Introduction to the 2030 Agenda: A New Agenda for a Sustainable World

An e-course to provide a primer on the 2030 Agenda for national authorities and civil society stakeholders, among other key stakeholders. The course is designed to address critical knowledge gaps, including an improved understanding of the changes required from policy-makers and ordinary citizens to achieve the SDGs. The e-course is designed to address this type of learning needs and answer key questions, including: Are the SDGs significantly different from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? What does a new focus on “leaving no one behind” mean for our policies? What kind of inequalities exist and why is it important to address them? What is policy integration? How exactly are these 17 global goals to be translated into national policy action? Its course content primarily draws on the key UN Member States’ Outcome Documents such as “Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development” and “Addis Ababa Action Agenda”. It has also benefited from the substantive expertise of the UN secretariat and other UN sister agencies.