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Do\u002Dable Dozen: Kicking off a weekly series on how to actually meet Sustainable Development Goals
seeing their fifth birthday who otherwise would have died. There was a dramatic reduction in hunger: it went from afflicting 16 per cent of the world’s population in 1990 to around eight per cent in 2015.
That meant 300 million people avoided the lifelong effects of hunger and malnutrition. The fight against poverty was also accelerated, with the total number of poor people cut by an astounding 1.2 billion.Article content For the poor and vulnerable, the world simply became a much better place thanks to the MDGs. Some targets, like clean drinking water and sanitation, didn’t accelerate, but all saw dramatic improvements, making life less hard, with less hunger, poverty and dirty water, with more schooling and less death from tuberculosis, malaria and HIV, and with many fewer mothers and children dying. But in 2015, when the world replaced the MDGs, things went wrong. World leaders could again have chosen to focus on a few, crucial targets. They could even have kept the same targets, which had proved so important to the world’s most vulnerable people. They could have focused on pinpointing where needs are deepest and opportunities greatest.Article content Instead, the United Nations and world leaders came up with a hodge-podge, absurdly long list of 169 targets for the world to achieve from 2015-2030: the Sustainable Development Goals . The SDGs do promise to do incredibly important things, like eradicating poverty and hunger, getting rid of disease and ending both war and global warming. They also set targets for more peripheral issues likeBut having 169 priorities is the same as having no priorities at all. And the inevitable result is that we are falling behind on important development measures. This year, we are at halftime of the SDGs. Yet, with our current progress, even before the setbacks resulting from COVID, we will likely be on our promises. We could be the generation that fails all or almost all of our promises, and it is a consequence of not prioritizing. So how do we fix things from here?Article content First, we need to decide which targets matter most. For most people, less hunger and better education matter more than well-meaning pledges of
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