The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have shaped global development efforts since their adoption in January 2016. The SDGs are expected to serve as the reference for development policy and financing. Mine action stakeholders do well when adapting to this new environment and aligning their strategies and action with the SDGs. SDG mainstreaming in mine action is in its early days.
It is pivotal for the mine action sector to understand how its activities can accelerate progress across the SDGs and how they can be more coherently mainstreamed into national sustainable development efforts. Such understanding helps mine action stakeholders adapt their planning, implementation and reporting in order to maximise their contributions to the achievement of the SDGs.
To this effect, the GICHD and UNDP conducted a study in 2017 that revealed that 16 SDGs are of direct or indirect relevance to mine action. While SDG 16 provides the most direct entry point, the re-establishment of safe physical living environments is, however, not only an objective in itself, but also an enabling pre-condition that makes possible many other development activities: re-opening access to an array of basic services (education, health facilities) and resources, reducing vulnerabilities and increasing inclusion.
The goals
Land release
Victim assistance
Gender mainstreaming in mine action
Risk education
Stockpile destruction and PSSM
Capacity development and partnerships
Direct links
All
No goals
Targets
- End Extreme Poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic services (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- Social protection systems and measures (1.3)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic service (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- End extreme poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- End extreme poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic services (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- No targets for this goal
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Targets
- Access to food (2.1)
- End malnutrition (2.2)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- Access by all to safe, nutritious and sufficient food (2.1)
- End hunger (2.1)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- Access to food (2.1)
- End malnutrition (2.2)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Reduction of maternal mortality (3.1)
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age (3.2)
- Access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- Universal health coverage, access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- No targets for this goal
- Reduction of maternal mortality (3.1)
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age (3.2)
- Access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Girls and boys complete primary and secondary education (4.1)
- Access to pre-primary, vocational, tertiary education (4.2; 4.3)
- Access to education, vocational training for the vulnerable (4.5)
- Disability-sensitive education facilities (4.a)
- No targets for this goal
- Girls and boys complete primary and secondary education (4.1)
- Access to pre-primary, vocational, tertiary education (4.2; 4.3)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women's full and effective participation (5.5)
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- End discrimination against women (5.1)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- Reforms for women’s equal rights to economic resources, access to ownership (5.a)
- Policies and legislation to promote gender equality and empowerment of women (5.c)
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women's full and effective participation (5.5)
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- Universal, equitable access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- No targets for this goal
- Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Access to modern energy (7.1)
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Targets
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Full and productive employment and decent work (8.5)
- Full and productive employment, decent work for persons with disabilities (8.5)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Full and productive employment and decent work (8.5)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Inclusive, sustainable industrialisation (9.2)
- Integration into value chains and markets (9.3)
- Sustainable resilient infrastructure development (9.a)
- Equitable access to infrastructure (9.1)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- No targets for this goal
- Financial flows to States where need is greatest (10.b)
Targets
- Access to housing, transport systems, public spaces (11.1; 11.2; 11.7)
- Safeguard of world heritage (11.4)
- Affordable transport systems with special attention to persons with disabilities (11.2)
- Universal access to public spaces (11.7)
- No targets for this goal
- Access to housing, transport systems, public spaces (11.1; 11.2; 11.7)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (12.2)
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- Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (12.2)
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Targets
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Targets
- Sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems (14.2)
- No targets for this goal
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Targets
- Restoration of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems, degraded forests, land and soil (15.1; 15.2; 15.3)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
- Inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making (16.7)
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies (16.b)
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies (16.b)
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
- Reduction of violence and illicit arms flows (16.1; 16.4)
- Effective, accountable, transparent institutions (16.6)
- Inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making (16.7)
- Participation of developing countries in institutions of global governance (16.8)
Targets
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- Access to science, innovation, technology, financial resources and knowledge through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation (17.6; 17.16)
- Effective public, public-private, civil society partnerships (17.17)
- Capacity-building support to increase availability of high-quality, timely, reliable, disaggregated data (17.18)
Indirect links
No goals
Targets
- End Extreme Poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic services (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- Social protection systems and measures (1.3)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic service (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- End extreme poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- End extreme poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic services (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Access to food (2.1)
- End malnutrition (2.2)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- Access by all to safe, nutritious and sufficient food (2.1)
- End hunger (2.1)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- Access to food (2.1)
- End malnutrition (2.2)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Reduction of maternal mortality (3.1)
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age (3.2)
- Access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- Universal health coverage, access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- No targets for this goal
- Reduction of maternal mortality (3.1)
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age (3.2)
- Access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Girls and boys complete primary and secondary education (4.1)
- Access to pre-primary, vocational, tertiary education (4.2; 4.3)
- Access to education, vocational training for the vulnerable (4.5)
- Disability-sensitive education facilities (4.a)
- No targets for this goal
- Girls and boys complete primary and secondary education (4.1)
- Access to pre-primary, vocational, tertiary education (4.2; 4.3)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women's full and effective participation (5.5)
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- End discrimination against women (5.1)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- Reforms for women’s equal rights to economic resources, access to ownership (5.a)
- Policies and legislation to promote gender equality and empowerment of women (5.c)
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women's full and effective participation (5.5)
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- Universal, equitable access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- No targets for this goal
- Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Access to modern energy (7.1)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Full and productive employment and decent work (8.5)
- Full and productive employment, decent work for persons with disabilities (8.5)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Full and productive employment and decent work (8.5)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Inclusive, sustainable industrialisation (9.2)
- Integration into value chains and markets (9.3)
- Sustainable resilient infrastructure development (9.a)
- Equitable access to infrastructure (9.1)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- No targets for this goal
- Financial flows to States where need is greatest (10.b)
Targets
- Access to housing, transport systems, public spaces (11.1; 11.2; 11.7)
- Safeguard of world heritage (11.4)
- Affordable transport systems with special attention to persons with disabilities (11.2)
- Universal access to public spaces (11.7)
- No targets for this goal
- Access to housing, transport systems, public spaces (11.1; 11.2; 11.7)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (12.2)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (12.2)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- No targets for this goal
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- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems (14.2)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Restoration of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems, degraded forests, land and soil (15.1; 15.2; 15.3)
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
Targets
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
- Inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making (16.7)
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies (16.b)
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies (16.b)
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
- Reduction of violence and illicit arms flows (16.1; 16.4)
- Effective, accountable, transparent institutions (16.6)
- Inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making (16.7)
- Participation of developing countries in institutions of global governance (16.8)
Targets
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- No targets for this goal
- Access to science, innovation, technology, financial resources and knowledge through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation (17.6; 17.16)
- Effective public, public-private, civil society partnerships (17.17)
- Capacity-building support to increase availability of high-quality, timely, reliable, disaggregated data (17.18)
Based on the study, the GICHD, in cooperation with UNDP and other partners, has started to work with mine action stakeholders to mainstream the SDGs into mine action in a wealth of policy, strategic and operational dimensions. Our objective is to contribute to an ever better and coherent integration of mine action into national sustainable development policy and practice (including SDG processes), increased mine action effectiveness and efficiency, as well as strengthened ability of stakeholders to document the impact of their work.