This handbook for Youth explores the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda from a youth perspective as they channel their passion and energy towards the collective journey to build a sustainable world for all.
This Handbook is an outcome of the Office’s internship program that brings students closer to the work of the United Nations as well as to the achievement of the ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In September 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was formally adopted along with 17 Goals and 169 targets to end poverty, protect the planet, and bring prosperity to all human beings over the next 15 years. Youth are not just beneficiaries of this process – they are essential actors in achieving these Goals. Both young men and women have enormous ability to make change not only for themselves, but also for their societies and the rest of the world.
Young people aged between 15 and 24 in the East and North-East Asian region alone make up over 20 percent of the world’s youth. As citizens of the world, youth have the right to learn and participate in implementing the Post-2015 Development Agenda in partnership with other stakeholders of their societies.
UN and SDGs: A Handbook for Youth explores SDGs and the 2030 Agenda from a youth perspective. In the first chapter, it introduces the concept of sustainable development and outlines its historical development through the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to SDGs. The second chapter discusses how youth can be harnessed as a major agent of change in achieving sustainable development, focusing on several pertinent youth issues in Asia and the Pacific. The final chapter introduces the UN system and its regional arm, ESCAP, explaining their role in the successful implementation of SDGs.
Structure
- Chapter 1. Sustainable Development and SDGs
- Sustainable Development
- History
- SDGs
- From MDGs to SDGs
- Post-2015 Development Agenda
- SDGs at a Glance
- Next Steps toward SDGs
- Sustainable Development
- Chapter 2. Youth and SDGs
- Youth and Sustainable Development
- Importance of Youth
- Major Youth Issues and SDGs
- Youth and the United Nations
- Roles of Youth
- Youth and Sustainable Development
- Chapter 3. United Nations and ESCAP
- United Nations
- Structure
- United Nations and SDGs
- ESCAP
- ESCAP and SDGs
- ESCAP-ENEA Office
- United Nations
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