Widespread poverty, hunger, diseases in the world and lack of quality healthcare, schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation compelled the world and pushed it to adopt Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to mobilise the international community to work together to achieve a set of key social priorities by 2015.
MDGs were followed by adoption of multiple goals and targets seen as a network under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which function as indicators for the international development for the period 2015–2030.
Thus the world through the UN platform created “tools to answer the questions posed by climate change, environmental pressure, poverty and inequality” according to the UN Secretary General, António Guterres.
But having these tools may not be enough to achieve the great agreements of 2015 – the 2030 agenda for SDG and challenges related to climate change. So what is need as Guterres articulated are “action, ambition and political will” and to build the momentum for transformative, inclusive development by 2030, global advocators are needed to inspire cross-cutting mobilization of the global community.
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, has been re-appointed by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, as UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocate along with 16 influential public figures.
The Advocates who represent the universal character of the SDGs are “committed to raising awareness, inspiring greater ambition, and pushing for faster action on the SDGs” to be achieved by 2030. H H has been selected for a second time to be an Advocate, in recognition of her leading role in providing quality education, youth empowerment, and human development through her initiatives at the local and international level
“The United Nations Secretary General has announced 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocates for 2019-2020 - including Her Highness,” H H posted in her facebook account yesterday.
Adding “United Nations Member States agreed to accomplish the SDGs by 2030. To build the momentum for transformative, inclusive development by 2030. H H and her fellow UN SDG Advocates will use their unique platforms and leadership to inspire and mobilise the global community to achieve the SDGs”.
H H is the Chairperson of Education Above All which is a successful multi-sector model for achieving universal access to quality education and sustainably accomplish all other SDGs.
“By joining forces to achieve our goals, we can turn hope into reality – leaving no one behind,” said Co-Chair of the SDG Advocates group, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway. On 24 and 25 September 2019, the first UN summit on the SDGs since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015 will be held at the UN Headquarters for follow up and comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the 17 (SDGs).