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Sustainable Development Goals

In September 2015, world leaders from 193 nations, including President Nazarbayev, gathered at the UN Headquarters in New York to adopt the new United Nations post-2015 global development agenda. It introduced the global SDGs for 2016-2030 that consists of 17 Goals and 169 Targets.

Today, the SDGs are considered when crafting legislation and policy and government ministries, agencies, administrative oblasts, civil society and private sector partners are directed to consider promoting and implementing the SDG agenda in Kazakhstan.

In November 2020 Kazakhstan welcomed Michaela Friberg-Storey of Sweden to the post of UN Resident Coordinator in Kazakhstan.

A “UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework” is the blueprint that guides SDG and UN objectives and values into alignment with Kazakhstan’s national strategies and goals, like the Kazakhstan Strategy 2050, Nurly Zhol, DigitalKazakhstan, and attraction of foreign investments.

In November 2016, a Mainstreaming Acceleration and Policy Support (MAPS) mission of UN experts took place, the first such mission in the region, which also resulted in the adoption of the Parliamentary Statement on SDGs by Kazakhstan’s Senate.