1. Sustainable Development Goals
Ireland’s National Implementation Plan to 2020

2. Overview
Ireland played a key role in facilitating the adoption of the 17 global goals by all 193 member States of the United Nations in 2015.
Our ambition is to now play a leading role in their implementation.

3. Cross-governmental approach
National Implementation Plan
Launched in April 2018
Cross-governmental approach
Identifies opportunities for policy coherence

5. Tracking Progress: Voluntary National Review
Presented in July 2018 at the annual UN High Level Political Forum in New York
The report considers Ireland's performance against each of the 17 SDGs

6. Irish Aid Our nine partner countries

7. Irish Aid – SDG priorities
“There are 7.6 billion people in the world; 617 million young people who do not have basic mathematical, reading and writing skills; 57 million primary school aged children are not able to go to school.” 
Minister for International Development
Ciarán Cannon

8. Irish Aid and the SDGs

9. A priority for Ireland

10. Orla O’Hanrahan Ambassador of Ireland
Thank you
Orla O’Hanrahan
Ambassador of Ireland