Pakistan
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Proposed Targets on Co-Chairs Focus Areas by the delegation of
Pakistan during the 10th session of the Open Working Group on
Sustainable Development Goals
Focus area 1. Poverty eradication
Target 1: Eliminate by 2030, the extreme poverty (people living on US $
1.25 a day);
Target 2: Reduce to half by 2030, the intensity of poverty based on
nationally determined indices
Target 3: Establish by 2030 sustained social protection floor against
relative poverty
Focus area 2. Sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition
Targets 1: Doubling by 2030, in each country food production and global
food production to ensure universal access to food.
Target: 2 : By 2030, eliminating chronically malnourished people.
Target 3: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems at the
national levels with high yields and reducing the intensity of
water, nutrients, and energy use by at least 25%.
Target 4: By 2030, halt forest and wetland conversion to agriculture.
Target 5: By 2030, ensure farming systems are resilient to climate change
and disasters.
Target 6: By 2030, ensure universal access in rural areas to basic
resources and infrastructure services (land, water, sanitation,
modern energy, transport, mobile and broadband
communication, agricultural inputs, and advisory services).
Focus area 3. Health and population dynamics
Target 1: By 2030, reducing by half the human and economic losses from
water related diseases and disasters.
Target 2: By 2030, introducing and implementing national water quality
standards.
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Target 3: By 2030, reducing by half the cost of acquisition of
international patents by the developing countries on essential
medicines and pandemics.
Target 4: By 2030, ensure universal access to basic health including
maternal health.
Focus area 4. Education
Target 1: By 2030, provide and ensure completion of universal primary
education with ability to read, write and count well enough to
meet minimum learning standards;
Target 2: By 2030, Ensure every child, regardless of circumstance, has
access to lower secondary education.
Target 3: By 2030, increase 50% the number of young and adult women
and men with the skills, including technical and vocational,
needed for productive job market and work.
Focus area 5. Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Target 1: By 2030, ensure prevention of and elimination of all forms of
violence against girls and women.
Target: By 2030, end child marriage.
Target 3: By 2030 ensure equal right of women to own and inherit
property, sign a contract, register a business, open a bank
account and secure credit.
Target 4: Eliminate discrimination against women in political, economic,
and public life.
Focus area 6. Water and sanitation
Target 1: By 2030, achieve universal access to safe drinking water,
sanitation and hygiene.
Target 2: By 2030, improve by 50% the sustainable use and increasing
water productivity for economic growth.
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Target 3: By 2030, reduce wastewater by more than half and increase by
more than half its reuse.
Target 4: By 2030, increase resilience of countries, people and ecosystem
to water related disasters, impacts of climate change.
Target 5: By 2030, double the count of rainwater harvesting in all
countries.
Focus Area 7. Energy
Target 1: By 2030, double the share of renewable energy global energy
mix with emphasis on developed countries.
Target 2: By 2030, ensure universal access to modern energy services in
the developing countries.
Target 3: By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy
efficiency in both developed and developing countries.
Focus area 8. Economic growth
Target 1: Moving by 2030, at least 10 of countries from the World
Bank’s low, lower middle and middle-income category to a
higher category.
Target 2: By 2030, reduce by half, the debt stock of heavily indebted
countries with more than 50% of debt-to-GDP ratio.
Target 3: By 2030, double the share of manufacturing in GDP.
Target 4: By 2030, double the share of value addition and local content in
manufacturing sector.
Target 5: By 2030, account natural capital as part of GDP calculation.
Focus area 9. Industrialization
Target 1: By 2030, doubling the share of industrial sector in the GDP of
all developing countries.
Target 2: By 2030, enhance 100% resource efficiency towards structural
change and industrial development.
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Target 3: By 2030, reduce by x% the rate of increase and intensity of
carbon emissions from the industrial sector.
Target 4: By 2030, double the domestic processing of raw material and
value addition in exports from developing countries.
Target 5: By 2030, significantly reduce dependence on export of a few
commodities in the developing countries.
Focus Area 10: Infrastructure
Target 1: By 2030, double the Internet penetration in all countries
particularly the developing world.
Target 2: By 2030, climate and disaster proof all major road and
associated infrastructure.
Target 3: By 2030, improve access of people to efficient transportation
system within all major cities of the world and reduce by 50%
reliance on personal transport.
Focus area 11: Employment and Decent Work for All
Target 1: By 2020, evolve education to work transition policies to
increase employment rates of young women and men including
from vulnerable category.
Target 2: By 2030, double the increase in employment to population ratio
by sex and disability.
Target 3: By 2030, increase by 10% the growth rate of GDP per person
employed particularly through technological usage and reskilling.
Target 4: By 2030, universalize collective bargaining and freedom of
association coverage.
Focus Area 12: Promoting Equality
Target 1: By 2030, half the gap between the income ratios of top 10%
and bottom 40% of a country.
