Share your initiative with the United Nations
In September 2015 all member states of the United Nations (UN) unanimously adopted the World’s most ambitious and comprehensive program to help create a more sustainable world for all and setting 17 specific goals, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be reached by 2030. Therefore, Aruba is also on board with the goal achievement efforts. To achieve a more sustainable and improved Aruba, we would like to hear from the educational, businesses and non-governmental organizations how they are contributing to these goals.
This global TO DO list sets an agenda where development is not only looked at from an economic perspective, but also includes social and environmental aspects. Effectively implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) framework and its very broad Agenda by 2030 and creating a more sustainable Aruba requires a more engaged and action-oriented community.
United and working together, ensures that we achieve more.
To further encourage countries to implement the SDGs, the United Nations has set up the SDG Voluntary National Review (VNR) process, enabling countries to report on the implementation of the SDGs .
This review process by its member states will provide recommendations on how to improve SDG implementation nationally. Based on the reporting, recommendations are provided to improve the national SDG implementation process. Aruba will include its dedicated section in the SDG VNR report of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
On July 14, 2022, all the countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, will present the progress made implementing the SDGs to the United Nations and will also highlight some of the challenges faced. This has all been captured in the Aruba SDG Report that will be presented to the UN.
The SDG Aruba commission, which was instituted to provide strategic direction and to coordinate the implementation of the SDGs organized different sessions to engage the community in order to identify good practices by local organizations in implementing the SDGs.
Many initiatives have been captured and reported on. However, there are more initiatives and opportunities in our community that contribute to achieving the SDGs. We have an opportunity to share these stories in our more elaborate report and on our website. The Kingdom report will be submitted to the UN in digital form with a link to the SDG Aruba website: www.sdgaruba.com
For this we request the education sector, organizations, and/or businesses to submit activities on how they are contributing to the achievement of the SDGs. You can do so by visiting the SDG website and filling in the template with your story on how your entity is implementing the SDGs in Aruba. We want to learn from you.