SDG GOALS

SDGs at the core of the 2030 Agenda are:

No Poverty

Zero Hunger

Good Health and Well-Being

Gender Equality

Clean Water and Sanitation

Affordable and Clean Energy

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Reduced Inequalities

Sustainable Cities and Communi-ties

Responsible Consumption and Production

Climate Action

Life below Water

Life on Land

Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Partnerships for the Goals

1. No Poverty - End poverty in all its forms everywhere

2. Zero Hunger - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote
sustainable agriculture
3. Good Health and Well-Being - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Quality Education - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong
learning opportunities for all
5. Gender Equality - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Clean Water and Sanitation - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all
7. Affordable and Clean Energy - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and clean
energy for all
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth - Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and
sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation
 10. Reduced Inequalities - Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Sustainable Cities and Communi-ties - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable
12. Responsible Consumption and Production - Ensure sustainable consumption and production
patterns
13. Climate Action - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14. Life below Water - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development
15. Life on Land - Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,
sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation
and halt biodiversity loss
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for
sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable
and inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Partnerships for the Goals - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the
global partnership for sustainable development

The periods for att aining these goals have been set from 2015 to 2030. SDGs
are basically formulated by interrelati on with social, economic and
environment which can be described by three Ps-- people, planet and profi t.
It can be undoubtedly menti oned that people are the key element for
achieving SDGs. For achieving SDGs, there is no alternati ve system but a
democrati c government To supplement government eff orts, involvement of
private sectors has also been emphasised in achieving SDGs.

EXISTING CHALLENGES IN ACHIEVING THE SDGS:

● Eff ecti ve coordinati on among ministries/divisions is needed for expediti ng

implementati on of the SDGs acti on plan.

● Resource mobilizati on, parti cularly from external sources, remains a big
challenge.

● The Nati onal Social Security requires substanti al increase in resources and
streamlined eff orts for implementati on.
● Capacity of the Nati onal Stati sti cal Organisati on has to be accelerated to
generate data required for tracking SDG progresses.

● Eradicati on of violence against women, preventi on of child marriage and

addressing gender digital divide.

● LNG (liquefi ed natural gas) imports expose Bangladesh to internati onal

gas trade price which has several consequences. The weighted average of
Bangladesh gas tariff is esti mated to jump from $ 1.7 per gigajoules to at
least $ 3.1 per gigajoules. Building huge infrastructure, including port, rail
transport and coal stocking structures, to handle this massive volume of
coal is a challenge.

● Energy pricing and subsidies present a challenge to the economy.

● Inconsistency between skills demand and supply, high cost of migrati on

etc.

● Highly educated women face high unemployment rates.

● The net FDI fl ow has been low and concentrated on a few sectors.

● Recent infl ux of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar is putti ng pressure on

forests in Teknaf-Cox's Bazar range. Already 6000 acres of forest land have
been allott ed for temporary housing of the refugees.

● LDC (least developed country) graduati on may pose additi onal challenges
in future in terms of losing internati onal trade preferences and support
mechanism.

● Skill issue with potenti al migrant workers requires substanti al att enti on.

Bangladesh condition in SDG:

Bangladesh has integrated global goals and targets into its nati onal fi ve year
plan with an eff ecti ve drive in SDG implementati on by involving all the
ministries of the government, private sector, civil society organisati ons, non-
governmental organisati ons (NGOs), development partners and other
stakeholders, called as the "whole of society approach". Meanwhile, for
monitoring sustainable development targets, Bangladesh has created online
tool namely "SDG Tracker" for its own initi ati ve as the fi rst country. Through
this tool, the Prime Minister is directly supervising all acti ons pertaining to
the implementati on of SDGs. Apart from ensuring transparency and
accountability in the implementati on of development acti viti es, fi eld-level
development progress is being monitored by this tool. Among the 17 targets,
Bangladesh already is in a very good positi on in 8. These are: Poverty, hunger
and nutriti on, educati on, gender equality, water and sanitati on, energy,
climate change, and global partnership.

Out of the 17 SDGs, Bangladesh has made considerable progress on reducing

extreme poverty (Goal-1) measured by $1.90 a day or by national poverty line.

Bangladesh is moving steadfastly towards ensuring access of 100 per cent of

poor household (by 2021) to electricity (Goal-7) well ahead of the target time
in 2025; it reached to 92.2 per cent in 2019 which was only 55.26 per cent in
2010.

