential that recent gains are protected as much as possible. While the crisis is imperiling progress towards the SDGs, it also makes their achievement all the more urgent and necessary. The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on all 17 SDGs has shown that what began as a health crisis has quickly become a human and socio-economic crisis. In September 2019, the UN Secretary-General called on all sectors of society to mobilize for a decade of action on three levels: global action to secure greater leadership, more resources and smarter solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals local action embedding the needed transitions in the policies, budgets, institutions and regulatory frameworks of governments, cities and local authorities and people action, including by youth, civil society, the media, the private sector, unions, academia and other stakeholders, to generate an unstoppable movement pushing for the required transformations.
This programming guide prepared by the World Food Programme (WFP). The Decade of Action calls for accelerating sustainable solutions to all the world’s biggest challenges - ranging from poverty and gender to climate change, inequality and closing the finance gap. Eyerusalem Kebede Negussie, Francesco Branca and Maria del Carmen Casanovas (WHO). 2020 needs to usher in a decade of ambitious action to deliver the Goals by 2030. Today, progress is being made in many places, but, overall, action to meet the Goals is not yet advancing at the speed or scale required. Decade of Action to deliver the Global Goals
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