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.
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.
The goals
SDG by GICHD Activity
Land release
Direct links
- 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)
- 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)
- Access to housing, transport systems, public spaces (11.1; 11.2; 11.7)
- Safeguard of world heritage (11.4)
- Access to food (2.1)
- End malnutrition (2.2)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
Indirect links
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Full and productive employment and decent work (8.5)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems (14.2)
- Access to modern energy (7.1)
- Inclusive, sustainable industrialisation (9.2)
- Integration into value chains and markets (9.3)
- Sustainable resilient infrastructure development (9.a)
- Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (12.2)
- Restoration of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems, degraded forests, land and soil (15.1; 15.2; 15.3)
Victim assistance
Direct links
- Social protection systems and measures (1.3)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic service (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- Access to education, vocational training for the vulnerable (4.5)
- Disability-sensitive education facilities (4.a)
- Equitable access to infrastructure (9.1)
- Inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making (16.7)
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies (16.b)
- Universal health coverage, access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- Full and productive employment, decent work for persons with disabilities (8.5)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- No targets for this goal
Indirect links
- Access by all to safe, nutritious and sufficient food (2.1)
- Universal, equitable access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- Affordable transport systems with special attention to persons with disabilities (11.2)
- Universal access to public spaces (11.7)
Gender mainstreaming in mine action
Direct links
- 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)
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies (16.b)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
Indirect links
- End extreme poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- End hunger (2.1)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
Risk Education
Direct links
- 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)
- 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)
- Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
- Access to food (2.1)
- End malnutrition (2.2)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- 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)
- Access to housing, transport systems, public spaces (11.1; 11.2; 11.7)
Indirect links
- 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)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Full and productive employment and decent work (8.5)
- Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (12.2)
Stockpile destruction and PSSM
Direct links
No goals
Indirect links
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women's full and effective participation (5.5)
- Reduction of violence and illicit arms flows (16.1; 16.4)
Capacity development and partnership
Direct links
- Financial flows to States where need is greatest (10.b)
- 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)
- Effective, accountable, transparent institutions (16.6)
- Inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making (16.7)
- Participation of developing countries in institutions of global governance (16.8)
Indirect links
No goals