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Peru: Taking Action for Sustainable Development

The SDGs are a sign of hope for our youngsters. Today, the phrase 'our future is in the hands of youth' makes more sense than ever. Let the SDGs invade their spirit.

Daniel Henriquez Director of High Performance School,

Peruvian children from the Amazon region getting to know the SDGs © Monica Suarez/PNUD Peru Our government plan and public What are the bold actions taken by the Government to achieve policies coincide with the United the Sustainable Development Goals in Peru? Nations Sustainable Development Goals set out in this organization's Governments play a key role in the SDGs: “Objectives to Agenda 2030. achieving the Sustainable transform our country.” It Development Goals (SDGs) considers developing sectoral through setting and statistical data and technical implementing policy frameworks reports in compliance with the and standards at the national SDGs at all state levels. Peru’s level. public policies now include a specific strategy to tackle Peru has prepared its “Pre- poverty, especially in suburban The route to the Bicentennial of image of Peru in 2030” to begin areas and a specific programme Independence will be marked by an emphasis on combating poverty the dialogue for a concerted to anemia in its national vision that will guide the design and lack of opportunities, focusing goals on nutrition. Peru's public policies on the of the National Strategic achievement of the Development Plan to 2030 The new National Curriculum for Sustainable Development Goals. based on the 2030 Agenda for Basic Education now includes Sustainable Development. To competencies and capacities monitor and follow-up on its related to comprehensive sexual Prime Minster of Peru implementation process, the education. Peru has also country has created the System published the first national for Monitoring the Indicators of estimates of unpaid domestic

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Young student explaining her design for the new logo of SDG 3 in Quechua with SDG logos in (Cuzco) © Paola Delgado/PNUD Peru © Emily Alvarez /UNIC Lima work, presenting the Unpaid Why do the above actions victims of femicide, mostly Domestic Work Satellite matter to the people in Peru? perpetrated by their partners. Account. In Peru, between 2014 and Regarding women’s unpaid Implementation of public 2015, extreme monetary poverty work, the percentage of the investment to finance fell from 4.28 per cent to 4.07 value of domestic labor in sustainable development has per cent, and total monetary relation to GDP, is between improved in recent years, poverty fell from 25.8 per cent to 20.4% and 24.2%. Therefore, reaching 91% of total investment 23.9 per cent. However, poverty the aforementioned actions are plans. In addition, following the is higher in (3.5 million) pivotal for the country’s future. serious damages caused to the than in rural areas (3.3 million). country’s infrastructure by the El The government is preparing to What Goals of the 17 SDGs Nino phenomenon in March tackle this economic disparity have been particularly 2017, the Government plans to with a differentiated strategy. advanced in Peru? implement a national plan of The government’s actions reconstruction. In the health sector, official statistics show in 2015, 43.5 per particularly tackle issues on Goal Efforts have been made to cent of children under 3 years of 1 on no poverty, Goal 2 on zero publicize the 2030 Agenda age suffered from anemia. hunger, Goal 3 on good health nationwide, including through the and well-being, and Goal 7 on use of the SDG branding and Peru is one of the countries with affordable and clean energy. the newly designed icons by the highest indicators of violence students in Quechua, the native based on gender in Latin spoken in the America. Between 2009 and . 2015, 795 Peruvian women were

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