Bangladesh has made an upward shift in the average annual growth rate (Goal-
8) to 7.0 per cent plus in the recent years

The country is on the track to achieve the SDG on clean water and sanitation. Currently, 87
percent of the population has access to safe water sources and 61 percent has access to
safe sanitation.

 The progress on reducing extreme poverty measured by $1.90 a day or by

SDG 1 national poverty line (LPL) is on track.

 Progress on reducing stunting which stood at 36.1 per cent in 2014 is virtually on
SDG2 track at the current rate of reduction. Similarly, progress on reducing wasting
which stood at 14.3 per cent is also on track

 The child related indicators, namely, under 5 mortality rate (U5MR) (31 per
SDG3 thousand live births) and neo natal mortality rate (NMR) (17 per thousand live
births) have already surpassed or reached their 2020 milestone targets (U5MR-
34 and NMR-17) ahead of time. Some of the women related targets such as
 number of medically-trained care providers during child birth, proportion of
currently married women who use modern contraceptive method (59.2%) and
adolescent (women aged 15- 19 years) are very close to reaching their targets in
2020

 Gender Parity Index (GPI) exceeded 1 at primary and secondary levels of

SDG 4 education and has remained above 1 for more than a decade

 The proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union
SDG 5 before age 15 years stood at 10.70 per cent and before age 18 years 47 per cent
which registered some decline over time
 About a quarter of women’s daily time is spent on such work. The proportion of
female members in the Parliament has been slowly increasing over time reaching
20.57 per cent in 2017.
 Bangladesh ranks 48 in global ranking of countries with a score of 0.721
indicating significantly better performance in promoting women empowerment
compared to her South Asian neighbours.

 Bangladesh is moving steadfastly towards ensuring access of 100 per cent

SDG 6 households to electricity well ahead of the target time in 2025; it reached 85.3 per
cent in 2017 (91% in 2018 December)
 The country lags behind in other energy indicators

 Bangladesh has made an upward shift in the average annual growth rate to more
SDG 7 than 7 per cent in the recent years
 the average annual growth rate of GDP per employed person has already
reached the 2020 target in FY2017

 About 29 per cent of youth was not in education, not in employment (NEET) in
SDG 8 the base year which increased to about 30 per cent in the following year. While
the proportion of youth male NEET is closer to 10 per cent the proportion of youth
female is closer to 50 per cent in 2016/17. Both rates are higher than their levels
in the preceding year which puts them off-track.

 The road density per 100 square kilometer increased to 14.61 kilo meters in 2017
SDG 9 from 14.41 kilo meters in 2010
 The share of manufacturing value added in GDP has increased significantly
already exceeding the 2020 milestone in FY2017

 According to recent available data (HIES 2016) income inequality has increased
SDG 10 while consumption inequality has remained relatively stable.

 Nearly 44 per cent of the urban population lived in purely temporary structures
SDG 11 and 29 per cent lived in semi-permanent structures.

 An estimated 10 per cent of crop productivity in Bangladesh is lost during

SDG 12 postharvest operations.
 About 5.5 per cent of the total procured food is wasted of which 3 per cent is
wasted during procurement and preparation stage, 1.4 per cent during serving,
and another 1.1 per cent from the plates.
  Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to
SDG 13 disasters per 100,000 population (Indicator 13.1.1) have fallen over the years.
Now it stands at 12,881 with a target of 6500 by 2020 and 1500 by 2030.

 Total protected area now stands at 2.05% of the marine area (Target 14.5). Major
SDG 14 success has been achieved in Hilsa protection with production almost doubling in
last 15 years.

 The forest coverage of the country now stands at 17.5% which is targeted to
SDG 15 increase to 20% by 2020.

 The number of victims of intentional homicide reduced significantly from baseline

SDG 16 values. Appropriate measures undertaken by the government of Bangladesh
contributed significantly to improving human trafficking and youth mental and
physical abuse.

 Achieving SDGs will critically depend on the availability of resources including

SDG 17 external resources. The need for enhanced international cooperation and support
has been emphasized for achieving 41 of the 169 targets of SDGs. International
community will have to provide adequate and timely support to Bangladesh to
help implement a comprehensive and all-encompassing development agenda
like SDGs 2030.