Azerbaijan, UN To Hold Forum On Sustainable Development In Baku
Date
5/22/2023 6:07:10 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 22. The Second Baku Forum
on Sustainable Development will be held in cooperation with the
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in November 2023, Head of
the Department of Sustainable Development and Social Policy under
the Ministry of Economy, Secretary of the National Coordinating
Council for Sustainable Development Huseyn Huseynov told trend .
He said this event will help strengthen international and
regional cooperation in the implementation of the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).
"Besides, we are working on a draft SDG investment map for
Azerbaijan to attract investments to our country," he said.
The official stressed the great importance of the education
sector in the implementation of the SDGs.
"The UN Development Program, the Ministry of Economy and several
leading universities of our country, in particular, the Baku Higher
Oil School and the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, have completed
the 'Sustainable Development Goals and Finance Academy for Youth'
training program. In the future, we also plan to implement such
programs and engage other universities in them," he added.
The UN and its partners in Azerbaijan are working towards
achieving the SDGs: 17 interconnected and ambitious Goals which
address the major development challenges faced by people in
Azerbaijan and around the world. As a result of this partnership,
Azerbaijan has prioritized 17 SDGs, 88 targets, and 119 indicators
covering economic, social, and environmental aspects of sustainable
development.
UNDP has prepared specific steps for Azerbaijan to implement the
SDGs until 2030. Over the last eight years, Azerbaijan has
demonstrated its firm commitment to achieving the 2030 Agenda.
Azerbaijan has been one of the first countries to undertake a
MAPS mission (Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support for
the 2030 Agenda) which outlined concrete policy and programming
steps that could be taken to accelerate the goals nationally, the
experience which was presented at the First Baku Forum on
Sustainable Development in 2018.
This regional event also marked the adoption of the Baku
Principles which established provisions for the integration of SDGs
and acceleration of their implementation. With UN support, the
National Information Portal on SDGs was launched, which introduces
an interactive dashboard, collects consolidated data, and tracks
and monitors progress towards the SDGs in real-time.
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