To HLPF 2019.. How can we achieve a global commitment to achieve the sustainable development goals?

We won't leave you behind

By- Amro Selim:

Many conferences, seminars, debates and routine reports from every place are all taken to " Leaving no one behind," especially low-income countries that call for the majority of votes left behind in the wake of chaos, extremism and economic collapse ... but an important question remains how can we Especially since there is a big gap between the paper reports presented to the United Nations organizations and what is said in the conferences and what is happening on the ground?

While some give a fictional image and a rosy look for unrealistic achievements that do not reflect the reality of the situation on the ground, we find low-income countries whose citizens continue to suffer in order to obtain their basic needs. Unemployment, poverty and illiteracy are spread and investment is evaporated, creating an environment unsuitable for achieving sustainable development goals.

To reduce the gap between what is being said and what he does, I think he would prefer to discuss the high-level political forum of the United Nations to establish mandatory international rules and regulations that oblige all those committed to achieving the goals of sustainable development to take effective action on the ground. These goals and make the citizens of high-income countries talking about the goals do not know some citizens of low-income countries and something is showing the gap is serious.

Therefore, international rules are imposed on everyone to verify the extent of implementation of the sustainable development goals and to measure the reports of achievement and actual performance with the formation of follow-up committees and coordination between the political forum and a group of experts, specialists and independent organizations, as well as attention to media campaigns aimed at raising public awareness of the importance of achieving SDGs.

Let us reiterate that our slogan "we will not leave anyone behind" will only be achieved by realistic follow-up to what is achieved on the ground and the actual measurement of performance. I think it is time to say that everyone should work and those who do not want will probably cause to drop everyone around them as well. We all Affect and influence  by each other.