Strengthening Peace through ‘resilience’ in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Policy Brief: Resilience and the Sdgs

In September 2015, heads of state gathered at the UN general Assembly to adopt a new global development agenda, commonly referred to as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Earlier in July 2015, Ministers of finance had met to agree on the means for financing this new development agenda which replaces the Millennium Development Goals that reflected the development priorities between 2000 and 2015. Finally, in March 2016, the UN Statistical Commission agreed on the indicator framework proposed by the Inter Agency Expert Group (IAEG), as a practical starting point for monitoring progress on the goals and targets of the SDGs. Cumulatively, this established the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, based on extensive work of states, multilateral organizations and civil society organizations, that will guide international development policies of the next fifteen years. The attention now shifts to the design and implementation of national level development plans and policies that will enable countries to meet these goals.