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Report of the
Secretary-General
on the Work of
the Organization
2021
Report of the
Secretary-General
on the Work of
the Organization
2021
Contents
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Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization (A/76/1, seventy-sixth session)
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all data in this publication have been sourced from the United Nations.
Cover: Fatema and her 7-year-old daughter. Fatema, who is a domestic worker in Kalayanpur Slum,
lost her job due to the COVID-19 crisis. (Dhaka, Bangladesh; 22 July 2020)
© WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud
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SELECT TRANSFORMATIVE AGENDAS* HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION
The Secretary-General’s Call OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
The long-term objectives of the United Nations revolve around transformative agendas endorsed to Action for Human Rights Entry into force of the Treaty on the
or welcomed by the Member States. Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
MIGRATION UNITED TO COVID-19 GLOBAL COVID-19 VACCINE
Global Compact for Safe, REFORM SOLIDARITY AND SUSTAINED PAUSE
Orderly and Regular Implementation CEASEFIRE TO CONFLICTS
Migration of the Secretary- DECADE OF ACTION
General Assembly Call for a sustained
REFUGEES General’s reform to deliver the Sustainable
resolution 74/270 and humanitarian pause in
Global Compact agenda: development, Development Goals
Security Council resolution hostilities to allow for
on Refugees management, peace 2532 (2020) COVID-19 vaccinations,
and security
Security Council resolution
2565 (2021)
2019 2020 2021
ACTION FOR YOUTH, PEACE 2030 AGENDA AND NEW URBAN COUNTERING
PEACEKEEPING AND SECURITY AGENDA 2063 AGENDA DRUGS
Declaration of Shared Security Council Framework for a Renewed United Nations Joint commitment SUSTAINING PEACE
Commitments on resolutions 2419 United Nations-African Union OCEAN Conference on to effectively New framework for sustaining
United Nations (2018) and 2250 Partnership on Africa’s Housing and address and peace, General Assembly
RESOLUTION
Peacekeeping (2015) Integration and Development Sustainable Urban counter the world resolution 70/262 and identical
Our Ocean,
Operations Agenda 2017–2027, in support Development drug problem, Security Council resolution 2282
Our Future: Call
of the African Union Agenda (Habitat III) General Assembly (2016)
for Action
2063: The Africa We Want resolution S-30/1
2018 2017
2016
BEIJING DECLARATION MAURITIUS DECLARATION AND STRATEGY DOHA DECLARATION
and Platform for Action, Further implementation of the Programme of Action for Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime
Fourth World Conference on Women the Sustainable Development of Small Island Prevention and Criminal Justice
Developing States
WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY 2030 AGENDA
ADDIS ABABA ACTION AGENDA Transforming our world:
Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) WORLD SUMMIT OUTCOME
Third International Conference on Financing the 2030 Agenda for
Development, peace and collective security, human rights, the rule of
for Development Sustainable Development:
MILLENNIUM DECLARATION law and strengthening the United Nations
17 Sustainable Development
Summit and Millenium Development
DOHA DECLARATION VIENNA DECLARATION Goals, providing a shared
Goals
DURBAN DECLARATION Follow-up International Conference on Financing and Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing blueprint for peace and
and Programme of Action, also for Development Countries for the Decade 2014–2024 prosperity for people and
Outcome Document of the the planet, now and into the
Durban Review Conference 2009 ISTANBUL DECLARATION future.
and Programme of Action for the SENDAI FRAMEWORK
SAMOA
MONTERREY Least Developed Countries for Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
PATHWAY Reduction 2015–2030
CONSENSUS the Decade 2011–2020 SIDS Accelerated
International Modalities of
Conference on RIO+20 OUTCOME Action, Conference PARIS AGREEMENT
Financing for on Small Island on climate change, adopted
THE FUTURE WE WANT
Development Developing States by the Parties to the
Conference on Sustainable
United Nations Framework
Development
Convention on Climate
Change
1995 2000 2001 2002 2005 2008 2011 2012 2014 2015
* The diagram shows select transformative agendas since 1995. The list is not exhaustive.
The United Nations programme of work is also guided by several other legislative mandates.
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
K E Y PR I O R I T I E S
• Promotion of sustained economic growth and
Flags outside the General Assembly building sustainable development
during the general debate of the seventy-fifth
session. (New York; 23 September 2020) • Maintenance of international peace and security
© UN Photo/Rick Bajornas • Development in Africa
• Promotion and protection of human rights
• Effective coordination of
humanitarian assistance
• Promotion of justice and international law
• Disarmament
• Drug control, crime prevention and
combating terrorism
This report is issued in response to Article 98 of the Charter
of the United Nations, which mandates the Secretary-
Introduction
General to submit an annual report on the work of the
Organization to the General Assembly. The key priorities
covered in the report correspond to the eight priorities
established by the General Assembly each biennium,
together with a final chapter on the effective functioning of
the Organization.
