In April, to mark the III Forum of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, held in Santiago de Chile, a four-yearly progress report was presented about the progress and regional challenges of the Agenda 2030[1].

The countries in the region began to take on board the Agenda 2030 in 2016; since then they have gone from an initial phase of reporting on its contents to one of implementation, incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their public policies. So it is that 29 of the 33 countries in the region currently have institutional coordination mechanisms; however, they lack the necessary statistical information to assess the progress made towards their goals.

The report tackles a number of different fields in which work is being done on inclusive development: poverty, gender equality, the labor market and sustainability; it also presents the conclusions and analyses of the reports submitted to the Forum at meetings during the last two years.

Finally, it flags up the slowdown in the progress being made on climate change and care for the environment, as well as in international governance cooperation. In this scenario of progress made and limitations in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development in the region, it is still necessary to unite efforts in order to achieve the SDGs by working together.

 

Read the report here