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A ROADMAP FOR SDG IMPLEMENTATION IN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Government of Aruba would like to express its gratitude to the United Nations Development Group, the United Nations Development Programme Trinidad & Tobago Office and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Disclaimer: this is a synopsis of the original document entitled ‘A Roadmap for SDG Implementation in Aruba’. Those interested to read the document in its entirety can do so accessing the document on the SDG Aruba website (www.sdgaruba.com) TABLE OF CONTENTS

04 INTRODUCTION

06 ROADMAP TOWWARD SDG IMPLEMENTATION IN ARUBA

ALIGNMENTT: ASSESSING NATIONAL PRIORITIES 06 AND THE SSDGS

12 FINANCING THE SDGS

13 DATA, MONINITORING AND REPORTING

15 COORDINATTION: INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS

18 ADVOCACY: A VISION 2030 ACTION CAMPAIGN INTRODUCTION

The SDG Roadmap is a document Given the ambition and the all-encompassing that provides direction to Aruba for nature of the SDGs and the implementation the implementation of the Sustainable restrictions that governments and other Development Goals (SDGs) at the national partners in society have to deal with, level. It is developed according to guiding prioritization is essential. This means that not all principles stipulated by the United Nations 17 SDGs can be implemented simultaneously Development Group (UNDG) as the aim with the same emphasis if one wants to of the SDGs are to assist countries in their achieve good results. Priority should be given development agenda and set priorities where to a series of catalyst-based measures to the focus is on enhancing the quality of life accelerate the progress of goals and targets, for all citizens and ensuring that No One is taking into account the integrated nature of Left Behind. The 2030 Agenda is organized the Agenda 2030, the specific national context along five themes: and the need to improve the economic, social • People and environmental dimensions of sustainable • Planet development to guarantee a balanced • Prosperity development. Such catalyst measures are • Peace defined as ‘accelerators’. • Partnership and aims to influence the countries entire Accelerators refer to prioritized areas that, development agenda. when addressed, can directly incorporate multiple development priorities and have a In the case of Aruba, a participatory multiplier effect on the SDGs. Accelerators are methodology was chosen to develop a draft identified through consultations and empirical Roadmap for Implementation of the United evidence, the development of a theory of Nations 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable change that determines the path through Development Goals. The United Nations which an accelerator can have maximum Development Programme (UNDP) conducted impact. An analysis of the challenges - and a Rapid Integrated Assessment of existing interventions to overcome them - for each policy documents, including ‘Nos Aruba accelerator was also carried out, resulting 2025’, and held participatory sessions with in a combination of interventions for SDG government departments, NGOs and the acceleration. private sector to develop a roadmap for Aruba. The draft Roadmap is based on the work done by UNDP and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

4 The process of coming up with accelerators as a priority policy areas that serve as an input for the implementation of the SDGs on Aruba, Our island is blessed with many unique followed the implementation process developed “qualities and more importantly, the Aruban by the United Nations, the MAPS method; people are known for their creativity and acceleration through mainstreaming and policy spirit of invention. All of this, create the right support. Aruba is guided by the United Nations environment for change and innovation. This Development Programme (UNDP) to develop its will allow us to build the future we want to national accelerators. see for the generations to come.”

Based on the development context of Aruba, PRIME MINISTER OF ARUBA MRS. EVELYN WEVER-CROES and the input provided during the participatory stakeholder sessions, nine accelerators were proposed by the United Nations to catalyze progress towards the SDGs these accelerators are: *At the minimum these goals

1. Youth Empowerment 2. Quality of Life and Wellbeing

3. Natural Resources Management

4. Energy Efficiency & Energy Diversification 5. Entrepreneurship & an Enabling Business Environment 6. Sustainable Tourism 7. Strengthen Institutional Quality & Capacity 8. Strengthen Statistical Capacity

9. Aruba as a Model for Sustainable Development

5 PEOPLE PILLAR

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT QUALITY OF LIFE & WELLBEING CHALLENGES CHALLENGES a. Dropout rates and repetition at school a. Lack of empowerment of different g r o u p s b. Inadequate training of the population c. Adolescent pregnancy b. The need for increasing community health d. Youth unemployment and wellbeing e. Limited options for youth c. Lack of professional capacity and a f. Behavior problems monolithic health care system g. Right of the child d. Single-Parents (of Dependent Children) with impaired self-sufficiency e. Lack of integration of immigrants

INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS ACCELERATIONS ACCELERATIONS i. Strengthen education policies i. Integrated approach on vulnerable groups • Match market needs with trainings • Identify vulnerable groups in the Aruban ii. Expand reproductive health and care society policies • Empower other vulnerable groups • Enforce children’s rights • Enforce participation of different iii. Create job opportunities for youth stakeholders to partner with vulnerable iv. Improve community services groups v. Attend behavioral problems • More cohesion in government programs to assist vulnerable groups ii. Programs with focus on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) iii. National activities with focus on mental wellbeing and social,emotional interventions iv. Expand the welfare to workfare program

6 PEOPLE PILLAR PLANET PILLAR

QUALITY OF LIFE & WELLBEING NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS CHALLENGES ACCELERATIONS - CONTINUED a. Behavior that is unfriendly to the v. Programs with focus on single environment parents (of dependent children) with b. Urban-coastal development that leads to impaired self-sufficiency habitat fragmentation • Transforming lives c. The island, in particular its coastal areas, • Implementing a local approach in is very vulnerable to climate change working with identified troubled d. Current natural resource management families is characterized by fragmented, • Targeting single-parents with insufficiently coordinated, interventions dependent children with subsidized by government and NGO’s national programs of vocational e. Water is a scarce resource on the island training and adult education and water pollution is a threat vi. Improve physical and mental health f. There is limited effectiveness and system enforcement of the current legislation vii. Integration programs for migrants INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS ACCELERATIONS

i. Promote environmentally friendly behavior and mindset ii. Establish a marine and land protected area system iii. Enhance regulatory effectiveness and enforcement iv. Incentivize sustainable use of oceans and coastal natural assets v. Promote environmentally conscious behavior in business and consumers

7 PLANET PILLAR PROSPERITY PILLAR

NATURAL RESOURCES ENERGY EFFICIENCY & ENERGY MANAGEMENT DIVERSIFICATION INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS CHALLENGES ACCELERATIONS - CONTINUED a. Available land limits the expansion of wind vi. Strengthen institutional capacity for energy (most cost-effective renewable ecological data and mainstreaming energy option) with national accounts b. With increasing share of renewable energy in vii. Impact of climate change the grid, the need for storage capacity to viii. Pollution deal with variability of solar and wind resources increases, but this will increase the