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
dominated the past year, around the world and at
the United Nations. We are a world in mourning for
the millions of people whom we have lost. The pan-
demic is the greatest shared global challenge since
the founding of our Organization; every country has
faced pain, uncertainty and vulnerability. The global
health, social, economic and human rights crises
The global health, social, economic
triggered by the pandemic have underscored the
importance of multilateral cooperation and tested and human rights crises triggered
it to the limit. by the COVID-19 pandemic have
The United Nations has been central to the pan- underscored the importance of
demic response, from safeguarding people and jobs multilateral cooperation – and tested
to assisting Governments in ensuring a sustainable it to the limit.
and equitable recovery. We supported some 160
António Guterres, Secretary-General
countries in tackling the health, humanitarian, social
and economic impacts of COVID-19 and helped
more than 260 million children to access remote
learning. At the same time, we contributed to the
creation and operationalization of the Access to
COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator and its COVID-19
Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility. The only
The path to stronger, more resilient societies lies
way to end the pandemic is to deliver vaccines to
in a transformative recovery process rooted in
every country.
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
We have also been leading and actively contrib- and the Paris Agreement. Over the past year, we
uting to the larger conversations around health have worked closely with Governments around
security, global financial stability and the dawning the world to launch the decade of action to deliver
recognition of the world’s deep fragility. That fragil- the Sustainable Development Goals, by support-
ity relates to rising poverty and hunger; prolonged ing recovery packages that address the climate
conflicts and human rights crises; skyrocketing crisis, invest in renewable energy and sustainabil-
levels of inequality within and between societies; ity, reduce inequalities and exclusion and promote
the ungoverned development of new technologies; gender equality. We have supported broad efforts
the erosion of the nuclear disarmament regime; to provide robust social protection systems and
and the triple planetary crisis of climate change, strengthen health systems and universal health
biodiversity loss and rising levels of air and water coverage. My call for peace in the home in April
pollution. It has never been clearer that our fates 2020 was followed by a system-wide focus on the
are interconnected and that the inability to solve importance of gender-sensitive response policies,
shared problems is creating unacceptable risks. including protection against gender-based violence.
To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, Volkan Bozkir, President of the seventy-fifth session of the
General Assembly, invited all Member States and observer States to sign the preamble of the Charter of the United Nations as a
gesture of recommitment to its principles. (New York; 23 October 2020) © UN Photo/Manuel Elías
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
Sustainable Development
More than 240 million people accessed essential
Our discussions on financing for development and more expensive than renewable energy. The services with support from United Nations country
forged a new way of doing business, in collaboration Climate Ambition Summit, held in December 2020, teams and resident coordinators; 120 million people
with international financial institutions, and created delivered plans and pledges from 75 countries and benefitted from social protection schemes.
space for innovative ideas to help low- and middle- many businesses and cities on the steps that they
income countries to invest in their people and intended to take to cut global emissions by 45 per
avoid defaulting on debt. A series of round-table cent by 2030 compared with 2010 levels, in accord- Peace and Security
discussions, focusing on women economists, ance with the Paris Agreement. We also mobilized
Deployed 40+ peacekeeping, special political
articulated new strategies for a green, inclusive the international community to address the funding missions and offices to prevent conflict and support
and sustainable recovery. gap for adaptation and resilience measures, high- peacebuilding efforts.
lighting the need to put these on an equal footing
Our efforts to mobilize global climate action,
with efforts to curb emissions. As we look forward
from science-based reports to public advocacy
to the crucial events on climate and biodiversity in Development in Africa
and private negotiation, have contributed to creat-
2021, we will build on these results in an effort to
ing a growing coalition for net zero emissions by
create irreversible momentum for a green recovery Supported 38 countries and 3 Regional Economic
mid-century and to increasing awareness in the Communities in developing national strategies to
and a just transition.
investment community that fossil fuels are riskier harness the benefits of the African Continental Free
Trade Area Agreement.
Human Rights
OVER Launched the Surge Initiative, supporting
36,000 59+ Member States in placing human rights at the
centre of COVID-19 socioeconomic response plans.
UNITED NATIONS
SECRETARIAT
STAFF DELIVERING Humanitarian Assistance
RESULTS ACROSS
8 PRIORITY Helped to mobilize $19.1B to assist 264.2 million
AREAS people in 64 countries and territories.
Keeping the promise of the SDGs The COVID-19 pandemic has been
will help us respond and recover one of the greatest challenges ever Justice and International Law
faster from the COVID-19 pandemic to face the United Nations, and I am As of 2020, deposited 632 multilateral treaties
and ensure humanity and the planet proud of the way we stayed open for addressing matters of worldwide interest with the
are ready to meet the SDGs for business and delivered for the people Secretary-General.
everyone everywhere. we serve.
Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Chef de Cabinet Disarmament
Supported the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons, which entered into force on 22 January
2021, following the fiftieth ratification.
Drugs, Crime, Terrorism
Contributed to COVID-19 preparedness in detention
centres in 50+ Member States, resulting in improved
prison conditions and basic services for detainees.
