Goal 16 - Armenia's Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

Armenia


Goal 16 Promotes peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development and justice for all.

Armenia is known to be very productive in their agricultural aspect within the country. Most of the population work in agriculture, very self-sufficient growing potatoes, melons, fruits, and legumes. Although they do raise cattle, they are low on pork production.
November 2010 the RA Government adopted the Republic of Armenia Strategy for Rural and Agricultural Development. This allowed the population to work efficiently with their resources and find partnerships to develop organic farming and food security. One of the major goals was to conserve as much energy as they could, but still have employment for all citizens. In 2010, they also increased in imported goods that helped with the low income communities. The foreign trade increased by 14% total than the previous year, which is very good for their economy, as well as increase rate of 10.7% for food imports. With these rates they were able to sustain jobs and increase wages.

As for health equity and health resources, Armenia is still having issues in the lower income communities and report low on health visits. Hospital visits still remain very high for all the patients, and they are trying to fix that issue since it has been noted that oncology patients are the highest.

Armenia still has a plan to develop and follow many democratic principles in their country that can benefit their population. They want to strengthen the "Green Economy" idea so they can be have a better landscape planning for their resources and keep promoting equality versus monopolies.



Photo from
 https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/armenia.htm#Culture







Resources:

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/#

UN Armenia Office. (2012) Armenia Report, Retrieved from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/800Armenia_Report_Final.pdf

Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutes

Sustainable development Goal 16 focuses on promoting justice for all, creating safety for all citizens in their country with strong help public services to ensure that everyone can live among themselves in peace. Removing dangers and violence from everyday living among all children regardless their background and securing stable communities. 

One of the main targets for this goal is worldwide birth registrations to implement human rights and protect growing communities. That is due to the fact that only 73% of children under 5 year of age are being registered globally. This way they can provide better healthcare and education for all children and protect their rights as citizens. The goal is to have legal indent in all countries by 2030.

Why is this sustainable goal important?

About 4 million people are stateless and have no support from strong laws or policies. This affects their wellbeing by living in an unstable environment and reduces chances of their families getting quality healthcare and education if they are not supported by their government. The universal declaration of Human Rights establishes that all, "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty."

Ghana

Ghana has created a "leave no one behind" plan to expand a social protection system where mothers and children have support in rural populations or hard to reach areas with unemployment and less education. The government is creating a better stragedy with the media to raise awareness in schools and get the youth involved in better activities while growing up. They also increased 15% since 2015 in helping pregnant women's healthcare with free maternal care and immunizations for children. Although Ghana still faces a lot of poverty issues, they are still developing way to promote a safer and cleaner environment for all families and hope to have better jobs since 2017.

To find more information about Ghana please visit

 https://www.gh.undp.org/content/ghana/en/home/countryinfo.html

See how you can support them with their goals. 

Ghana Flag  photo from: National Human Development

Resources

United Nations. Ghana. (2019) Retrieved from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/memberstates/ghana

United Nations. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (2019) Retrieved from 

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html

United Nations. Sustainable Development Goals. (2019) Retrieved from https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/peace-justice/