The government of Mexico announced to the UN, a commission to promote Sustainable Development Goals
New York, NY, July 19th 2016
As part of the commitment of the government of Mexico to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) agreed last year, the head of the office of the President of Mexico, Francisco Guzman, announced today the creation of a high-level commission to promote and monitor within its territory the Goals.
In his participation during the forum on the development agenda at the UN headquarters, Mr. Guzman said that the commission will be chaired by his office and will include federal agencies, local governments, members of the academia, private sector and civil society in general.
During the presentation on the voluntary review of Mexico’s progress on SDG’s, Mr Guzman informed as well about other measures that the Mexican government would take immediately to meet the 17 objectives and 230 indicators that the international community agreed in 2030. These measures will allow Mexico not only to reach its goals, but to ensure higher standards and quality of life for Mexicans and for the whole world.
The Forum was chaired by Mr. Sven Jürgenson, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the UN and Vice President of ECOSOC and moderated by Mr. Robert Glasser, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. Besides Mexico, the volunteering countries reviewed were Morocco, Sierra Leone, Switzerland and Montenegro.
The SDG’s replace the Millennium Development Goals, which were proposed as the main goal of reducing poverty by half of 1990 levels by 2015, and that Mexico met above the global average rate. The new 2030 challenge is, among other objectives, to eliminate the hunger of the 800 million people who suffer it and to draw from the extreme poverty one in eight people in the world living under these conditions.
Mr. Guzman explained as well in behalf of the Government of Mexico, that the development agenda will be incorporated in planning systems and accountability in Mexico, and that the government will establish an "alliance for sustainability" with the private sector and to promote the goals among municipal and state authorities to also boost these goals.
Mexico will integrate the SDG’s in its international cooperation, particularly in the so-called South-South and triangular, boosting their impact through the Global Alliance for Effective Cooperation.
With these measures and actions, Mexico is following a national, comprehensive strategy to adopt, and above all, to meet the SDG’s in 2030.
With the announcement, Mexico was one of the first 22 countries to voluntarily submit the first progress to finalize the implementation of SDG’s in their national plans, within the framework of the actions of President Enrique Peña Nieto to comply.
In February, a Specialized Technical Committee was created in Mexico. 25 agencies of the federal administration were involved, in order to build a transparent statistical system to facilitate accountability. The Public Monitoring Board Agenda 2030, promoted by the federal government, will provide updated geo-referenced data and compliance with each of the SDG’s in the three levels of government.
