Australia Sustainable Development Report: Ensuring sustainable and resilient commitment for SRHR

Family Planning NSW’s annual Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) report has identified eight overarching sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) strategies for Australia and the Pacific to support achievement of the SDGs. Our 2021 report provides a situational analysis of Goals 3, 8, 10, 13, 16 and 17 in Australia and the Pacific and highlights the centrality of sexual and reproductive health and rights to the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

The report aligns each strategy with relevant SDGs and has a particular focus on our organisational content and practice areas of expertise: contraception, cervical cancer and comprehensive sexuality education. Each of these strategies includes recommendations that illustrate how to support the implementation of the SDGs.

The overarching ambition of this report is to highlight gaps and opportunities for SRHR interventions that would assist the implementation of the SDGs. This report also aims to influence domestic policy and funding that promotes awareness of how SRHR interventions can achieve the SDGs and provides a mechanism for civil society to provide structured feedback to government to ensure no-one is left behind in the implementation of the SDGs  . The eight strategies to address SRHR and support achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are listed below.

1. Ensuring sustainable and resilient commitment for SRHR

. Eliminate cervical cancer

3. Invest in comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)

4. Promote gender equality and end violence against women

5. Promote access to sexual and reproductive health services for vulnerable groups

6. Improve access to abortion care

7. Improve sexual and reproductive health data collection

8. Contribute to the evidence on and address the links between climate change and SRHR

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