Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals

We are working towards SDGs Disability Inclusive 2030 Agenda

To ensure Leave No One Behind and Disability Inclusive 2030 Agenda, Samarthyam is actively engaged in empowering people with disabilities, especially rural, poor marginalized and women with disabilities. Since 2016, we are actively involved in building partnerships on SDGs – Empowering Rural Disabled People’s Organizations in India to achieve a unified voice for inclusion of people with disabilities in all sustainable development related local and UN processes.

Samarthyam with SightSavers India, European Disability Forum and Together 2030 is leading the process to define need, build DPO capacity, advocate for accountability in SDG implementation in systematic & institutionalized manner. We have organized several awareness raising and capacity building training of 15 DPOs in 5 states of India on SDGs along with State Planning Commissions and government agencies. We have developed Disability Score Card in Indian context and piloted it in 5 states with local DPOs as evidence based advocacy, implementation, monitoring and accountability tool to achieve the Agenda 2030.

Sustainable development Goals

During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to develop a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose achievement period concludes in 2015. The SDGs are to address all three dimensions of sustainable development (environmental, economic and social) and be coherent with and integrated into the United Nations global development agenda beyond 2015. The envisaged SDGs have a time horizon of 2015 to 2030.

Disability is referenced in various parts of the SDGs and specifically in parts related to education, growth and employment, inequality, accessibility of human settlements, as well as data collection and monitoring of the SDGs, for instance:

  • Goal 4 on inclusive and equitable quality education and promotion of life-long learning opportunities for all focuses on eliminating gender disparities in education and ensuring equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities. In addition, the proposal calls for building and upgrading education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and also provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all.
  • In Goal 8: to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, the international community aims to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.
  • Closely linked is Goal 10, which strives to reduce inequality within and among countries by empowering and promoting the social, economic and political inclusion of all, including persons with disabilities.
  • Goal 11 would work to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe and sustainable. To realize this goal, Member States are called upon to provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, such as persons with disabilities. In addition, the proposal calls for providing universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, particularly for persons with disabilities.
  • Goal 17 stresses that in order to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development, the collection of data and monitoring and accountability of the SDGs are crucial. Member States are called upon to enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS), which would significantly increase the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data that is also disaggregated by disability.
Anjlee Agarwal

Anjlee Agarwal

Samartyam, Co-Founder & Executive Director

"The SDGs represent an ambitious plan to enhance peace and prosperity, eliminate inequality and discrimination, and eradicate poverty and protect the planet. They are recognized globally as essential to the future sustainability of our equal and just world. This plan of action calls on the contribution from all elements of society, including local and national governments, business, industry and individuals. To be successful, the process requires consensus, collaboration and innovation."

Get in touch with our Accessibility, Mobility & WASH and Gender Equality Team

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