Transforming Our World: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Through Sustainable Development Goal Indicators

J Public Health Policy. 2016 Sep:37 Suppl 1:13-31. doi: 10.1057/s41271-016-0002-7.

Abstract

The United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes violence as a threat to sustainability. To serve as a context, we provide an overview of the Sustainable Development Goals as they relate to violence prevention by including a summary of key documents informing violence prevention efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) partners. After consultation with the United Nations (UN) Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDG), we select specific targets and indicators, featuring them in a summary table. Using the diverse expertise of the authors, we assign attributes that characterize the focus and nature of these indicators. We hope that this will serve as a preliminary framework for understanding these accountability metrics. We include a brief analysis of the target indicators and how they relate to promising practices in violence prevention.

Keywords: accountability measures; indicators; sustainable development; violence prevention.

MeSH terms

  • Capacity Building / organization & administration
  • Child
  • Child Abuse / prevention & control
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Global Health*
  • Humans
  • Internationality
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Resilience, Psychological
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Spouse Abuse / prevention & control
  • United Nations
  • Violence / prevention & control*
  • Women's Rights
  • World Health Organization