Sustainable Development Goals

NEW YORK, 18 September 2023 – At the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), two-thirds of child-related indicators are off-pace to meet their targets, according to a new UNICEF report released today. Progress on Children's Well-Being: Centring child rights in the 2030 Agenda warns that as of today, only 6 per cent of…

This brief summarises the findings of a mapping exercise that reviewed the status of the child-related SDG targets and indicators in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, focusing on the following: progress with data availability and data sources; and the integration of national policies and programmes. The ECA region encompasses 55 countries and territories with great context diversity. Some countries in the region have seen conflict or civil strife in recent years, including the current conflict in Ukraine, leaving a complex landscape to monitor and advance the SDG Agenda for children. Political instability is a major challenge for many countries in the region, making it more difficult to integrate SDG indicators into national monitoring and reporting systems.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) chart the course for a brighter, fairer and more prosperous future for all. At the heart of the Agenda is a call to leave no child behind. Five years since world leaders committed to achieving the SDGs, are we on track to achieve the Goals for children? Do we have enough information to know? We have…

The extent to which the world delivers on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will directly affect the future of millions of children – and thus, our shared future as a global community. The SDGs are universal in scope, and their call to leave no one behind puts the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized people – including children – at the top of the agenda. But two years since world leaders committed to achieving the SDGs, are we on track to achieve the goals for children? Do we even have enough information to know? Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era assesses the world’s performance to date, focusing on 44 indicators that directly concern 2030’s most important constituency: children. 44 child-related indicators are integrated across the 17 SDGs. This report arranges these indicators into five dimensions of children’s rights.  > Access country specific data

NEW YORK, 7 March 2018 – Early assessment of progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals confirms an alarming lack of data in 64 countries, as well as insufficient progress toward the SDGs for another 37 countries where the data can be tracked.   The UNICEF report, Progress for Children in the SDG Era , is the first thematic report…