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
Divisions between major Powers and fragmentation security and increased the number of women heads inequality, in 2020. The new guidance note on the enabled us to adjust our business operations and
within States contributed to a challenging environ- and deputy heads of peace operations, peacekeep- protection and promotion of civic space, adopted in respond quickly to the needs of Member States.
ment for peace and security over the past year. ers and mediators as we marked the twentieth anni- September 2020, commits the entire United Nations In the months following the start of the pandemic,
However, across the globe, my special envoys and I versary of the adoption of the landmark Security to taking concrete steps to safeguard and promote United Nations country teams rolled out 121 soci-
seized a number of openings in conflict situations to Council resolution 1325 (2000). We also assisted this critical underpinning for open and inclusive oeconomic response plans covering 139 countries
advance the cause of peace. My appeal for a global 19 electoral processes in 2020 and supported 60 governance. We continued to implement the United and territories. More than $3 billion was repurposed,
ceasefire to respond to COVID-19 was endorsed by countries in developing their capacity with regard to Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, and an additional $2 billion was mobilized for imme-
180 Member States and by the Security Council and elections. Across the United Nations, we continued and preparations are under way for an interministe- diate support.
was the foundation for a second resolution calling to promote the voices and rights of young people in rial conference on the issue later in 2021.
The management reforms allowed us to adjust pol-
for a ceasefire to allow COVID-19 vaccinations. decision-making on peace and security.
Throughout the pandemic, we put gender equality icies and procedures quickly to accommodate the
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, more Human rights were already under threat before and women’s rights at the centre of our efforts, new realities on the ground. At the same time, we
than 40 United Nations peacekeeping operations COVID-19 unleashed a shadow pandemic of abuses. giving visibility to the effectiveness of women’s were able to deploy dedicated capacities to focus
and special political missions continued their vital The seven areas for action in my call to action for leadership and advocating response and recov- on key areas of concern, including health and supply
work to protect civilians and advance peace. Many human rights provided a robust framework to push ery plans that target women’s specific needs and chain management. The new annual programme
responded to the pandemic by delivering key equip- back and to mainstream a culture of human rights invest in the care economy. Our family planning budget meant that we could incorporate lessons
ment, addressing misinformation and advocating within the United Nations. Nearly 90 countries part- programmes helped to prevent over 14 million unin- from the response to the pandemic into the budget
public health measures. We intensified our efforts to nered with the United Nations to reform discrimi- tended pregnancies, nearly 40,000 maternal deaths for 2022 rather than 2024, as would previously have
implement commitments on women and peace and natory laws, including laws that entrenched gender and more than 4 million unsafe abortions in 2020, been the case.
when access to health services was particularly
Our response to the pandemic coincided with a
constrained.
record liquidity crisis, exacerbated by fluctuations in
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the value payment patterns. By exercising careful control over
of the recent reforms to our development, peace our fiscal expenditure, we succeeded in minimizing
and security, and management structures, which the damage to our programme delivery.
Our work preventing, responding Integration does not mean
and rebuilding from crises must joint action on every activity;
always be guided by the principles of rather, it entails a strategic
equality and inclusion of all. We must division of labour that leverages
strive in particular to achieve gender different entry points and feeds into
equality and disability inclusion. a common approach.
Ana Maria Menéndez, Senior Advisor on Policy Volker Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for
Strategic Coordination
Secretary-General António Guterres delivers an address entitled “State of the Planet” at Columbia University. (New York;
2 December 2020) © UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
United Nations personnel are our most important strategy to address this issue two years ago. We
asset, and we have made strenuous efforts over the also launched an important internal discussion on
past year to protect them from the impact of the racism and discrimination, and we are finalizing the
pandemic. We facilitated the successful medical first ever strategic action plan to address racism
evacuation of more than 200 personnel and part- within the United Nations.
ners, and the response time for such emergency
The past year saw the start of a process of deep
evacuations decreased by half throughout 2020 until
reflection on the future of multilateralism. Based
March 2021. Our personnel made full use of remote
on the global listening exercise we undertook to
arrangements and telecommuting to continue their
mark our seventy-fifth anniversary, and a process of
vital work without disruption.
engagement with Member States, thought leaders
Our efforts to build inclusivity and diversity into and young thinkers and public consultations, we
every aspect of our work continued to bear fruit, are now preparing a report with recommendations
with progress towards gender parity at every level. on advancing our common agenda for September
We continued to focus on improvements in peace 2021. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the United
operations, where the challenges are greatest. We Nations will thus become the launching point for a
launched a new geographical diversity strategy and reinvigorated, networked and inclusive multilater-
saw increased action across the board on disabil- alism that is fit for the future.
ity inclusion, following the launch of the first ever
Mahmoud teaches his 10-year-old son to wash his hands thoroughly. The United Nations has been scaling up prepared-
ness and response programmes across Yemen, reaching more than half a million people through house-to-house visits.
(Al-Makha district, Yemen; 9 June 2020) © OCHA
Engaging in
strategic foresight,
anticipatory action
Increasing innovation Focusing on delivery
and preparedness
and digital and performance
transformation
UN 2.0:
ACCELERATING A
“QUINTET” OF SHIFTS
Improving the use of ACROSS THE SYSTEM Reducing bureaucracy and
data, analysis and TO ENSURE THAT promoting a work culture
communications THE UNITED NATIONS IS of collaboration
FIT FOR PURPOSE
FOR THE NEXT
25 YEARS AND
BEYOND
A wall of thank-you notes to health-care workers at the Javits Center, a vaccination site in New York City. (New York;
25 February 2021) © UN Photo/Evan Schneider
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UNITED NATIONS RESPONSE TO COVID-19 DEMONSTRATES GLOBAL REACH,
SCALABILITY AND CROSS-PILLAR COORDINATION
Global reach
Extended global presence with access to remote, restricted and crisis-affected areas
1.6B
items of PPE,
175M
vaccine doses
300+
plane loads of cargo,
including biomedical and diagnostic delivered or shipped via or 148,000 cubic metres,
supplies delivered or shipped to 195 COVAX in 4 months to dispatched through 8 global air
countries and territories. 131 countries and territories. hubs to 173 countries.
