Contributors


In response to General Assembly resolution 70/1 requesting the Secretary-General to prepare annual progress reports on the Sustainable Development Goals (para. 83), the present report was prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, with input from international and regional organizations, and offices, specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, listed below. Several national statisticians, experts from civil society and academia also contributed to the report.


  • Alliance of Small Island States
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  • Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea
  • Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
  • Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
  • Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
  • Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
  • Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
  • International Energy Agency
  • International Labour Organization (ILO)
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • International Renewable Energy Agency
  • International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
  • International Trade Centre (ITC)
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature
  • Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
  • Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
  • Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, Department of Peace Operations
  • Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
  • Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth
  • Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children
  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21)
  • Peacebuilding Support Office, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
  • Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • Sustainable Energy for All
  • United Nations Capital Development Fund
  • United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
  • United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
  • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • United Nations Mine Action Service
  • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  • UN-Energy
  • UN-Ocean
  • UN-Water
  • World Bank Group
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  • World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
  • World Trade Organization (WTO)