THE ECO DAILY

August 2021

Heads of States, UN officials and representatives of civil society gathered in Sept 2015, in the 70th session of the UN General Assembly and adopted the Sustainable Development Goals.

These objectives form a program of sustainable, universal and ambitious development, a program of the people, by the people and for the people, conceived with the active participation of UNESCO.

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The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Countries have committed to prioritize progress for those who are furthest behind. The SDGs are designed to end poverty, hunger, AIDS, and discrimination against women and girls.
The creativity, knowhow, technology and financial resources from all of society is necessary to achieve the SDGs in every context.

The Best Start of the Year

The 2020 Report notes that progress had been made in some areas, such as improving maternal and child health, expanding access to electricity and increasing women’s representation in government. Yet even these advances were offset elsewhere by growing food insecurity, deterioration of the natural environment, and persistent and pervasive inequalities.

Now, in only a short period of time, the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented crisis, causing further disruption to SDG progress, with the world’s poorest and most vulnerable affected the most.
Using the latest data and estimates, this annual stocktaking report on progress across the 17 Goals shows that it is the poorest and most vulnerable – including children, older people, people with disabilities, migrants and refugees – who are being hit the hardest by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Women are also bearing the heaviest brunt of the pandemic’s effects.

Welcome to the Sustainable Development Goal indicators website.

A follow-up and review for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/

The Best Start of the Year

STARVATION MORTALITY INCREASES

In recent years, due to the pandemic, there have been many more deaths due to lack of food.

After decades of steady decline, the number of hungry people began to slowly rise again in 2015. Current estimates indicate that about 690 million people in the world are hungry, or , 8.9 percent of the world's population, which represents an increase of about 10 million people in one year and about 60 million in five years. The world is not on track to reach the goal of zero hunger by 2030. If recent trends continue, the number of people affected by hunger will exceed 840 million people by 2030.
According to the World Food Program, around 135 million people suffer
from severe hunger mainly due to human-caused conflict.
The COVID-19 pandemic could now double that number.

INTERVIEW ABOUT DIABETES

Alicia tells us about her experience.

The Situation of Education in the World

Doctoral Programme for the Inclusion of Women in Science in Angola

Currently, COVID-19 mainly affected health but also education. In Apr 2020, 1.6 bil children and teenagers stayed home due to the pandemic.

The programme receives exceptional funding of $50 million and will focus on seven priority research areas for women to encourage gender equality in the science: environment, water, energy, digital technologies, life sciences, natural resource management, and marine resource management.

Primary school rate grew up to 84% in 2018. Studying these numbers it is believed that 89 will be reached in 2030.

In Sub-Saharan Africa the situation is extreme in the primary and secondary levels, where less than one half of schools have access to drinking water, electricity, computers and the Internet. The gap between under-connected and highly digitalized countries is very important and we need to change this.

Activists at a school in Angola.

As a symbol of this drive for development through knowledge and culture, from April 18 to 22, the first Luanda Biennial for the culture of peace and gender equality was held in the Angolan capital, during which the doctoral training program.

Organized with the support of the African Union, the Government of Angola and with the financial help of two great entrepreneurs, the Luanda Biennial is designed to be a great forum for exchange, dialogue and meeting between Africans from the continent and from the diaspora, in around the arts, cultural heritage and ideas

New law has been passed

Since the declaration of free education, students had been criticizing the exams dates and now it is the moment to change it. This 5th of May the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, have decided a new law in all EU countries that consists of: “Since now there can only be 2 exams per week and 5 projects per month”. Strikes are on the way.

It is a forum where adolescents and women in particular can express their creativity and sense of innovation and embody a force for change, beneficial to gender equality in Africa.