Our Work on the Sustainable Development Goals in Ukraine

How the UN is supporting The Sustainable Development Goals in Ukraine

In September 2015 the 70th session of the UN General Assembly in New York hosted the UN Sustainable Development Summit, which approved new development targets. The final document from the summit, ‘Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 supporting targets. Like other UN Member States, Ukraine joined the global process of sustainable development. A participatory and inclusive process to adapt the SDGs to the Ukrainian context was launched to establish a national strategic framework for Ukraine up to 2030 based on the principle ‘leave no one behind’. Every global target was reviewed, taking into consideration the specific national context. In an open process to contextualize the SDG targets, the High-Level Interministerial Working Group for the organization of the process of implementing the SDGs for Ukraine and 17 Working Subgroups (one for each goal) were set up. Over 800 experts from the subject areas covered by the SDGs — officials, managers, specialists from UN agencies, diplomats, scientists, economists, demographers, health professionals, epidemiologists, ecologists, educators, journalists, businessmen, leaders of non-governmental organizations and other civil society representatives — joined the national SDGs identification process. The process of setting targets and establishing the baseline for further monitoring launched the national discourse on measuring social progress in general and improving the national statistical system. It is necessary to create an open platform to ensure the broad participation of all stakeholders in monitoring progress to achieve the goals.

The Sustainable Development Goals in Ukraine

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global call to action to end poverty, protect the earth’s environment and climate, and ensure that people everywhere can enjoy peace and prosperity. These are the goals the UN is working on in Ukraine:

Where we work: The UN’s programmatic interventions

The UN is implementing 0 programmatic interventions during the ongoing programme cycle. The map below displays the number of programmatic interventions per location (note that a programmatic intervention may be linked to more than one location). Click on the number on the map to get a summary description of the programmatic interventions. Programmatic interventions may be linked to the national level or specific locations/sub-national level. Note that some interventions linked to specific locations might also have components at the national level, even if they are not categorized as country-level interventions. Click on “Show location details” in the bottom right corner to view a summary table with locations, the number of programmatic interventions, and the UN entities working in those locations. For definitions of programmatic interventions, please refer to the Glossary section.

Where is the money going? How the UN contributes to the SDGs

The graph below provides a visual representation of required and available resources, as well as expenditure, that contribute to SDGs. Where a programmatic intervention contributes to multiple SDGs, the funding is divided equally across the SDGs Goals (based on the tagged SDG targets). This visual can be filtered by required resources, available resources and expenditure.

Leveraging UN investments to advance the Sustainable Development Goals

This graphic shows how UN funding is contributing to the work of different agencies and partners to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The width of the lines represents the relative amount of resources being contributed.