Question

What are MDGs, and SDGs? How are these important for the world?

Answer 1

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): The MDGs were a set of eight time-bound, target-based global goals addressing basic development issues. Three focused on health, highlighting major health challenges around the world.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The SDGs, set out in Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, comprise 17 global goals and 169 targets. They continue the unfinished work of the MDGs and address issues including inclusion, equity and urbanisation.

Importance: These shared goals help countries coordinate action on major global challenges and measure progress against common targets. SDG 3, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, has a broader health focus than the health-related MDGs. It includes universal health coverage: access to good-quality health services without financial hardship. Achieving the goals requires action that reaches people of all ages, including adolescents and people in vulnerable situations.