Statement from MG NGOs for Leaders dialogue 6 of the SDG Summit:

“the 2020 to 2030 Vision”

Key messages
The SDGs are off-track. There is a planetary emergency of environmental degradation and
climate change that threatens to undermine the development progress of the last decades.
Member states must step up on solutions that involve marginalised communities and multiple
stakeholders, including the private sector.
All governments and stakeholders need to increase investment and accelerate their actions to
2030 to bring the SDGs back on track, including those targets that end in 2020 and need to agree
on a clear process to ensure continuation of ambition of the environmental dimension
and its SDG targets with an end date of 2020.
Contents
1 - The nature and climate crisis is a crisis for humanity
2 – We must address the drivers/root causes of this crisis
3 – Collaborative action from all stakeholders is key
4 - Accelerate action through investments in transformation
5 - SDG targets – process and acceleration

1 - The nature and climate crisis is a planetary emergency for

humanity
We are facing a planetary emergency on a scale never experienced before with catastrophic consequences
for humanity. Science tells us we are on a trajectory for 3°C climate change with disastrous consequences
and that we have degraded over 60% of the natural ecosystems that we depend on for some of our basic
needs such as food, water and energy; over 1 million of the planet’s 8 million species are at risk of
extinction.
Two billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress challenging the progress made in the
WASH agenda; 90% of urban residents breathe polluted air; due to soil degradation the global amount of
arable and productive land per person in 2050 will be only a quarter of the level back in 1960 which will
have serious consequences for food security; nearly 800 million people use open and poorly ventilated
solid biomass fires for cooking, exposing women and children to dangerous indoor air pollution.
The planet we call our home is so seriously under threat that the changes experienced challenge our future
existence as we know it. Emergency Preparedness for Natural Hazards enables families and communities
to respond to the emergency situation and recover from it more easily and more quickly than would
otherwise be possible.

2 – We must address the drivers/root causes of this crisis:

Governments must acknowledge and aggressively tackle the drivers and root causes of the climate and
nature crisis in order to prevent catastrophic global heating and begin to restore ecosystems we depend
on.
The major drivers that need to be transformed include energy production, agriculture, transport,
infrastructure and the finance system underpinning these. These drivers include intensified agricultural
production systems and negative food consumption patterns.
Governments must phase out harmful fossil fuels subsidies and re-direct these to renewable energy
systems. Similarly subsidies for industrial animal agricultural and monoculture crop production must be
redirected to support the upscaling of sustainable consumption patterns and production practices such as
a reduction in animal-sourced food products in diets. [Shifting society toward more sustainable
consumption patterns can be done through a change of national guidelines, public procurement schemes,
food purchasing programs, public awareness campaigns and financial incentives/disincentives. Too
much?]
Weak governance structures, corruption and misappropriation of resources significantly undermine
national development progress. Strengthening governance in key institutions is essential to address the
systemic causes of unsustainable development and lack of progress on SDGs. Participatory democracy is
a tool for climate change; All stakeholders should encourage synergies between local leaders, communities
and policy makers. Local leaders are the peoples’ climate movement: you can’t change the past but you
can change the future

3 – Collaborative action from all stakeholders is key

National development progresses more effectively when all relevant stakeholders are involved in decision-
making and planning processes and implementation mechanisms. It is especially important to involve
communities at regional and national levels who are most affected by climate change and loss of natural
resources. They can offer local knowledge and share good practices that are low in cost, scalable, inclusive,
regionally relevant and effective. We can only begin to meet the SDGs’ ambitious commitments if we
listen to the voices of those who are left behind and we involve people in solutions to their own
development. Accepting citizen generated data from communities and volunteers, which can inform and
support policy making.
Governments should not overlook the extraordinary resource available from people willing to participate
in development actions. This year, more than a billion people around the world will volunteer, giving
freely of their time, talent and expertise to help individuals and organisations. These volunteers, whose
efforts are often not recognised or acknowledged, are making a critical contribution to the
implementation and monitoring of the SDGs, helping to ensure that no one is left behind. Volunteers are
helping to extend the reach of a range of SDG-related services to poor and marginalised people.
Volunteers can get to places that others cannot.
Local stakeholders and civil society organisations, represented through the NGO Major Group, are at the
heart of SDG implementation and ideally positioned to assess progress on SDGs. According to the
principle of leaving no one behind, their participation should be integrated into the official reporting
process. Indeed, most of the SDGs requires better accountability as well as stronger public scrutiny in
order to be fully implemented and later, to reach the 2030 Agenda objectives.