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Target 2: By 2025, affirmative actions in law and policies to reduce
ethnic, religious, gender and disability based discrimination.
Target 3: By 2030, increase migration flows by 10% particularly of
skilled labour from lower income countries to higher income
countries.
Target 4: Reforming by 2020, the international rules on trade, business
accounting and intellectual property to ensure consistency with
the achievement of SDGs.
Focus Area 13: Sustainable Cities and Human Settlement
Target 1: By 2030, halve the population living in slums around major
cities.
Target 2: By 2030, reduce by halve the rate of growth of use of personal
vehicle and replace it with affordable and safe public transport.
Target 3: By 2030, ensuring all major cities to become disability friendly
and offer economic opportunities to them.
Target 4: By 2030, increase by 20% the number of cities adopting and
implementing policies and plans towards resilience and
adaptation to climate change.
Focus Area 15: Climate
Target 1: By 2020, global carbon emissions have peaked and by 2030,
the atmospheric contents of carbon have stabilized to an
acceptable level.
Target 2: By 2020, the goal for meeting mobilization of US $ 100 Billion
is met.
Target 3: By 2030, carbon intensity from global energy consumption is
reduced by 20%.
Target 4: By 2030, ensuring 50% of international climate finance
resources are allocated to adaptation actions.
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Focus Area 17: Ecosystem and Bio-diversity
Target 1: By 2030, reduce to zero the annual rate of loss of forests.
Target 2: By 2020, establish a national standard for natural capital
accounting and by 2030 establish a harmonized and global
accounting of natural capital
Target 3: By 2020, integrating sustainable resource use into national
development models and accountability mechanisms for the
private sector.
Focus Area 19: Peaceful and non-violent Societies, rule of law and
capable institutions
Target 1: By 2030, all citizens must have equal access to justice.
Target 2: By 2020, all countries should create provision of effective public
prosecution system to aid vulnerable and poor peoples access to
justice.
Target 3: By 2030, law and regulations at the national level are enacted to
ensure local level governance.
Target 4: By 2030, reduce by 100% average duration of decisions on
criminal and civil cases.
Target 5: by 2020, all stakeholders under a given SDG have access to
official data, reports and on progress with ability to comment and
challenge.
Target 6: By 2020, reduce by 50% public perception and cases of corruption
in public procurement (baseline 2015).
Target 7: By 2020, all citizens have proper identity that would enable them
to access microfinance or credit with gender disaggregation.
Proposed Targets on Co-Chairs Focus Areas by the delegation of
Pakistan during the 10th session of the Open Working Group on
Sustainable Development Goals
Focus area 1. Poverty eradication
Target 1: Eliminate by 2030, the extreme poverty (people living on US $
1.25 a day);
Target 2: Reduce to half by 2030, the intensity of poverty based on
nationally determined indices
Target 3: Establish by 2030 sustained social protection floor against
relative poverty
Focus area 2. Sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition
Targets 1: Doubling by 2030, in each country food production and global
food production to ensure universal access to food.
Target: 2 : By 2030, eliminating chronically malnourished people.
Target 3: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems at the
national levels with high yields and reducing the intensity of
water, nutrients, and energy use by at least 25%.
Target 4: By 2030, halt forest and wetland conversion to agriculture.
Target 5: By 2030, ensure farming systems are resilient to climate change
and disasters.
Target 6: By 2030, ensure universal access in rural areas to basic
resources and infrastructure services (land, water, sanitation,
modern energy, transport, mobile and broadband
communication, agricultural inputs, and advisory services).
Focus area 3. Health and population dynamics
Target 1: By 2030, reducing by half the human and economic losses from
water related diseases and disasters.
Target 2: By 2030, introducing and implementing national water quality
standards.
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Target 3: By 2030, reducing by half the cost of acquisition of
international patents by the developing countries on essential
medicines and pandemics.
Target 4: By 2030, ensure universal access to basic health including
maternal health.
Focus area 4. Education
Target 1: By 2030, provide and ensure completion of universal primary
education with ability to read, write and count well enough to
meet minimum learning standards;
Target 2: By 2030, Ensure every child, regardless of circumstance, has
access to lower secondary education.
Target 3: By 2030, increase 50% the number of young and adult women
and men with the skills, including technical and vocational,
needed for productive job market and work.
Focus area 5. Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Target 1: By 2030, ensure prevention of and elimination of all forms of
violence against girls and women.
Target: By 2030, end child marriage.
Target 3: By 2030 ensure equal right of women to own and inherit
property, sign a contract, register a business, open a bank
account and secure credit.
Target 4: Eliminate discrimination against women in political, economic,
and public life.
Focus area 6. Water and sanitation
Target 1: By 2030, achieve universal access to safe drinking water,
sanitation and hygiene.
Target 2: By 2030, improve by 50% the sustainable use and increasing
water productivity for economic growth.
