Advisory request on SDGs and Wellbeing
The Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation has asked the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) to provide an advisory report on public and business engagement in pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with particular attention to the international dimension, on what government can do to encourage and facilitate activities to achieve the SDGs, and on how to strengthen policy coherence in the areas of the SDGs and wellbeing.
In 2015 UN member states unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with the SDGs at its heart. The goals are aimed at promoting global prosperity and a healthy climate for people and the planet.
The SDGs emphatically focus on action, not in developing countries alone, but in all UN member states, including high-income countries. For the Netherlands this means working to achieve the SDGs at home as well as helping to achieve them internationally, especially in developing countries that have fewer resources. We are now roughly at the halfway mark on the road to 2030 and the world is not on track to achieve these goals. Like other countries, the Netherlands will have to intensify its efforts.
Approach and timetable
The advisory report will be drawn up by a drafting group made up of members of the Development Cooperation Committee. The AIV aims to publish the report in the summer of 2024.
Contact
Questions about this advisory process can be directed to the adviser to the Development Cooperation Committee, Jorrit Oppewal.