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Sustainable Development Goals

This beat covers implementation of Sustainable Development Goals at national, regional, and international level, including trends and good practices.

Secretary-General António Guterres (centre left) briefs reporters on the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025. With him are Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (left) and Li Junhua (centre right), Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and Bjørg Sandkjær, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Sustainable Development Goals

Five years to go: UN sounds alarm on SDG progress as Africa seeks acceleration

Social Protection The new SDG report shows only 35 per cent of targets are on track. More effort needed to unlock progress on the continent.

Africa's youngest generation holds the key to a bold new future.

Sustainable Development Goals

Summit of the Future and a new Poem for Africa

Embracing Digital Transformation to Realize Our Potential

A girl

Sustainable Development Goals

Africa is on the cusp of an innovation revolution

Fintech Says award-winning fintech prodigy, Salton Massally.

Partnership brings the fire for human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainable Development Goals

Partnership brings the fire for human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals

SDG A festival in Eswatini provided the perfect backdrop to encourage audiences to learn about and protect their human rights.

A school of Travally fish in the Solomon Islands

World Oceans Day: Don’t be colour blind, help blue oceans keep the planet green

Africa Sustainable Development Goals

Growing alliance of news and entertainment companies brings focus on socio-economic impact of COVID-19 crisis to its two-billion-strong audience

United Nations SDG Media Compact hits 100-member mark

Sixth African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe

UN's Mohammed to attend Africa's sustainable development forum in Zimbabwe

Africa sustainable development

Zimbabwe ready to host & showcase itself at sustainable development forum; Minister

Africa Zimbabwe

Battling the damaging effects of ‘fast fashion’

A call for sustainability in the fashion world, as effects of climate change continue to bite

UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner, seated, at center in group photo with around 40 people.

UNDP: In Africa, Meeting the Aspirations of Citizens Critical to Achieving Development Goals

The Aboubou pond.

Fish Farming in Northern Niger Boosts Local Economy

Migration and Environment

Locals in South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo take part in a community road recovery project funded by UNDP.

UN chief sets out roadmap to ‘raise ambition’, fund sustainable development

Photo of four people, two seated in foreground, two standing in background.

UNDP - Sahara Group partner to promote sustainable energy, SDGs in Africa

A close up view of the FlipFlopi dhow, a 9-metre traditional sailing boat made from 10 tonnes of discarded plastic. Credits: UN Environment

Boat made of recycled plastic and flip-flops inspires fight for cleaner seas along African coast

Woman carrying vegetables.

Rwanda still committed to CAADP implementation for Agricultural transformation

Salva Dut (left) pumps water from one of the boreholes he has helped drill in South Sudan. Photo: Water for South Sudan

How South Sudan’s ‘lost boy’ brought water to his village

Salva Dut, a former refugee, has helped drill 300 boreholes in his country