Biennial Report 2017-2018

“Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)” and “Human Security”
- Realizing the World where No One is Left Behind

The Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP) is an NGO, founded in 1992, with the motto, “Humankind is a family living in one global home, the Earth.” Since 1994, WFWP volunteers have been commissioned to serve in countries throughout the world. WFWP is committed to the achievement of freedom from poverty, as well as to implementing development cooperation activities based on local needs.

Since the year 2000, WFWP as a UN NGO, had sought to contribute through its activities to the attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), which are universal goals of the international community in the 21st century. Currently, WFWP has tackled the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) which were adopted in September 2015.

The philosophy of the SDGs is “No one will be left behind”. This is also common to the idea of “Human Security” proposed by Japan in 2000. As noted in General Assembly resolution 66/290, “human security is an approach to assist Member States in identifying and addressing widespread and cross-cutting challenges to the survival, livelihood and dignity of their people.” It calls for “people-centered, comprehensive, context- specific and prevention-oriented responses that strengthen the protection and empowerment of all people.”

According to the “Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018”, the percentage of global workers living on less than $1.90 per person per day has increased from 26.9% in 2000 to 9.2% in 2017 over the past 20 years. It dropped significantly. However, the economic damage caused by the disaster in 2017 is expected to exceed $300 billion. This is the biggest damage in recent years, mainly due to three large hurricanes that hit the United States and several Caribbean countries. In this way, even if human power can somehow overcome poverty, the current world is where poverty is newly created and left behind by climate change and natural disasters that Many people are left behind not only in natural disasters but also in fields such as healthcare, education, gender, disabilities, regional disparities, and the environment.

SDGs pay attention to each and every human as well as human security. People in developing countries, those in developed countries, rich people, and vulnerable people, under world peace and partnership, value the natural environment and create stable societies where people can live human lives, and aim to realize the affluent world where we can create economic growth. “Economy”, “Society”, “Environment”, “Peace” and “Partnership” can be said to be keywords for the sustainable world.

This booklet is a summary of some of the activities which overseas volunteers from WFWP Japan and members of WFWP International had carried out for attainment of SDGs. In order to have you understand our efforts for contribution to achieve SDGs, we report activities according to the goals of SDGs in this booklet.

WFWP would appreciate your understanding and guidance as to our efforts.