SDG National Commitments Form: Submission #62

Title of commitment: National Commitment for Sustainable Development
Name of submitting Member State or Government: Mongolia
Please indicate whether your commitment is intended to address SDG Progress at a national, regional or global level: National
Please outline briefly the commitment(s) made in the areas outlined above :
Mongolia identified 12 accelerators, which consist of 8 transitions, 3 means of implementation, and one crosscutting accelerator, based on the medium, and long-term policy alignment analysis and findings from the Voluntary National Review.
Transitions:
- Increase the quality and access to educational services, and prepare a workforce that meets market demand
- Increase the quality, equity, and accessibility of health care and services
- Achieve a complete digital transition through innovation, science, and technology
- Ensure energy stability and reliability by creating basic conditions for the development of renewable energy
- Mitigate and adapt to the negative effects of climate change: Ensure environmental sustainability and strengthen resilience to hazards and natural disasters
- Enhance the food supply and security
- Diversify the economy through the development of value-added and sustainable production (agriculture, manufacturing, tourism, creative cultural production and transport)
- Reduce unemployment and poverty by increasing decent work and inclusive jobs
Cross-cutting:
- Ensure gender equality
Means of implementation:
- Foster effective governance and policy coherence
- Support regional and local development
- Boost financing aimed at accelerating the implementation of the SDGs

Does the commitment include a new national benchmark for reducing poverty and inequality by 2027? If yes, please indicate the benchmark below: :
Regarding "Vision-2050", the country's long-term development policy, Mongolia aims to reduce the national poverty rate to 20% and 15% by 2025 and 2030 respectively. 

Please explain how national planning and institutional frameworks will be strengthened to support progress of the commitment: :
Mongolia will be accelerating SDG implementation through the existing institutional framework and will take the required actions to strengthen the existing framework. 
Existing institutional framework for the SDGs:
At the Parliament level, the Sub-Committee on the SDGs is responsible for the Intensification of SDG planning, financing and implementation, and strengthening of the monitoring and evaluation system. Under this sub-committee, the Multistakeholder Council on SDGs works to strengthen multilateral cooperation, to disseminate and inform the public about the SDGs. 
At the Government level, the Ministry of Economy and Development is responsible for ensuring cross-sectoral coordination and localizing the SDGs through integrated development policy and planning. 
The National Statistics Office is responsible for developing methodologies for the national SDG targets and indicators and coordinating data collection. 
Actions to strengthen the institutional arrangements for the SDGs:
- Strengthen the integrated development policy and planning. 
- Activate and stabilize the activities of the multi-stakeholder council to ensure all public participation in sustainable development.
- The “Leave no one behind” principle must be adhered to at all levels of society. 
- Strengthen the SDG monitoring and evaluation system.

Which of the following, if any do your strengthened institutional frameworks seek to address?: Making SDG achievement a more central focus in national planning and oversight mechanisms, Strengthening the capacities of local and subnational governments to advance the SDGs , Strengthening national statistical systems
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Please provide the full name, title and email address of contact person::
Ms. Enkhmunkh Otgontogtokh, Senior Specialist of the Integrated Policy and Planning Department, enkhmunkh.o@med.gov.mn

Please provide the official email address of your country’s Permanent Mission in New York, for verification purposes.: newyork@mfa.gov.mn
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