Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are actionable targets set in 2015 by the United Nations to achieve the Agenda 2030, arguably the most ambitious and comprehensive global development programme ever, integrated at the country and regional levels.

Participation is essential to the fulfilment of these goals, and it is per se an objective to be mainstreamed in policy-making. SDG target 16.7 aims to “Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels”. The 2030 Agenda also highlights, in its paragraph 48, the importance indicators have for decision-making.

Overall, INSPIRED is a suitable tool to drive reforms targeting sustainable development, because it includes everybody, including the least heard, thereby contributes to the durability and relevant framing of policies.

In Paraguay, CDIA and EPD facilitate political dialogue in policy-making addressing social rights of children with an emphasis on gender inclusion and sustainable development within the project “Our rights in the 2030 Agenda: Intercultural citizen participation for gender equality in children and adolescents",

This has shown the effectivity of the method in building up policies with complex outcomes, whose participatory components helped stakeholders drawing the lines of solutions that achieve SDGs 5 (Gender Equality) needs to be addressed considering that it is intrinsically intertwined with SDG 1 (poverty eradication) and with SDG 10 (inequality reduction); only by working in a comprehensive way in these three areas will it be possible to have results in SDG 5. Although it is not one of the priorities of this project, CDIA has been working intensively on SDG 16, and in its goal 16.2 that fights against violence on children.

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