Build and protect a peaceful and just world
St.Ritah Women Development Association takes an integrated approach in its development work – aiming to combat poverty, to support people who are excluded and to care for our common home.
To St.Ritah Women Development Association, development means building a world in which we all live without fear of hunger and injustice, peacefully co-existing, providing for ourselves and protecting our planet. We focus on the root causes and multiple effects of poverty and on bringing the empowered voices of communities into the political process.
St.Ritah Women Development Association is pleased to have participated in the open and collaborative process out of which a new development agenda was born in September 2015 known as the Sustainable Development Goals – or SDGs – the 17 goals and 169 targets, are ambitious and challenging. But, they are also offer hope.
While the SDGs are a follow on to the “unfinished business” of the Millennium Development Goals of the last 15 years, they now apply universally to every country and go further in pledging that no person will be left behind. They put the dignity of the human person at the heart of their vision.
St.Ritah Women Development Association will work through its regional wide worldwide to bring a visible difference to the success of the SDGs and to the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people.
What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?
How we works on Development
St.Ritah Women Development Association is focused on achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals during their lifetime of 2015 to 2030. The SDGs will greatly influence the national planning of governments and the funding priorities of donors.
In caring for our common home, St.Ritah Women Development Association holds both extractive industries and national governments to account, calling for fair and responsible policies and deeds. It campaigns at high level meetings and events worldwide to bring economic and social justice to the poor.
Sustainable Development Goals
St.Ritah Women Development Association shares the vision and commitment contained in the Sustainable Development Goals.
The SDGs link social, economic and environmental development, which has long been a St.Ritah Women Development Association priority. But the challenges are great – a growing population, an increase in natural disasters, the impact of environmental degradation and climate change.
Commitment to the SDGs is strong, partly because of the broad process which created them. But St.Ritah Women Development Association will monitor their implementation and progress. On behalf of the poor and of our common home, we will hold those responsible to account. The SDGs keep alive our chance of building justice, equality, care and decency in our world.