Scalability
Expertise in rapidly delivering critical supplies and programmes to at-risk populations on a global scale
3.86B
vaccine doses
3B people 301M
reached with messaging on children assisted with
secured and optioned prevention and access to health distance or home-based learning
through COVAX in 4 months. services since March 2020. since March 2020.
106M
people reached with
78M
people, including
47M households
receiving additional
hygiene supplies, water children, reached with social assistance, including
and sanitation. psychosocial support. cash grants with UN system help.
Key initiatives
The United Nations coordinates multi-donor interventions
• Helped create the ACT- • Established the COVID-19 • Launched the Financing
Accelerator, with $14.1B Response and Recovery for Development in the Era
pledged to COVID-19 Fund, which mobilized $70M of COVID-19 and Beyond,
diagnostics, therapeutics to implement United Nations initiative to galvanize action
and vaccines. socioeconomic response aimed at recovering better.
and recovery plans with 206
• Helped create COVAX, • Co-hosted the 2020 Africa
unfunded priority programmes.
the vaccine arm of the Dialogue Series COVID-19 and
ACT-Accelerator, which has • Rapidly issued 23 COVID-19 silencing the guns in Africa.
delivered 175M doses to 131 policy briefs, which informed
An aeroplane delivers 90 tons of water, medical, sanitation and hygiene supplies as part of the United Nations
countries as of mid-June 2021. national response plans.
response to COVID-19. (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; 19 June 2020) © UNICEF
* Figures as of June 2021
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COVAX: ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO
COVID-19 VACCINES
70%+
Even as the total number of individuals vaccinated
60% — 70%
against COVID-19 increases, for millions around the
50% — 60%
world, the pandemic continues
40% — 50%
to pose a significant
30% — 40%
threat. In more than 50 countries, the percent of
20% — 30%
deaths from COVID-19 is on the rise. The COVAX initiative
10% — 20%
aims to accelerate the5% development
— 10% and manufacture of
COVID-19 vaccines, and to guarantee fair and equitable
0% — 5%
access for every country
0% and territory in the world, because
no one is safe until everyone is safe.
No data
Share of people who received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
Number doses allocated COVAX
As of 1 June 2021
70%+ 60% — 70% 50% — 60% 40% — 50%
30% — 40% 20% — 30% 10% — 20% 5% — 10%
0% — 5% 0% No data
Number of COVAX-allocated doses
COVAX DISTRIBUTION Lorem ipsum
78M doses shipped to 124 countries
3.866B doses secured and optioned through COVAX
2B vaccine doses available for delivery by end of 2021
CUMULATIVE CONFIRMED COVID-19 DEATHS, BY REGION
4M
3.5M
3M
2.5M Western Pacific
2M South-East Asia
1.5M
Europe
1M
Eastern Mediterranean
500,000
The Americas
100,000
0 Africa
A health professional shows a vial of the first COVAX vaccines in Ethiopia. (Eka Kotebe, Ethiopia; 21 March 2021)
January 2020 June 2021
© UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye
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United Nations Family: Our Work
The Secretariat is one part of the broader United Nations family, which includes agencies, funds and programmes,
subsidiary organs, functional and regional commissions and training institutes, among others.
Below is a sample of the work of the broader United Nations family.