4 - Accelerate action through investments in transformation

Member states and all stakeholder groups need to invest and accelerate and scale up efforts around four
levers of change on governance, the economy and financen, individual and collective action and science
and technology as well as critical entry points. Civil society plays an important role to support policy and
decision making, implement efforts on the ground leaving no-one behind and ensuring that the rights of
the people are being respected. We stand ready to support member states in accelerating inclusive actions
in these levers and entry points including Human well-being and capabilities; Sustainable and just
economies; Food systems and nutrition patterns; Energy decarbonization and universal access; 2.9 Entry
point 5 – Urban and peri-urban development; Global environmental commons; Shared responsibility for
transformation - all essential for addressing the current planetary emergency.
Resource mobilization: Member States must strengthen and renew action on domestic resource
mobilisation (DRM), with support for low-income countries to broaden tax bases and tackle corruption
and illicit financial flows.
Governments must examine the implementation of new taxes on carbon and financial transactions and a
rapid phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies as new sources of funding that can play a key role in meeting
SDG financing gaps.
High-income country governments must adopt a new urgency in meeting Official Development Assistance
(ODA) and climate finance targets as part of their international development and climate change
responsibilities.
Strengthening social capital: Worldwide there are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10
and 24 – the largest-ever population of young people. More than 20 per cent are not active in education,
training, or employment. To address this, IMPACT2030 is collaborating with UNICEF and Generation
Unlimited to mobilize companies around the world and develop a unified strategy that will combine
capabilities, resources, and innovative approaches to activate employee volunteers to teach critical
foundational, digital, job, and entrepreneurial skills and prepare youth for the future. One such company,
Tata Consultancy Services, has created an IT training program where nearly 3,000 volunteers in 59 cities
across North America have contributed 200,000 hours to train and educate 17,000 students and prepare
them for work in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math focused careers.12 Skills for Life is a
volunteer program led by United Way Brazil that brings professionals from partner companies and
vulnerable youth together to facilitate the development of soft skills. Over the last 10 years, United Way
Brazil has directly impacted more than 1,300 young people, involving a similar number of mentors from
partner companies.
Responding to drivers: Investments must be made towards ecosystem and land restoration and
supporting practical alternatives to unsustainable agriculture production such as agroecology, traditional
agricultural practices, crop diversification, animal-welfare friendly systems and community-based
farming solutions that work to protect biodiversity rather than destroy it. (Aligned with GSDR Entry Point
3 - Food and Nutrition) - Investments must be made in educating consumers about sustainable, nutritious
and healthy food consumption patterns that are low in animal-sourced products and high in plant-based
alternatives. (Aligned with GSDR Entry Point 3 - Food and Nutrition) - Investments must be made in
supporting the research, development and promotion of healthy, environmentally friendly systems and
products, including meat and dairy alternatives. (Aligned with GSDR Entry Point 3 - Food and Nutrition)
Transforming governance: Investments conducive to the transparency and accountability of
institutions improve good governance. Accountability through public access to information (ATI) counters
corruption and ensures development efforts are maximized. In essence, ATI is a public policy measure,
and can readily be achieved by the appropriate allocation of resources and sufficient political will. In that
sense, SDG 16.10 (“Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance
with national legislation and international agreements”) can be considered as one of the “easier” targets to
achieve.

