United Nations' SDG Scholarships

End poverty, in all its forms, everywhere.

• Eradicate extreme poverty
• Reduce poverty by at least 50%
• Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems
• Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology, and economic resources
• Build resilience to environmental, economic, and social disasters
• Mobilisation of resources to end poverty
• Establishment of poverty eradication policy frameworks at all levels

End hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

• Universal access to safe and nutritious food
• End all forms of malnutrition
• Double the productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers
• Sustainable food production and resilient agricultural practices
• Maintain the genetic diversity in food production
• Invest in rural infrastructure, agricultural research, technology and gene banks
• Prevent agricultural trade restrictions, market distortions and export subsidies
• Ensure stable food commodity markets and timely access to information

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

• Reduce maternal mortality
• End all preventable deaths under 5 years of age
• Fight communicable diseases
• Reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health
• Prevent and treat substance abuse
• Reduce road injuries and deaths
• Universal access to sexual and reproductive care, family planning and education
• Achieve universal health coverage
• Reduce illnesses and deaths from hazardous chemicals and pollution
  Implement the WHO framework convention on tobacco control
• Support research, development and universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines
• Increase health financing and support health workforce in developing countries
• Improve early warning systems for global health risks

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

• Free primary and secondary education
• Equal access to quality pre-primary education
• Equal access to affordable technical, vocational and higher education
• Increase the number of people with relevant skills for financial success
• Eliminate all discrimination in education
• Universal literacy and numeracy
• Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
• Build and upgrade inclusive and safe schools
• Expand higher education scholarships for developing countries
• Increase the supply of qualified teachers in developing countries

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

• End discrimination against women and girls
• End all violence against and exploitation of women and girls
• Eliminate forced marriages and genital mutilation
• Value unpaid care and promote shared domestic responsibilities
• Ensure full participation in leadership and decision-making
• Universal access to reproductive rights and health
• Equal rights to economic resources, property ownership and financial services
• Promote empowerment of women through technology
• Adopt and strengthen policies and enforceable legislation for gender equality

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

• Safe and affordable drinking water
• End open defecation and provide access to sanitation and hygiene
• Improve water quality, wastewater treatment and safe reuse
• Increase water-use efficiency and ensure freshwater supplies
• Implement IWRM
• Protect and restore water-related ecosystems
• Expand water and sanitation support to developing countries
• Support local engagement in water and sanitation management

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

• Universal access to modern energy
• Increase global percentage of renewable energy
• Double the improvement in energy efficiency
• Promote access to research, technology and investments in clean energy
• Expand and upgrade energy services for developing countries

Foster sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.

• Sustainable economic growth
• Diversify, innovate and upgrade for economic productivity
• Promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises
• Improve resource efficiency in consumption and production.
• Full employment and decent work with equal pay
• Promote youth employment, education and training
• End modern slavery, trafficking, and child labour
• Protect labour rights and promote safe working environments
• Promote beneficial and sustainable tourism
• Universal access to banking, insurance and financial services
• Increase aid for trade support
• Develop a global youth employment strategy

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation.

• Develop sustainable, resilient and inclusive infrastructures
• Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation
• Increase access to financial services and markets
• Upgrade all industries and infrastructures for sustainability
• Enhance research and upgrade industrial technologies
• Facilitate sustainable infrastructure development for developing countries
• Support domestic technology development and industrial diversification
• Universal access to information and communications technology

Reduce inequality within and among countries.

• Reduce income inequalities
• Promote universal social, economic and political inclusion
• Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination
• Adopt fiscal and social policies that promotes equality
• Improved regulation of global financial markets and institutions
• Enhanced representation for developing countries in financial institutions
• Responsible and well-managed migration policies
• Special and differential treatment for developing countries
• Encourage development assistance and investment in least developed countries
• Reduce transaction costs for migrant remittances

Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

• Safe and affordable housing
• Affordable and sustainable transport systems
• Inclusive and sustainable urbanisation
• Protect the world's cultural and natural heritage
• Reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters
• Reduce the environmental impacts of cities
• Provide access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces
• Strong national and regional development planning
• Implement policies for inclusion, resource efficiency and disaster risk reduction
• Support least developed countries in sustainable and resilient building

To ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

• Implement the 10-year sustainable consumption and production framework
• Sustainable management and use of natural resources
• Halve global per capita food waste
• Responsible management of chemicals and waste
• Substantially reduce waste generation
• Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices and sustainability reporting
• Promote sustainable public procurement practices
• Promote universal understanding of sustainable lifestyles
• 2Support developing countries' scientific and technological capacity for sustainable consumption and production
• Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable tourism
• Remove market distortions that encourage wasteful consumption

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

• Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters
• Integrate climate change measures into policy and planning
• Build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change
• Implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Promote mechanisms to raise capacity for planning and management

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

• Reduce marine pollution
• Protect and restore ecosystems
• Reduce ocean acidification
• Sustainable fishing
• Conserve coastal and marine areas
• End subsidies contributing to overfishing
• Increase the economic benefits from sustainable use of marine resources
• Increase scientific knowledge, research and technology for ocean health
• Support small scale fishers
• Implement and enforce international sea law

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

• Conserve and restore terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
• End deforestation and restore degraded forests
• End desertification and restore degraded land
• Ensure conservation of mountain ecosystems
• Protect biodiversity and natural habitats
• Protect access to genetic resources and fair sharing of the benefits
• Eliminate poaching and trafficking of protected species
• Prevent invasive alien species on land and in water ecosystems
• Integrate ecosystem and biodiversity in governmental planning
• Increase financial resources to conserve and sustainably use ecosystem and biodiversity
• Finance and incentivise sustainable forest management
• Combat global poaching and trafficking
• Protect the forest from the nature

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

• Reduce violence everywhere
• Protect children from abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence
• Promote the rule of law and ensure equal access to justice
• Combat organised crime and illicit financial and arms flows
• Substantially reduce corruption and bribery
• Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions
• Ensure responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making
• Strengthen the participation in global governance
• Provide universal legal identity
• Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms
• Strengthen national institutions to prevent violence and combat crime and terrorism
• Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development.

• Mobilise resources to improve domestic revenue collection
• Implement all development assistance commitments
• Mobilise financial resources for developing countries
• Assist developing countries in attaining debt sustainability
• Invest in least-developed countries
• Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation
• Promote sustainable technologies to developing countries
• Strengthen the science, technology and innovation capacity for least-developed countries
• Enhanced SDG capacity in developing countries
• Promote a universal trading system under the WTO
• Increase the exports of developing countries
• Remove trade barriers for least-developed countries
• Enhance global macroeconomic stability
• Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
• Respect national leadership to implement policies for the sustainable development goals
• Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development
• Encourage effective partnerships
• Enhance availability of reliable data
• Further develop measurements of progress