Support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations in September 2015.

What success looks like

Canada's international assistance helps countries make progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and helps to build a more peaceful, inclusive and prosperous world.

Government's narrative on progress

Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy is explicitly aligned with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ensure that investments are coordinated with the rest of the international community. Sustainable Development Goal 5—achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls—is at the heart of Canada's approach to implement the SDGs because it will help to drive progress on all other SDGs and to eradicate poverty. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is central to the government's partnership with all civil society organizations to maximize the impact of Canada’s international assistance. Budget 2018 highlighted the government's commitment to the SDGs at home and abroad. In April 2018, the government announced the development of a national strategy that will catalyze action on the SDGs across the country, and launched the Voluntary National Review Web portal to invite Canadians to share their stories of how they are helping to advance the SDGs. In July 2018, Canada delivered its first Voluntary National Review (VNR) to the United Nations. The VNR report highlights Canada’s efforts and success over the past three years, underlining challenges that remain, and outlines Canada’s way forward on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. At the G7 Summit, leaders made progress against SDG 4 - Quality Education by endorsing the Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education for Girls, Adolescent Girls and Women in Developing Countries to increase opportunities for at least 12 years of safe and quality education for all and to dismantle the barriers to girls’ and women’s quality education. Canada announced funding of $400 million and was joined by the European Union, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the World Bank, to announce an investment of close to $3.8 billion in education for women and girls in crisis and conflict situations. On September 26, 2018 at the United General Assembly in New York, Canada welcomed an additional contribution of more than $527 million from Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Qatar to help developing countries give every child access to quality education and modern skills training.

Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.