5 - SDG targets – process and acceleration

There are 21 SDG targets with an end date of 2020. Official data sources relating to the 12 environmental
targets ending in 2020 shows these targets will not be met by 2020. These targets are critical to the
success of many of the other SDGs. For example, four years into Agenda 2030, the world is almost
irretrievably off track to meet SDG 6. As the global water crisis is deepening, the clock is ticking for
accelerated action and ambitious commitment from national governments - inaction could result in more
than 5 billion people suffering water shortages by 2050 due to climate change, increased demand and
polluted supplies (World Water Development Report).
The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and SDG targets on biodiversity must be in alignment. In
the process leading to the adoption of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD) has a key role to play in steering political will and action, facilitating synergies
between multilateral stakeholders, and developing an ambitious and transformative framework with
concrete means of implementation. Acceleration to meet the targets with a 2020 deadline is not a realistic
option as these targets will not be met in time. Instead, there is an urgent need to re-evaluate the
processes that have failed thus far, to eliminate harmful policies and change course on means of
implementation and monitoring.
Member states must ensure ambitious and continuous action on these and other SDG targets with a 2020
timeline. This set of SDG targets must be revised and renewed to include mechanisms for effective
implementation, monitoring and reporting.
Progress on SDG 16.10 will accelerate the achievement of the overall 2030 Agenda. Public access to
information (ATI) enables all stakeholders to report on the specific issues and hold their governments to
account. ATI contributes to the generation of documentation and data, a prerequisite to ensure an
effective reviewing process on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, the evaluation of
progress towards SDG 16+ of the UN member states needs to take into account nongovernmental data
sources. Governments can report accurately on the existence (or not) of national ATI laws but they should
not be the sole authority on how these laws are being implemented. This requires input from experienced
users of these ATI laws and systems, which includes citizens, media and civil society.
“Leaving no one behind” as a guiding principle should also be applied to data collection and the inclusion
of nongovernmental data sources should be implemented for all SDGs. Progress on ATI must take into
account not only the existence and enforcement of access to information laws and systems, but also the
overall national legal and political and security environment for independent media, academia and civil
society. Without press freedom, accelerating the implementation of the SDGs is severely skewed and
limited. Genuine press freedom - and genuine national progress overall as measured by progress in all 17
SDGs - requires guaranteed public access to official information on everything pertinent to both the use of
public resources and national progress towards these agreed development goals.
The VNR process is a critical touchpoint in national progression toward achieving the SDGs. Member
states should:
1. Formally recognize the contribution of volunteering to the implementation of the SDGs in their
Voluntary National Reviews.
2. Ensure that Volunteer Groups are fully recognized and supported in the national plans and
strategies for implementing the 2030 Agenda.
3. Support the participation of non-governmental actors in the SDG follow up and review processes.
4. Ensure the accountability, transparency and review framework for the SDGs involves community
consultation at all levels, including representation of the most marginalised voices, as well as the
volunteers that work closest to them.
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Submitted text:

- Climate crisis is water crisis, and as a precondition to preventing and mitigating the water crises that will
accompany rises in global temperatures, countries must recognize the interconnectedness of urgent action
on SDGs 6 and 13. - We call on Member States to make a transformative increase in WASH
funding to achieve SDG 6, and for existing and new climate funds to support resilience
building through effective water governance and management.
Organic and natural realignment through green schools, green enterprises and green
agricultural projects
-The climate crisis is a side effect of the energy crisis, and we have not yet begun to solve our crisis of ever
faster growing demand for energy. -Covering ever more of the earth with solar panels is no better solution
than polluting the atmosphere ever more with CO2 -Therefore to avoid the worst of climate change would
take transformational change in energy policy.

Volunteers in vulnerable communities are on the front lines facing the impact of climate change and the
devastation that so often accompanies storms of increasing strength. Volunteers from abroad also
respond to natural disasters and remain in communities to rebuild and prepare. The IFRC alone has 12
million active volunteers ready to respond to disasters of all kinds. Volunteers are also addressing climate
change before a disaster or shock occurs. For example, in 2018, the European Programme of Volunteering
in Humanitarian Aid (EUAV), led by France Volontaires, launched the TERO program (Territoires
Engagés pour la Résilience des Oasis or Territories Engaged for the Resilience of Oases). The TERO
programme is designed to raise awareness of the threat of climate change and how to address it. The effort
is developing partnerships with youth organisations and environmental protection organisations to create
training courses for volunteers in Morocco, Mauritania, and Tunisia.
humidity, precipitation, and topography
Emergency Preparedness for Natural Hazards Disasters: When individuals and families in the community
are prepared, they are able to respond to the emergency situation and recover from it more easily and
more quickly than would otherwise be possible. More importantly, they can reduce the amount of
suffering people endure and make their community a better, healthier place. We encourage
governments to help and encourage individuals and families to prepare emergency plans,
with a focus on water storage, food storage, fuel storage, and emergency kits -- depending on the type of
natural disasters that occur in the specific area.
extreme weather events ; air and ocean pollution ; sever hunger and diseases

