On thought leadership, a great deal of analytical rigor is required, and it is already underway, from the World Development Indicators, to the Trajectories for Sustainable Development Report, and expected adaptations to the Global Monitoring Report. The World Bank Group can help catalyze the SDGs and the rest of the 2030 agenda through thought leadership, global convening, and country-level uptake. Over the past years, the World Bank Group has made several commitments related to the 2030 Development Agenda, including, but not limited to: the MDBs agreement in Addis in 2015 to a collective $400 billion in development spending from 2016-2018, as well as measures to promote domestic resource mobilization at our Annual Meetings in Lima, the Bank Group commitment to Household Budget Surveys for the 78 poorest countries and the at Paris Agreement talks, the Bank Group’s announced targets for the percentage of our portfolio that will be climate financing. Among the 17 SDGs, ending extreme poverty is goal number one, and it is the same for the World Bank Group. For the first time, the world has set a deadline for ending extreme poverty - by 2030. Nearly 800 million people now live in extreme poverty – earning $1.90 per day or less. The SDGs, which were formulated with strong participation from the World Bank Group, are fully consistent with the World Bank Group’s own twin goals to end poverty and build shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. These 17 targets, in areas such as health, gender, jobs, and poverty reduction, are part of a comprehensive global agenda to end poverty in a single generation. The Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 are an historic global achievement. The SDGs are aligned with the World Bank Group’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity, and the WBG is working with client countries to deliver on the 2030 agenda through three critical areas: (i) finance, (ii) data, and (iii) implementation – supporting country-led and country-owned policies to attain the SDGs. These efforts will guide the UN system and the UN-World Bank Group partnership through 2030. Over the years, the WBG has collaborated with the UN in nearly every region and sector, and its engagement has deepened since the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs), and now with the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs).Ģ015 was a historic year with the adoption of a new approach to development finance through the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, a disaster risk framework in Sendai, and the Paris Climate Agreement at COP21. The World Bank Group has a treaty-based relationship with the United Nations (UN) that dates back to its founding, and through that relationship, works to build a partnership that supports Member States and contributes to effective development outcomes while preserving the distinct mandates of each institution. The World Bank Group’s Twin Goals, the SDGs, and the 2030 Development Agenda Democratic Republic of Congo - Français.

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