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United Nations Volunteers inputs for 2020 HLPF – March 2020
Key policies and measures to ensure “accelerated action and transformative pathways” for realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development
Never has the mandate of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme been closer to the priorities of a global development framework than with the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world is realizing what UNV has always been advocating for: that sustainable development is only possible when development gains ‘leave no one behind’.
For the Decade of Action, UNV has pledged to lead in including everyone, everywhere to take action, through volunteering, for the SDGs.
UNV is a common service of the United Nations system which mobilizes UN Volunteers and promotes volunteerism worldwide for the achievement of the SDGs. Volunteerism enables people to participate in their own development, strengthening social cohesion and trust by promoting individual and collective action, leading to sustainable development for people by people.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development explicitly recognises volunteer groups as stakeholders to achieve the 17 SDGs.
