Bangladesh's Pursuit of the 2030 Agenda
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1. Context
Bangladesh will cross a number of milestones during its implementation of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
• The first five years of the SDGs coincide with the last five years of
implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPOA) for the least
developed countries (LDCs) for the 2011-20 period, which aims to halve the
number of LDCs by 2020.
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Bangladesh is expected to become eligible for graduation given its progress in
gross national income (GNI) per capita and Human Assets Index (HAI).
While implementing various global agendas, Bangladesh has to be mindful
about possible implications of pursuing one agenda for the achievement of
other agendas.
On the face of it, efforts towards SDG implementation may facilitate
graduation since several objectives of the IPOA and the SDGs have
commonalities (UN-OHRLLS, 2016).
Many of the SDGs are also similar to Bangladesh's objectives for the medium
term outlined in its Seventh Five Year Plan (7FYP) for 2016-20 period.
Bangladesh's Pursuit of the 2030 Agenda
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