Actions for Justice

Sustainable Development Goals

World Vision is committed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ending extreme poverty by 2030.

Sustainable Development Goals

World Vision is committed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ending extreme poverty by 2030.

The SDGs are core to our work

In 2015, world leaders signed on to the SDGs, a set of 17 goals designed to end poverty, fight inequality and stop climate change. Achieving the SDGs is central to our vision for life in all its fullness for every child.

SDG 1: No Poverty

End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

SDG 2: Zero Hunger

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.

SDG 4: Quality Education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

SDG 5: Gender Equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.

SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation.

SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities

Reduce inequality within and among countries.

SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

SDG 13: Climate Action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

SDG 14: Life Below Water

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

SDG 15: Life on Land

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss.

SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development.

The Sustainable Development Goals are ambitious, but they are not dreams. They are goals – and we can make them happen.

– Claire Rogers, CEO, World Vision Australia

From Malawi to Myanmar, we’re kicking goals

This is a snapshot of where and how our work is contributing to the achievement of the SDGs. Goals of this scope and scale require teamwork, so we partner with others – from the Australian Government through to social enterprises and software companies – to create a more sustainable world.

SDG 1: No poverty

Where: Zimbabwe

What: A health and livelihoods project that introduced new mobile health centres and trained more than 3,000 farmers to improve productivity and resilience to drought.

Neonatal mortality rate cut from 6.8 to 1.3 per 1,000 live births

(2012 – 2017)

SDG 2: Zero Hunger

Where: Burundi

What: An economic development project that improved the productivity of local high-iron beans and encouraged kitchen gardens to reduce child malnutrition and growth stunting.

Prevalence of underweight children under 5 cut by 27%

(2014 – 2017)

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Where: Papua New Guinea

What: We worked with rural and urban communities to improve the health of 24,000 people by increasing access to essential health services for mothers, newborns and children under five.

200 local people trained as community health workers

(2014 – 2017)

SDG 4: Quality Education

Where: Australia

What: Our early childhood development program in the West Kimberley and East Pilbara is increasing access to culturally-strong early learning for First Nations Australian children through community-led playgroups.

329 children took part in 466 playgroup sessions in 2018

(2009 – present)

SDG 5: Gender Equality

Where: Kenya

What: This project helped to protect 6,000 children in West Pokot County from abuse, neglect, and other forms of violence including female genital mutilation and forced and child marriage.

School enrolment rates for girls have increased

(2015 – 2018)

SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Where: Ethiopia

What: This project dug boreholes, capped natural springs and rehabilitated damaged water systems. It also raised awareness about hygiene and sanitation, resulting in a reduction in open defecation.

20,000 people gained improved access to clean water

(2016 – 2017)

SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Where: Kenya and Ethiopia

What: The Drylands Development Programme is helping more than 200,000 smallholder farmers to increase their productivity by creating an enabling environment for them to succeed.

Average savings per person in Ethiopia more than doubled in a year

(2013 – 2019)

SDG 13: Climate Action

Where: Myanmar

What: In an innovative project using impact investment, we are distributing up to 20,000 fuel-efficient cookstoves in Myanmar to help reduce carbon emissions and health problems caused by open cooking fires.

A fuel-efficient stove reduces 2.5 tonnes of carbon emissions per year

(2015 – 2019)

SDG 15: Life on Land

Where: Ethiopia

What: We’re supporting communities to regenerate or plant one million-plus trees in Soddo, Ethiopia, through Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, increasing biodiversity, strengthening livelihoods and sequestering thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Project now 100% funded by revenue from carbon credits

(2006 – 2036)

SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Where: India

What: This project is reducing child trafficking and improving child protection by training children in personal safety and building the capacity of police and other first responders to identify and respond to threats.

450 Child Protection Units established

(2015 – 2020)

SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals

Where: South Africa

What: We partnered with Lumkani, a South African-based social enterprise, to access funding and roll out an innovative fire detection device to protect people in slum communities from fires.

90% of homes protected from destruction by fire

(2014 – present)