2 – We must address the drivers/root causes of this crisis:

- Addressing the climate and biodiversity crises requires the expertise, involvement and capacities of
actors at all levels, represented by the members of the Major Groups and other Stakeholders. The Major
Agricultural Innovation and Food Security enhancement, Sustainable Management and protection of
Forests and River Basins, Migration nd the Climate Crisis.
3 – Collaborative action from all stakeholders is key
All parts of society – meaningful engagement and concrete actions (youth, IPLCs, local
authorities, ….)
We have not developed specific messaging in this area.
Holistic approach, grassroots mobilization and collective approach
Education, Education, Education. We made a BIG mistake thinking the severe limits to growing fossil fuel
use would vanish if we swapped it for blanketing the earth with ever-growing uses of wind and solar. We
simply MUST learn our lesson once and for all. ????!!

Governments should not overlook the extraordinary resource available from people willing to participate
in development actions. This year, more than a billion people around the world will volunteer, giving
freely of their time, talent and expertise to help individuals and organisations. These volunteers, whose
efforts are often not recognised or acknowledged, are making a critical contribution to the
implementation and monitoring of the SDGs, helping to ensure that no one is left behind.
Volunteers are helping to extend the reach of a range of SDG-related services to poor and marginalised
people. Volunteers can get to places that others cannot. From community volunteers promoting access to
health services for prisoners, to “big sister” mentors in Nepal who are helping girls stay in school,
volunteers are embedded in communities and are reaching those who are “hard to reach.” We can only
begin to meet the SDGs’ ambitious commitments if we listen to the voices of those who are left behind and
we involve people in solutions to their own development. Volunteers, who often provide a link to those
who are furthest from the sight of governments, can facilitate and enable these processes through citizen
led monitoring and other mechanisms. We ask that you listen to these voices and recognise, enable and
support their contributions.
political activity, membership and volunteering in Civil Society
can democracy in crisis deal with climate crisis ; participatory democracy is a tool for
climate change ; local leaders are the peoples climate movement : you cant change the past
but you can change the future
Synergies among local leaders and communities including all stakeholders groups and policy
makers.
Local stakeholders and civil society organisations, represented through the NGO Major Group, are at
the heart of SDG implementation and ideally positioned to assess progress on SDGs.
According to the principle of leaving no one behind, their participation should be integrated
into the official reporting process. Indeed, most of the SDGs requires better accountability as
well as stronger public scrutiny in order to be fully implemented and later, to reach the 2030 Agenda
objectives.

4 - Accelerate action through investments in transformation (please

specify what area of transformation aligned with GSDR elements)
Resource mobilization: Member States must strengthen and renew action on domestic resource
mobilisation (DRM), with support for low-income countries to broaden tax bases and tackle corruption
and illicit financial flows.

Governments must examine the implementation of new taxes on carbon and financial transactions and a
rapid phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies as new sources of funding that can play a key role in meeting
SDG financing gaps.

High-income country governments must adopt a new urgency in meeting Official Development Assistance
(ODA) and climate finance targets as part of their international development and climate change
responsibilities.

Strengthening social capital: Worldwide there are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10
and 24 – the largest-ever population of young people. More than 20 per cent are not active in education,
training, or employment. To address this, IMPACT2030 is collaborating with UNICEF and Generation
Unlimited to mobilize companies around the world and develop a unified strategy that will combine
capabilities, resources, and innovative approaches to activate employee volunteers to teach critical
foundational, digital, job, and entrepreneurial skills and prepare youth for the future. One such company,
Tata Consultancy Services, has created an IT training program where nearly 3,000 volunteers in 59 cities
across North America have contributed 200,000 hours to train and educate 17,000 students and prepare
them for work in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math focused careers.12 Skills for Life is a
volunteer program led by United Way Brazil that brings professionals from partner companies and
vulnerable youth together to facilitate the development of soft skills. Over the last 10 years, United Way
Brazil has directly impacted more than 1,300 young people, involving a similar number of mentors from
partner companies.

