The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Ensuring Human Rights Today & Ending Poverty Forever. The course will cover the global efforts to end poverty through progressive policy making at the global level to guarantee significant changes on the ground that end poverty and protect our planet while respecting the rights of all people. The corse examines the predecessor of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The time-bound and quantified goals offered an integrated approach to reduce poverty offered insight into the current campaign of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.Participants will learn about the creation of the proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals through the Open Working Group on SDGs. The SDGs are as follows:Goal 1: End Poverty in All Its Forms EverywhereGoal 2: End Hunger, Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition and Promote Sustainable AgricultureGoal 3: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well Being for All at All AgesGoal 4: Ensure Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education and Promote Life Long Learning Opportunities for AllGoal 5: Achieve Gender Equity and Empower All Women and GirlsGoal 6: Ensure Availability and Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for AllGoal 7: Ensure Access to Affordable Reliable Sustainable and Modern Energy for AllGoal 8: Promote Sustained Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth, Full and Productive Employment and Decent Work for AllGoal 9: Build Resilient Infrastructure, Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization and Foster InnovationGoal 10: Reduce Inequality Within and Among CountriesGoal 11: Make Cities and Human Settlement Inclusive Safe, Resilient and SustainableGoal 12: Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production PatternsGoal 13: Take Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and Its ImpactGoal 14: Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development GoalsGoal 15: Protect, Restore and Promote Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Sustainably Manage Forests, Combat Desertification, and Halt and Reverse Land Degradation and Halt Biodiversity LossGoal 16: Promote Peaceful and Inclusive Societies for Sustainable Development, Provide Access to Justice For All and Build Effective, Accountable and Inclusive Institutions at All LevelsGoal 17: Strengthen the Means of Implementation and Revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable DevelopmentThe course will also cover the various mechanisms to draft and determine the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the new machinery being proposed to implement the SDGs in every states. An analysis of the Open Working Group, the Sustainable Development Goals Network, the High Level Political Forum, Sustainable Energy for All and the UN Environment Program. There will be a review of the best practices by states and subsequent initiatives that offer insight into the post 2015 global development agenda. The course will address the origins of sustainable development and the opportunities to transform our nations approach toward developing our economies in a sustainable manner, ending poverty and ensuring dignity and protecting the natural resources of our planet.The interactive discussion is rooted in direct experience of the instructor in the negotiations at the UN World Conference on Environment and Development at Rio+20 as well as participation in the Open Working Group to create the UN Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. There will be educational excursions of empowerment visiting various policy makers and progressive practitioners involved in realization of the SDGs including the UN Sustainable Livelihoods Unit at UN City, the Austrian Development Agency dedicated to assistance and reaching the targets of the SDGs and major NGOs participating in the drafting of the SDGs at the United Nations. The interactive experience allows for greater comprehension of multilateral diplomacy and the coordinated global campaigns to achieve sustainability in solidarity with all people on the planet.
University Post-Graduate Professional Joshua Cooper, University of Hawai'i Political Science Department
Target groupactivists, academics, advocates
Course aimThe UN Sustainable Development Goals: Ensuring Human Rights Today & Ending Poverty Forever. The course will cover the global efforts to end poverty through progressive policy making at the global level to guarantee significant changes on the ground that end poverty and protect our planet while respecting the rights of all people. The corse examines the predecessor of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The time-bound and quantified goals offered an integrated approach to reduce poverty offered insight into the current campaign of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Participants will learn about the creation of the proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals through the Open Working Group on SDGs.
Credits info3 ECTS Participants will receive a certificate of participation at the end of the summer school and all necessary documentation to validate the course at their home university.
Fee infoEUR 0: Reduced participation fee for students.Early registration bonus of 100 until the 31st of December.Later registration bonus of 50 until the 31st of January.Group discount of 100 (at least 4 participants).
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