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The Atlas of Sustainable Development in Palestine, a joint report between the government of Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh and the United Nations team in Palestine. The report aims to present a plan, vision and a complete analysis of sustainable development in the Palestinian territories for the end of 2019, and the announcement of 2020 to be start of the ten-year plan 2020-2030 to accelerate sustainable development, while presenting the most prominent challenges and priorities to support the Palestinian people.

Mahmoud Ataya, Director General and Rapporteur of the National Team for Sustainable Development at the Cabinet Office, explained the reason for issuing the report, saying that five years after the launch of the sustainable development plan, an opportunity was obtained to find out where we stand from development goals and indicators, our national priorities and trends of progress. Thus, an opportunity to understand and determine future options based on reality and the development of the development process in Palestine, taking into account the differences in terms of regions, ages, population density, groups, and others.

He pointed out that the Atlas of Development has identified priorities for intervention and investment in order to improve reality, as there are gaps in different regions and between different groups that the Atlas revealed, and thus it gave decision-makers an opportunity to redistribute investment and intervene to bridge these gaps and bring about development and social justice.

He said that the development atlas is the first of its kind in terms of sustainable development and its agendas, and there are other atlases of poverty, for example, issued by the Palestinian Statistics Authority, but as priorities for sustainable development, this is the first.

The Atlas focuses on how to make decisions, develop policies and develop policies in different sectors, based on what this Atlas reveals about these sectors and the gaps in them.

The development atlas presents national strategies for development goals, goals, stages, and the details associated with them, by looking at development numbers and indicators for recent years. Among the most prominent development goals presented by the report are: the eradication of poverty and hunger, raising the standard of living, education, equality, peace, justice and institutions, access to safe and clean water and energy sources, economic independence and industrial development, and it also examines issues of sustainability, rationalization of consumption and contribution to environmental change. The report also presents the most important Palestinian partnerships and relations in order to achieve sustainable development.

The development Atlas presents a set of goals within each supreme national goal, and provides the most important data and indicators that should be researched in order to reach these goals:

Zero Poverty:

Reducing the level of poverty by at least half for all groups by 2030, and the report presents the levels of the poverty line over the past two decades.

 

Zero Hunger:

End hunger, secure food safety, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. It presents the distribution of food security ratios by gender and geographical distribution. It also addresses malnutrition, stunting, obesity and anaemia. The report presents plans to double the productivity of small food establishments and enterprises.

 

Securing good health and safety:

Reducing maternal and child mortality and reproductive care, raising the level of health care and coverage, and securing non-communicable diseases, as well as presenting the most important indicators of health capabilities, infrastructure and health care staff.

 

Quality of education:

Ensuring comprehensive and equitable education opportunities for all, free primary and secondary education, and eliminating school dropout rates, with a focus on Area C, East Jerusalem and Gaza. The report also presents plans to build and develop the school infrastructure based on the existing capabilities and facilities. It presents the goals of raising the level of higher and vocational education, increasing enrolment rates in vocational education, and developing qualified academic staff.

 

Social equality:

Achieving gender equality, supporting women, ending all types of violence against them, confronting all harmful practices in society, encouraging entrepreneurship among women and eliminating the wage difference based on gender.

 

Water and wastewater sector development:

Ensure the availability of safe water sources and sustainable management of water resources and sanitation for all. Providing safe drinking water sources for all areas, focusing on Gaza, and reducing infant deaths due to water-related diseases there. And setting the goal of reaching clean sanitation for all groups and ages in different regions.

 

Affordable and clean energy sources:

Securing modern, reasonable and sustainable energy sources and moving towards renewable energy, by considering global and local expectations towards renewable energy sources to meet energy requirements by 2030.

 

Sustainable economic growth:

Seeking to develop the local economy and GDP per capita, focusing on the Gaza Strip, and raising the level of general economic growth for various sectors. Eliminate unemployment and discrimination in jobs and salaries, end child labor, and abide by labor and labor laws.

 

 

Developing local industry and adopting creativity:

Establish an infrastructure and base for the development of industries, including small and medium-sized sectors that raise the national product and increase job opportunities. And increase scientific research and spending on research and development.

 

Reducing inequality:

Achieving growth in income equally among governorates of the West Bank, and reducing inequality in household spending between cities.

 

The report also presents the most important global goals in which Palestine participates, such as preserving life, water wealth, climate change, and the values ​​of social and institutional justice. It presents the most important local and international partnerships and collaborations for achieving national goals and objectives.