Responding to drivers: Investments must be made towards ecosystem and land restoration and
supporting practical alternatives to unsustainable agriculture production such as agroecology, traditional
agricultural practices, crop diversification, animal-welfare friendly systems and community-based
farming solutions that work to protect biodiversity rather than destroy it. (Aligned with GSDR Entry Point
3 - Food and Nutrition) - Investments must be made in educating consumers about sustainable, nutritious
and healthy food consumption patterns that are low in animal-sourced products and high in plant-based
alternatives. (Aligned with GSDR Entry Point 3 - Food and Nutrition) - Investments must be made in
supporting the research, development and promotion of healthy, environmentally friendly systems and
products, including meat and dairy alternatives. (Aligned with GSDR Entry Point 3 - Food and Nutrition)

Transforming governance: Investments conducive to the transparency and accountability of

institutions improve good governance. Accountability through public access to information (ATI) counters
corruption and ensures development efforts are maximized. In essence, ATI is a public policy measure,
and can readily be achieved by the appropriate allocation of resources and sufficient political will. In that
sense, SDG 16.10 (“Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance
with national legislation and international agreements”) can be considered as one of the “easier” targets to
achieve.
Investment in green projects , green school and targeted green capacity building
All-round development, economic welfare and strong macroeconomic indicators.
stop plastic waste ; travel green ; save energy :

- Investments must be made towards ecosystem and land restoration and supporting
practical alternatives to unsustainable agriculture production such as agroecology,
traditional agricultural practices, crop diversification, animal-welfare friendly systems
and community-based farming solutions that work to protect biodiversity rather than
destroy it. (Aligned with GSDR Entry Point 3 - Food and Nutrition) - Investments must be made in
educating consumers about sustainable, nutritious and healthy food consumption patterns
that are low in animal-sourced products and high in plant-based alternatives. (Aligned with
GSDR Entry Point 3 - Food and Nutrition) - Investments must be made in supporting the
research, development and promotion of healthy, environmentally friendly systems and
products, including meat and dairy alternatives. (Aligned with GSDR Entry Point 3 - Food and
Nutrition)
participate in technology transfer and capacity building and peaceful societies.
Investments conducive to the transparency and accountability of institutions improve good
governance. Accountability through public access to information (ATI) counters corruption
and ensures development efforts are maximized. In essence, ATI is a public policy measure, and can
readily be achieved by the appropriate allocation of resources and sufficient political will.
In that sense, SDG 16.10 (“Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in
accordance with national legislation and international agreements”) can be considered as one of the
“easier” targets to achieve.

5 - SDG targets – process and acceleration

There are 21 SDG targets with an end date of 2020. Official data sources relating to the 12 environmental
targets ending in 2020 shows these targets will not be met by 2020. These targets are critical to the
success of many of the other SDGs. For example, four years into Agenda 2030, the world is almost
irretrievably off track to meet SDG 6. As the global water crisis is deepening, the clock is ticking for
accelerated action and ambitious commitment from national governments - inaction could result in more
than 5 billion people suffering water shortages by 2050 due to climate change, increased demand and
polluted supplies (World Water Development Report).

The post-2020 Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and SDG targets on
biodiversity must be in alignment. In the process leading to the adoption of the post-2020 global
biodiversity framework, the CBD has a key role to play in steering political will and action, facilitating
synergies between multilateral stakeholders, and developing an ambitious and transformative framework
with concrete means of implementation. Acceleration to meet the targets with a 2020 deadline is not a
realistic option as these targets will not be met in time. Instead, there is an urgent need to re-evaluate the
processes that have failed thus far, to eliminate harmful policies and change course on means of
implementation and monitoring.

Member states must ensure ambitious and continuous action on these and other SDG targets with a 2020
timeline. This set of SDG targets must be revised and renewed to include mechanisms for effective
implementation, monitoring and reporting.

Progress on SDG 16.10 will accelerate the achievement of the overall 2030 Agenda. Public access to
information (ATI) enables all stakeholders to report on the specific issues and hold their governments to
account. ATI contributes to the generation of documentation and data, a prerequisite to ensure an
effective reviewing process on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, the evaluation of
progress towards SDG 16+ of the UN member states needs to take into account nongovernmental data
sources. Governments can report accurately on the existence (or not) of national ATI laws but they should
not be the sole authority on how these laws are being implemented. This requires input from experienced
users of these ATI laws and systems, which includes citizens, media and civil society.

