The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are known as the universal set of targets, goals, and

indicators that the United Nations (UN) member states utilize to construct their policies and agendas for
the upcoming years (Hák, Janoušková, & Moldan, 2016). The Philippines has adopted the SGDs to set
up policymaking, environmental implementation, and monitoring the country's conditions. With 230
indicators generally agreed upon by the UN member states, the Philippines incorporated these indicators
and goals in crafting the Philippine Development Plan (PDP). One of the SDGs indicated in the research
regarding the PDP is its policy mainstreaming aligned with the fourth goal of the SDG, which is ensuring
equitable and inclusive quality education particularly, parity indices for all indicators of education to
develop the youth's potential and human capital.

Based on the 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, the Philippines made tremendous efforts in
making education accessible for vulnerable groups such as indigenous people, persons with disabilities,
overseas Filipinos, and out-of-school youth. Numerous legislations were approved concerning the
sustainability and continuity of education in these groups. Furthermore, the Philippine government
continues to emphasize school attendance through complementary programs that grant incentives such
as various government assistance, including Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), which allows
education grants to low-income families with the condition that their children be enrolled in school and
maintain satisfactory attendance every month. In recent years, the Philippines' educational planning has
been a remarkable achievement based on the government actions mentioned above. Its
implementation in minority groups enables the Sustainable Development Goals indicators to efficiently
secure quality education for Filipinos. With that, the country's economic and governance targets can be
accomplished on conditions that the government would persist in observing policies about accessible
education and more legislation addressing the goals.

The Philippines took great measures to combat poverty through promoting programs that focus on
learning and education for detached areas of the country. In the strategic framework of the Philippine
Development Plan, the pillar that strongly emphasizes Filipino Education is the pillar of Pagbabago. This
pillar anticipates the involvement of subsectors or organizations in building the economic progress of
the nation. Strategies such as continuous curricular reforms, strengthening early childhood care, and
carrying out government programs by educational institutions make the PDP a transforming system that
positively affects our nation and the people living in it (Flores, 2019).

References:
Hák, T., Janoušková, S., & Moldan, B. (2016). Sustainable Development Goals: A need for relevant
indicators. Ecological indicators, 60, 565-573.

Flores, L. K. (2019). ON EDUCATION AND EQUALITY AMONG FILIPINOS. OSB), 1.