The United Nations is supporting authorities in Central Java, Indonesia, to ensure women and children continue to have A staff member of the World Health Organization talks to a mother during a mass measles and polio immunization
access to essential health, nutrition and immunization services, as well as key information on COVID-19. (Central Java, campaign, that reached nearly half a million children in Mogadishu and the Benadir region (Mogadishu, Somalia;
Indonesia; 2020) © UNICEF/Fauzan Ijazah 1 September 2020) © Ismail Taxta
Climate action Food security Peace and security Children Safe water and sanitation Livelihoods
Protected, improved or restored Delivered 24B meals for 138M Maintained 12 peacekeeping Supported over 301M children, Distributed critical water, sanitation Helped 5M people in obtaining a job
344M hectares of landscapes and people in 80+ countries operations with 90,000 including 147M girls, with remote and hygiene (WASH) services and or a better livelihood in 28 crisis-
marine habitats peacekeeping personnel, including learning supplies for 106M people, including affected countries
Provided 16M children with daily
4,333 female peacekeepers 58M children
Provided access to clean, affordable school meals Aided 244M children in the Aided 1.2M vulnerable people in 13
and sustainable energy for 800,000 Provided mediation support on prevention of stunting and other Provided 18.3M people with access countries with tenure security and
households headed by women in 16 95 occasions in more than forms of malnutrition to safe drinking water the resolution of land disputes
Human rights
countries 24 different contexts
Reached over 2.2M children with Helped 24M people gain access to
Supported 8,594 victims of
Directly assisted in the conduct of disabilities across Disease prevention financial services in
contemporary forms of slavery in
Women 22 elections and provided capacity 144 countries through disability- 22 countries
23 countries Shipped 71M doses of COVID-19
development support to 53 Member inclusive development and
Supported 45 Member States in vaccines through COVAX to 125 Engaged with 30 Governments to
Partnered with 89 countries to States on electoral processes and humanitarian programmes
increasing women’s participation in countries and 1.1B items of personal build multidimensional poverty
reform discriminatory laws institutions
electoral processes, including Provided 47.2M children and protective equipment indices to improve social inclusion
through advocacy and use of Assisted 40,000 victims of torture in caregivers with community-based
temporary special measures 78 countries
Displacement mental health and psychosocial
Managed a stockpile of 500,000
Ebola vaccines available for
Assisted 81,000 stateless individuals support in humanitarian situations
Assisted 2M women per month in outbreak response
overcoming pregnancy and in acquiring/confirming their
childbirth complications identity
Aided 337,000 girls and women in Supported 82.5M people fleeing
preventing/addressing female war, famine and persecution
genital mutilation
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K E Y PRO G R A M M E S
• Support to global policymaking organs
A group of youth hold up cards representing the
Sustainable Development Goals. (Cuba; 2020) • International cooperation for development
• Regional cooperation for development
I N DI CAT I V E R E S O U R C E S
$1.6B
$493M regular assessed
$1.1B voluntary contributions
S E L EC T M A N DAT E S
• Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, General Assembly resolution 70/1
• Political declaration of the high-level midterm review on
the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action,
General Assembly resolution 74/15
• Political declaration of the high-level meeting to review
progress made in addressing the priorities of small island
developing States through the implementation of the
SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway,
General Assembly resolution 74/3
• Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated
Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius
Strategy, General Assembly resolution 74/217
• Repositioning of the United Nations development system
in the context of the quadrennial comprehensive policy
review, General Assembly resolution 72/279
• Quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational
activities for development of the United Nations system,
General Assembly resolution 75/233
Promotion • Victoria Falls Declaration on the United Nations Decade
of Action and Delivery for Sustainable Development in
Africa, ECA/RFSD/2020/16
of Sustained
Economic Growth
S E L EC T E N T I T I E S
• Department of Economic and Social Affairs
and Sustainable •
•
Development Coordination Office
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Development •
•
Office of the High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and
SIDS
Regional Commissions
• UN-Habitat
• United Nations Environment Programme
• UN-Women
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ALIGNMENT WITH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
CONTEXT KEY OBJECTIVES
One year after my call for a decade of action to The Organization fosters international cooperation
deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, our and partnerships on transformative global agendas,
efforts face monumental challenges. The COVID‑19 including the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement,
pandemic is having devastating impacts, in many the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
cases reversing years of development progress 2015–2030, the Beijing Platform for Action, the Addis
and deepening pre-existing inequalities. The Goals Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International
are now more critical than ever. More than 3.4 Conference on Financing for Development, the New
million lives have been lost to COVID-19, hunger Urban Agenda, the Programme of Action for the
has increased, and nearly 120 million people have Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–
been pushed into poverty. A multilateral response 2020, the Vienna Programme of Action and the SIDS
and international solidarity have never been more Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway.
important. Serving in 162 countries and territories, resident
coordinators lead United Nations country teams,
mobilizing United Nations development system
entities to deliver on the objectives of cooperation
frameworks agreed upon with host Governments
to advance the Sustainable Development Goals at
the national and local levels.
The global pandemic was a
stress test of the UN development
system reform; fortunately, our new We must continue to advance
arrangements have proven their evidence-based policies that support
worth, delivering stronger leadership Member States in their efforts to
and more effective UN country teams recover better and move the world
supporting authorities to respond and towards sustainable development
recover better for the SDGs. for all.
Mexico City Generation Equality mural by artist Adry del Rocio. The mural is intended to be a landmark reflecting on an equal Robert Piper, Assistant Secretary-General for Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and
world. (Mexico City, Mexico; 29 March 2021) © UN Women/Dzilam Méndez Development Coordination Social Affairs
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KEY OUTCOMES
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Meeting the 2030 Agenda in GOALS STOCKTAKING
the time of COVID-19
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, I mobilized 135+
senior government officials
a comprehensive health, humanitarian and socio-
convened in 2020...
economic response, including a series of 23 policy
briefs on the consequences of the crisis and recov-
ering better. These efforts were complemented by
concrete analysis, policy recommendations and
1,100+
registered participants, including the
proposals provided by the broader United Nations private sector and civil society...
system.
Guided by the United Nations framework on the
immediate response to COVID-19, the first of its kind,
125,000+
viewers reached, owing to its virtual
121 socioeconomic response plans were prepared,
format...
covering 139 countries and territories to support an
inclusive and green recovery. We also repurposed
Progress examined in
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$3 billion in funding and mobilized an additional A worker at a supermarket wears a PPE mask promoting the Unite campaign, distributed on the International Day for
$2.18 billion to support recovery efforts, leveraging the Elimination of Violence against Women. (Quito, Ecuador; 25 November 2020) © UN Women/Johis Alarcón
a new catalytic instrument, the COVID-19 Response countries...
and Recovery Fund, and other resources.
