![]() ![]() Global health and Global Health Security Agenda: Under the Obama Administration, U.S.The United States is exercising global leadership that will be pivotal to achieving the 2030 Agenda in the following areas: global development investments are now better targeted to achieve sustainable development outcomes and impact to leverage critical partnerships with other donors, the private sector and nongovernmental partners and to more effectively use the power of technology and innovation to lift the most vulnerable out of poverty. The President laid out a vision that places a premium on many of the principles and objectives reflected in the 2030 Agenda, including: broad-based economic growth democratic governance game-changing innovations leveraging international partnerships and the vast array of development financing and building sustainable systems to meet basic human needs. For the first time, global development was elevated as a core pillar of American power, and recognized as a strategic, economic, and moral imperative for the United States. Bush, President Obama released the first U.S. Building on more than a half century of global leadership, including the creation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) under President George W. initiatives that will be key to achieving these goals. development policy has come and the many U.S. This pivotal juncture provides an important opportunity to take stock of how far U.S. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December. It also paves the way for a global agreement on climate change due to be concluded at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. The 2030 Agenda, as the successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), follows the adoption in July of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (Addis Agenda), a roadmap to help countries identify, attract and access diverse sources of development finance to realize the 2030 Agenda. At the same time, the 2030 Agenda builds on the MDGs, reflecting the lessons the world has learned since 2000 about what works, including the need for more transparent, accountable and inclusive approaches to development, to focus on transformative priorities that have sustainable impact, and to leverage the full array of resources for development. This is a time for optimism and celebration of the remarkable gains to which the MDGs have contributed worldwide, including: decreasing the global share of people living on less than $1.25 per day by more than two-thirds since 1990 more than halving the rate of child mortality and reaching gender parity in primary-school enrollment. In the United States, the adoption of the 2030 Agenda coincides with a growing bipartisan consensus on the importance of global development, and direct philanthropic contributions from the American people, who annually provide substantial support for emergency relief and development around the world. Under the Obama Administration, the United States has committed and helped mobilize more than $100 billion in new funding from other donors and the private sector to fight poverty in the areas of health, food security, and energy. Through the adoption of this historic framework, the United States joins with countries around the world in pledging to leave no one behind by ending extreme poverty and prioritizing policies and investments that have long-term, transformative impact and are sustainable. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda, which sets out a global development vision and priorities for the next 15 years, captures the hopes and ambitions of people around the globe for meaningful change and progress, including here in the United States. World leaders gathered in New York today to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (“2030 Agenda”). LeadershipĢ015 is a pivotal year for global development. President Obama's Commitment to Global Developmentīuilding on Over a Half Century of U.S. ![]()
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