GOALMAKERS 2020 report: ACCELERATING PROGRESS TOWARD THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
2020 will be remembered as a year of massive global disruption and upheaval. The COVID-19 pandemic has strained our health systems, jolted the global economy, and frayed our social fabric. Additionally, the protests and calls for racial equality in the United States ignited a movement to dismantle systematic racism that reached across the globe.
The overlapping crises of 2020 have also created an opportunity to reset, reimagine, and rebuild existing systems for a more equitable future. Those in the global development community are responding to urgent needs and re-evaluating their role in the world.
And, we already have a roadmap for this work – the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each goal lays out specific targets to achieve a common vision. The pandemic has upended progress on many of these targets, and it is up to us chart a new, more equitable course of action for our future.
In 2020, the Pacific Council worked with GlobalWA and partners across seven U.S. cities on Goalmakers 2020, a collaboration to find new strategies to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Pacific Council represented Los Angeles and focused on SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) and 16 (peace, justice, and strong institutions). The Council worked to promote community awareness around these SDGs and identify Los Angeles’ role in achieving them.