“Leaving no one behind” as a guiding principle should also be applied to data collection and the inclusion
of nongovernmental data sources should be implemented for all SDGs. Progress on ATI must take into
account not only the existence and enforcement of access to information laws and systems, but also the
overall national legal and political and security environment for independent media, academia and civil
society. Without press freedom, accelerating the implementation of the SDGs is severely skewed and
limited. Genuine press freedom - and genuine national progress overall as measured by progress in all 17
SDGs - requires guaranteed public access to official information on everything pertinent to both the use of
public resources and national progress towards these agreed development goals.

- Four years into Agenda 2030, the world is almost irretrievably off track to meet SDG 6. As
the global water crisis is deepening, the clock is ticking for accelerated action and ambitious commitment
from national governments. - Inaction could result in more than 5 billion people suffering
water shortages by 2050 due to climate change, increased demand and polluted supplies
(World Water Development Report). - We call on Member States to develop clear and
ambitious action plans to achieve SDG 6 that include robust policy supported by adequate
financing, including renewed efforts to mobilise resources from taxes, tariffs and
transfers.
Innovation drive in green programs and projects from local, national, regional and global.
As member state take stock of the SDG review process, we urge them to think about: - How
to ensure comprehensive multi-stakeholder engagement - How they can really include
those who are most marginalized in the process and SDG delivery, and - Accepting citizen
generated data from communities and volunteers, which can inform and support policy
making
At all levels understand synergies and trade-offs and identify and unlock bottlenecks. for
affordable and clean energy ; life below water ; good health and well being
The post-2020 Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and SDG targets on
biodiversity must be in alignment. In the process leading to the adoption of the post-2020
global biodiversity framework, the CBD has a key role to play in steering political will and
action, facilitating synergies between multilateral stakeholders, and developing an
ambitious and transformative framework with concrete means of implementation. -
Acceleration to meet the targets with a 2020 deadline is not a realistic option as these
targets will not be met in time. Instead, there is an urgent need to reevaluate the processes
that have failed thus far, to eliminate harmful policies and change course on means of
implementation and monitoring.
SDGs,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,1213,14,16,16,17
Progress on SDG 16.10 will accelerate the achievement of the overall 2030 Agenda. Public access to
information (ATI) enables all stakeholders to report on the specific issues and hold their governments to
account. ATI contributes to the generation of documentation and data, a prerequisite to ensure an
effective reviewing process on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, the evaluation of
progress towards SDG 16+ of the UN member states needs to take into account nongovernmental data
sources. Governments can report accurately on the existence (or not) of national ATI laws but they should
not be the sole authority on how these laws are being implemented. This requires input from experienced
users of these ATI laws and systems, which includes citizens, media and civil society. “Leaving no one
behind” as a guiding principle should also be applied to data collection and the inclusion of
nongovernmental data sources should be implemented for all SDGs. Progress on ATI must take into
account not only the existence and enforcement of access to information laws and systems, but also the
overall national legal and political and security environment for independent media,academia and civil
society. Without press freedom, accelerating the implementation of the SDGs is severely skewed and
limited. Genuine press freedom - and genuine national progress overall as measured by progress in all 17
SDGs - requires guaranteed public access to official information on everything pertinent to both the use of
public resources and national progress towards these agreed development goals.

6 - Others - specify
An example is the GREEN SCHOOL AND GREEN ENTERPRISES FOR A GREEN WORLD Campaigns by
the HETAVED SKILLS ACADEMY AND NETWORKS done in public and private partnership available at
https://balancedlivingacademy.blogspot.com
Because the VNR is a critical touchpoint in a progression toward achieving the SDGs, we
suggest member states take these four actions in the coming years: First, formally
recognize the contribution of volunteering to the implementation of the SDGs in their
Voluntary National Reviews. Next, ensure that Volunteer Groups are fully recognized and
supported in the national plans and strategies for implementing the 2030 Agenda. Third,
support the participation of non-governmental actors in the SDG follow up and review
processes. And finally, ensure the accountability, transparency and review framework for
the SDGs involves community consultation at all levels, including representation of the
most marginalised voices, as well as the volunteers that work closest to them.
Strategizing, prioritizing and accelerating progress.
youth ; kids are the keys of the future ; no one behind climate chamge
Taking concrete and immediate actions in leaving no one behind.