On the health front, the ACT Accelerator, and its Review process will be completed in
COVAX Facility, which is on track to deliver at least
2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses in 2021, supported
177
countries by 2021.
the rapid development of tests, treatments and
vaccines.
In July 2020, world leaders participated in the high-
level political forum on sustainable development,
reaching over 125,000 participants and viewers as
a result of its virtual format. A total of 47 countries
participated in the voluntary national review pro-
cess, of which 26 were first-time presenters, demon-
strating their deep commitment to the 2030 Agenda
despite the limitations posed by the pandemic.
The inaugural Sustainable Development Goals
Moment in September 2020 marked the high point
of efforts throughout the year to reinforce the posi-
tion of the 2030 Agenda framework and beyond as a
unifying and highly relevant framework for response
and recovery efforts and to guarantee a sustainable,
prosperous and inclusive future.
A nurse takes a girl’s temperature at a primary health-care centre. (Beirut, Lebanon; 3 April 2020) © UNICEF
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Scaling up financing for development solutions for financing the COVID-19 recovery and
achieving the 2030 Agenda; the outcome document
In May 2020, I partnered with Canada and Jamaica to of the 2021 forum was the most ambitious since FINANCING THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DE VELOPMENT
launch the Initiative on Financing for Development in its inception, raising the commitment level of the
the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond, promoting concrete international community against the backdrop of
financing solutions to the COVID-19 crisis to leaders the COVID-19 crisis.
and ministers of finance. To inform a recovery that
To scale up financing for development, the annual
is sustainable and inclusive, round tables included
Sustainable Development Goals business forum
eminent women economists, resulting in an ambi-
gathered over 10,000 participants who engaged on
tious menu of short-, medium- and long-term poli-
good practices and solutions for the implementation
cies tailored to the needs of various stakeholders.
of the Goals. We also launched the SDG Investor Aligning economic policies, Enhancing sustainable financing Seizing the potential of financial
Significant progress was made on the Group of 20
Platform in partnership with the Global Investors for financial and tax systems strategies and investments at innovations, new technologies
Debt Service Suspension Initiative, which delivered
Sustainable Development Alliance, providing private and financing flows with the regional and country levels and digitalization to provide
more than $5 billion in relief since it took effect.
sector investors with tools to drive new levels of 2030 Agenda equitable access to finance
The 2021 forum of the Initiative on Financing for
capital towards the Goals.
Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
further advanced action-oriented dialogue on the
We are concerned with the Let us forge a common agenda
exacerbation of pre-existing to fully recover from the COVID-19
inequalities and uneven recovery pandemic and to advance sustainable
from the global pandemic. We have development through regional
strengthened support to Member cooperation in Asia and the Pacific.
States to ensure trade, investment, Armida Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary, Economic and
and technologies contribute to an Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
inclusive, resilient and gender- and
nature-friendly recovery.
Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General, United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development
The 2021 SDG Investment fair was held virtually on 13 and 14 April, and featured presentations by Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya
and Pakistan.
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THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
AN OVERVIEW
Variations in the frequency of data collection across the Goals contributes to different cut-off dates in the charts below.
NO POVERTY ZERO HUNGER GOOD HEALTH AND REDUCED INEQUALITIES SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND RESPONSIBLE
WELL-BEING COMMUNITIES CONSUMPTION AND
Proportion of population below Prevalence of Labour share of GDP (%)
PRODUCTION
international poverty line, total (%) undernourishment Neonatal mortality rate Proportion of urban population
(% of population) (deaths per 1,000 live births) living in slums (%) Material footprint per capita, by
type of raw material (tons)
27.8%
27.8% 13.2%
13.2% 30.3
30.3
30.3 53.7%
53.7% 28%
28% 12.2
12.2
12.2
27.8% 13.2% 53.7% 28%
8.9%
8.9%
8.9% 17.5
17.5
17.5 24%
24% 8.7
8.7
51.4%
51.4%
51.4% 24% 8.7
9.5%
9.5%
9.5%
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COVID-19 has created major setbacks in the Global undernourishment has decreased The neonatal mortality rate has consistently The share of national income going to labour The number of people living in informal urban The global material footprint per capita has
reduction of poverty. since 2000. Estimates are based on projected declined. has shown a downward trend. settlements has declined since 2000. increased.
values.
QUALITY EDUCATION GENDER EQUALITY CLEAN WATER AND CLIMATE ACTION LIFE BELOW WATER LIFE ON LAND
SANITATION
Primary school completion rate Proportion of seats held by Number of countries that have Mean proportion of marine Key Forest area (thousands of km2)
women in national parliaments Proportion of population using communicated their first Biodiversity Areas (KBAs)
(% of total number of seats) safely managed sanitation Nationally Determined Contribu- covered by protected areas and,
services (%) tions (NDCs), non-Annex I Parties where available, other measures
85%
85%
85% 25.6%
25.6% 54%
54%
54% 192
192 (OECMs) (%) 44%
44%44% 41,582
41,582
25.6% 192 41,582
84%
84%
84%
28.2%
28.2% 27.7%
27.7%
27.7% 40,589
13.3%
13.3% 28.2% 40,589
40,589
13.3%
000
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Universal and equitable access to primary Major progress has been made towards 2015
More people have access to safely managed All 191 Parties to the Paris Agreement, and The proportion of key areas placed under More efforts are needed to conserve and
education is yet to be achieved. addressing female underrepresentation in sanitation services today than in 2000. Eritrea, have communicated their first NDCs. conservation designation has increased since restore forests around the world.
national parliaments. 2000.
AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN DECENT WORK AND INDUSTRY, INNOVATION PEACE, JUSTICE AND PARTNERSHIP FOR
ENERGY ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE STRONG INSTITUTIONS THE GOALS
Proportion of population with Unemployment rate (%) Research and development Proportion of countries with Net Official Development
access to electricity (%) expenditure as a proportion independent national human Assistance (ODA) (% of
of GDP (%) rights institutions in compliance Development Assistance ACCELERATING PROGRESS
with the Paris Principles (%) Committee GNI)
90%
90%
90% 6.5%
6.5%
6.5% 1.7%
1.7%
1.7% 41.6%
41.6% 0.3%
41.6% 0.3%
0.3% 0.3%
0.3% The Sustainable Development Goals are
0.3% not on track to be achieved by 2030, despite
5.8%
5.8%
5.8% progress in some areas. Furthermore, as a
78%
78%
78%
result of the COVID-19 pandemic, progress
has slowed – and in some cases, reversed
– across the 17 Goals. This makes the
1.5% 16.2%
16.2%
16.2%
1.5%
1.5% Decade of Action all the more urgent,
requiring the support of Member States
and other partners.
For a detailed progress report on the
2019
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Sustainable Development Goals, visit
www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/
The vast majority of the world’s population Global unemployment has increased due to Research and development is increasingly Less than 50% of countries have human rights The 0.7% aid/GNI target for international aid has progress-report.
now has access to electricity. the COVID-19 pandemic, erasing progress prioritized across the globe. institutions in compliance with the Paris Principles. yet to be collectively achieved. Source: OECD
made over the past two decades.
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Leaving no one behind
To enhance our support to small island develop-
ing States, whose unique vulnerabilities have been
amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, we proposed,
as requested by the General Assembly, recommen-
dations for the development and use of a multi-
dimensional vulnerability index for small island
developing States to guide programmatic support.
To support the 3.6 billion people who lack Internet
Inequality defines Latin America To harness the transformative Now more than ever before, the
access, the Commission for Social Development
adopted policies to promote digital inclusion of and the Caribbean. A transformative powers of urbanization and fulfil the most vulnerable States require our
disadvantaged groups, including women and girls, and sustainable recovery must be promise of sustainable development, special attention and support to
persons with disabilities, youth, indigenous peoples based on climate action, eradicating cities need effective planning, survive the confluence of the climate
and older persons. We also supported over 300 all forms of inequality, ending poverty management and governance. crisis and COVID-19.
million children and youth around the world in con-
and building inclusive social and Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN-Habitat Fekitamoeloa 'Utoikamanu, Former High Representative for
tinuing their education online during the pandemic.
fiscal compacts towards universal LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS
To combat food insecurity and unhealthy diets,
social protection.
in 2021 the Commission on Population and
Development adopted by consensus a resolution Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
on population, food security, nutrition and devel-
opment that will inform upcoming international
meetings and forums.
Implementation of Youth 2030: The United Nations
Strategy on Youth is gaining momentum across
the United Nations system with the finalization
of the United Nations country team scorecard to
benchmark progress. In 2020, the first reporting by
33 entities and 130 United Nations country teams
indicated that our response to youth needs during
the COVID-19 crisis had been rapid and robust.
In 2021, we launched the first Global Report on
Ageism. The report is aimed at increasing the visibil-
ity of ageist attitudes, characterized by stereotypes
or discrimination based on old age, and facilitates
comprehensive policy responses that support every
stage of life.
The pandemic is intensifying the inequalities experienced by the world’s one billion people with disabilities.
(Bangladesh; 5 April 2020) © UNDP Bangladesh/Fahad Kaizer
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Climate action Early warning, early action programmes have been
critical in reducing disaster mortality as extreme
Our climate action leadership comes at a critical weather events doubled between 2000 and 2019.
moment as global temperatures continued to rise A partnership with the World Broadcasting Unions
in 2020, contributing to wildfires, droughts, floods, on the “Media saves lives” project trained over 500
coral bleaching, locust swarms and increased fre- journalists to communicate with citizens to reduce
quency of extreme weather events, crippling com- vulnerability in the event of a disaster.
munities and impeding development. Unsustainable
consumption and production are driving climate,
biodiversity and pollution crises.
A global coalition of stakeholders committed to
net zero emissions by 2050 expanded, with many
Governments increasing interim targets to deliver
on 45 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030. I
continued to encourage countries to support the
energy transition in developing countries and ensure
that the goal of mobilizing $100 billion in new annual
pledges on climate finance is met or surpassed for
the period 2021–2025.