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Target 3: By 2030, reduce wastewater by more than half and increase by
more than half its reuse.
Target 4: By 2030, increase resilience of countries, people and ecosystem
to water related disasters, impacts of climate change.
Target 5: By 2030, double the count of rainwater harvesting in all
countries.
Focus Area 7. Energy
Target 1: By 2030, double the share of renewable energy global energy
mix with emphasis on developed countries.
Target 2: By 2030, ensure universal access to modern energy services in
the developing countries.
Target 3: By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy
efficiency in both developed and developing countries.
Focus area 8. Economic growth
Target 1: Moving by 2030, at least 10 of countries from the World
Bank’s low, lower middle and middle-income category to a
higher category.
Target 2: By 2030, reduce by half, the debt stock of heavily indebted
countries with more than 50% of debt-to-GDP ratio.
Target 3: By 2030, double the share of manufacturing in GDP.
Target 4: By 2030, double the share of value addition and local content in
manufacturing sector.
Target 5: By 2030, account natural capital as part of GDP calculation.
Focus area 9. Industrialization
Target 1: By 2030, doubling the share of industrial sector in the GDP of
all developing countries.
Target 2: By 2030, enhance 100% resource efficiency towards structural
change and industrial development.
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Target 3: By 2030, reduce by x% the rate of increase and intensity of
carbon emissions from the industrial sector.
Target 4: By 2030, double the domestic processing of raw material and
value addition in exports from developing countries.
Target 5: By 2030, significantly reduce dependence on export of a few
commodities in the developing countries.
Focus Area 10: Infrastructure
Target 1: By 2030, double the Internet penetration in all countries
particularly the developing world.
Target 2: By 2030, climate and disaster proof all major road and
associated infrastructure.
Target 3: By 2030, improve access of people to efficient transportation
system within all major cities of the world and reduce by 50%
reliance on personal transport.
Focus area 11: Employment and Decent Work for All
Target 1: By 2020, evolve education to work transition policies to
increase employment rates of young women and men including
from vulnerable category.
Target 2: By 2030, double the increase in employment to population ratio
by sex and disability.
Target 3: By 2030, increase by 10% the growth rate of GDP per person
employed particularly through technological usage and reskilling.
Target 4: By 2030, universalize collective bargaining and freedom of
association coverage.
Focus Area 12: Promoting Equality
Target 1: By 2030, half the gap between the income ratios of top 10%
and bottom 40% of a country.
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Target 2: By 2025, affirmative actions in law and policies to reduce
ethnic, religious, gender and disability based discrimination.
Target 3: By 2030, increase migration flows by 10% particularly of
skilled labour from lower income countries to higher income
countries.
Target 4: Reforming by 2020, the international rules on trade, business
accounting and intellectual property to ensure consistency with
the achievement of SDGs.
Focus Area 13: Sustainable Cities and Human Settlement
Target 1: By 2030, halve the population living in slums around major
cities.
Target 2: By 2030, reduce by halve the rate of growth of use of personal
vehicle and replace it with affordable and safe public transport.
Target 3: By 2030, ensuring all major cities to become disability friendly
and offer economic opportunities to them.
Target 4: By 2030, increase by 20% the number of cities adopting and
implementing policies and plans towards resilience and
adaptation to climate change.
Focus Area 15: Climate
Target 1: By 2020, global carbon emissions have peaked and by 2030,
the atmospheric contents of carbon have stabilized to an
acceptable level.
Target 2: By 2020, the goal for meeting mobilization of US $ 100 Billion
is met.
Target 3: By 2030, carbon intensity from global energy consumption is
reduced by 20%.
Target 4: By 2030, ensuring 50% of international climate finance
resources are allocated to adaptation actions.
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Focus Area 17: Ecosystem and Bio-diversity
Target 1: By 2030, reduce to zero the annual rate of loss of forests.
Target 2: By 2020, establish a national standard for natural capital
accounting and by 2030 establish a harmonized and global
accounting of natural capital
Target 3: By 2020, integrating sustainable resource use into national
development models and accountability mechanisms for the
private sector.
Focus Area 19: Peaceful and non-violent Societies, rule of law and
capable institutions
Target 1: By 2030, all citizens must have equal access to justice.
Target 2: By 2020, all countries should create provision of effective public
prosecution system to aid vulnerable and poor peoples access to
justice.
Target 3: By 2030, law and regulations at the national level are enacted to
ensure local level governance.
Target 4: By 2030, reduce by 100% average duration of decisions on
criminal and civil cases.
Target 5: by 2020, all stakeholders under a given SDG have access to
official data, reports and on progress with ability to comment and
challenge.
Target 6: By 2020, reduce by 50% public perception and cases of corruption
in public procurement (baseline 2015).
Target 7: By 2020, all citizens have proper identity that would enable them
to access microfinance or credit with gender disaggregation.
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