2020 has taught us that the global
Over the course of 2020, we provided significant
community is capable of rapid,
support to Member States enhancing nationally
determined contributions and delivering on climate transformational change. As we seek
and environment priorities, with the United Nations to recover from COVID-19, we need a
Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework common and transformative approach
to guide our action at the country level. to addressing the triple planetary
As the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity crises of climate change, nature loss
(2011–2020) concluded, the United Nations held and pollution.
its first summit on biodiversity in September 2020.
Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations
Attended by 72 Heads of State and Government, the
Environment Programme
summit helped to ensure that climate and biodiver-
sity emergencies remained at the fore of the global
sustainable development agenda.
In April 2021, the first stocktaking report on the
United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–
2030 was produced. While progress is being made
towards increasing global forest area, particularly
in Asia, Europe and Oceania, the socioeconomic
impacts of the pandemic and escalating climate
and biodiversity crises are threatening to offset
those gains.
Life Below Water advocate Şahika Ercümen dived in the Bosphorus to draw attention to the increasing pollution of the seas
during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Istanbul, Turkey; 27 June 2020) © Şebnem Coşkun - Anadolu Agency/UNDP Turkey
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Gender equality call to action for human rights. While commemora-
tions of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing
COVID-19 has exacerbated gender inequalities in SPOTLIGHT INITIATIVE
Declaration and Platform for Action were delayed,
every society, pushing more women into unemploy- the year was spent mobilizing to ensure that con-
ment, poverty, increased care burdens and spiralling crete results are secured from the global Generation Despite a global surge in gender-based violence
violence against women and girls. From the start of Equality Forum. during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spotlight
the crisis, the United Nations system has responded Initiative continued to make significant progress
by ensuring that gender equality is at the start of towards ending violence against women and girls.
response and recovery planning. One of the first In 2020:
policy briefs that I released addressed the impact
of the pandemic on women and girls. In addition,
650,000+ 84
anticipating increases in violence against women
1M
and girls, I appealed for peace in the home, a call
taken up by over 140 Member States. women and girls provided laws and
with services to address policies signed or young people joined
To drive gender-sensitive responses to the pan-
gender-based violence strengthened in in- and out-of-
demic, we increased the availability and breadth
17 countries school programmes
of gender data, capturing intersecting inequalities
The universal and catastrophic
through The World’s Women 2020. We also pub-
880,000 22% $146M
lished a dashboard of gender indicators on the
lack of representation of women’s
Women Count data hub and established the COVID- interests has gone on too long.
men and boys educated increase in
19 Global Gender Response Tracker, which assesses Excluding women in decision-making delivered to date
about positive masculinity, the number of to civil society
the extent to which 3,100 national policy measures bodies denies women meaningful respectful family relationships, convictions of
are gender-responsive. The Women Rise for All organizations
solutions to their problems. The non-violent conflict resolution perpetrators of violence,
series highlighted the effectiveness of women’s
leadership and gender-balanced decision-making,
response to COVID-19 and climate and parenting compared with 2019
reinforcing the Organization’s commitment to the cannot be left to men alone.
consistent advocacy of temporary special meas- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN-Women
ures, including quotas, in the implementation of my
Seventy-five fathers and their children joined a series of activities to promote positive models of masculinity and highlight
the role of men in combating gender-based violence and discrimination. (Kufr Nimeh, West Bank/State of Palestine; Sou Fujimoto’s “Cloud” was lit in orange as part of the Orange the World campaign to end violence against women. (Tirana,
15 August 2020) © UN Women/Sanad Abu Latifa Albania; 25 November 2020) © UN Women/Eduard Pagria
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Regional support coalitions, rolled out knowledge hubs, strengthened
data systems and advanced efficiency efforts.
Core to our development system reform was the
Regional collaborative platforms published their first
harnessing of United Nations expertise and tech-
annual regional United Nations development system
nical capabilities at the regional level to strengthen
results reports of system entities. Regional forums
support to the implementation of the Sustainable
on sustainable development provided guidance on
Development Goals. In follow-up to Economic and
priority areas for implementation of the Sustainable
Social Council resolution 2020/23, regional collabo-
Development Goals.
rative platforms were established, bringing together
regional commissions and regional offices of United The regional commissions developed the COVID-19
Nations development system entities in Africa, Asia Stimulus Tracker, an interactive platform containing
and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, over 6,600 policy responses from 194 countries,
Europe and Central Asia, and Arab States to pro- establishing a knowledge platform for good prac-
vide coordinated support to resident coordinators tices for COVID-19 recovery and implementation of
and United Nations country teams and strategic the 2030 Agenda.
direction on common priorities at the regional and
subregional levels. The platforms built issue-based
Solidarity is what we need for our We must abandon the take-make-
hopes to become real. As we advance waste model to embrace a circular
in the Decade of Action, positive economy approach as a means to
change and innovation should drive deliver on climate change and create
our collective effort. green jobs.
Rola Dashti, Executive Secretary, Economic and Social Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission
Commission for Western Asia for Europe
As part of the UN4Beirut initiative, more than 250 staff members of the Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia and the United Nations cleaned affected areas of Beirut. (Beirut, Lebanon; 8 August 2020) © ESCWA
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