The Long View: Decade Events 2022
Decade Events in 2022. Originally published on January 10, 2022
The Long View: Decade Events Occurring in 2022
Nearly, but not all, decade events originate with the United Nations and its member organizations. They address issues that are not specific to an individual nation but impact us all. Often these will be renewed as a second, third, or fourth-decade focus. To understand the direction, you need to be familiar with the goals. The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs in UN speak, seek to guide measurable improvement in the following 17 areas by 2030:
When the UN or its partners focus on a specific theme for a decade, this creates opportunities for organizations interested in that area. Your public relations, marketing, partnership, and business development objectives, outreach, philanthropic, product and service development, research and development, relocation and expansion plans, and even your hiring and staffing strategies can benefit significantly through increased awareness and resources by folding in and supporting the goals of these decades. Think of them as roadmaps to opportunity, the signposts of focus, and the gateway to a greater good.
In 2022, LEEP Calendar has identified the following 13 international decades:
1) 3rd International Decade for Industrial Development in Africa (2016 - 2025)
Champion: United Nations
As a developing continent, Africa is paving the way toward its future by focusing on inclusive and sustainable industrial development. Focus includes preserving its natural and cultural resources while fostering competition. Areas of focus include strengthening capacity in infrastructure, innovation, and technology. Of equal importance is facilitating industrial financing, industrial knowledge and skills, and supporting public and private sector institutions geared at industrial development through interventions and partnerships.
2) The International Decade for People of African Descent (2015 - 2024)
Champion: United Nations
The International Decade for People of African Descent runs from 2015 to 2024. These three goals focus globally, not just on African nations:
a) Recognition- to preserve the right to equality and non-discrimination for all people, regardless of faith, origin, race, or gender. Focus includes equality in education, civil society, access to resources, and opportunity.
b) Justice- including access to information, counsel, and representation, abolishing stereotypes, and fundamental human rights like guaranteeing a fair trial and freedom from violence.
c) Development- including investment and access to education, infrastructure, housing, health, and employment.
3) International Decade of Family Farming (2019 - 2028)
Champion: United Nations Food and Agriculture
The Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 sheds light on what it means to be a family farmer in a rapidly changing world. This decade highlights family farms' importance in eradicating hunger and shaping the future through food.
Family farming ensures food security, improves livelihoods, is superior in managing natural resources, and protects the environment.
4) Earth in Time (2020 - 2030)
Champion: National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicines
Volcanic eruptions, climate change, fluctuations in the global water cycle—Earth science profoundly impacts people around the globe. Understanding these and other geologic phenomena is crucial to preparing society to meet the challenges of a changing Earth. The entire decade of 2020 to 2030 is set aside to increase study in these areas and work toward raising awareness of the various threats. It also seeks to highlight the miracles of our planet.
5) International Decade for Sustainable Energy for All (2014 - 2024)
Champion: United Nations
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) empowers leaders to broker partnerships and unlock financial tools and incentives to achieve universal access to sustainable energy worldwide. A primary objective of SEforALL is to reduce the carbon intensity of energy while making energy, in more sustainable forms, available and affordable to all.
6) International Decade of Healthy Aging (2021 - 2030)
Champion: World Health Organization
Health is central to our quality of life. With good health, we can embrace the opportunities that aging brings. Initiatives undertaken as part of this decade seek to:
a) Change how we think, feel and act towards age and aging;
b) Facilitate the ability of older people to participate in and contribute to their communities and society;
c) Deliver integrated care and primary health services that are responsive to the needs of the individual;
d) Provide access to long-term care for older people who need it.
7) International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022 - 2032)
Champion: United Nations
Over 7,000 indigenous languages are in danger of disappearing forever, and their preservation is essential to millions of people's oral histories and cultures. The International Decade of Indigenous Languages recognizes the importance of language to identity. Throughout these ten years, the United Nations will use this event to draw attention to the escalating loss of indigenous languages and the need to preserve them as an educational medium.
8) International Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021 - 2030)
Champion: United Nations Food and Agriculture
Agricultural expansion accounts for 90% of global deforestation. That is just one of the issues the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, championed by the United Nations, seeks to address. The decade aims to scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems to fight the climate crisis and enhance food security, water supply, and biodiversity.
9) Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace (2019 - 2028)
Champion: United Nations
The Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace honors the former South African president for his humility, forgiveness, and compassion. It acknowledges his contributions to the struggle for democracy and the promotion of peace throughout the world. The decade focuses on ending racism, xenophobia, and related intolerances that oppose United Nations objectives. It emphasizes member nations' resolve to protect children's rights, especially in armed conflict.
10) International Decade for Action on Nutrition (2016 - 2025)
Champion: United Nations
The International Decade of Action on Nutrition seeks to eliminate global malnutrition. According to the United Nations:
821 million people are undernourished;
151 million children aged under five are stunted;
2 billion people have micronutrient deficiencies;
38.3 million children aged under five are overweight;
Over 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese;
Malnutrition costs the global economy up to US $3.5 trillion a year.
--SUN Global Gathering 2017 - DSG United Nations
11) 3rd International Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018 - 2027)
Champion: United Nations
Hunger, malnutrition, lack of education, lack of opportunity, poor health, and discrimination are just some of the results and stigma associated with poverty.
If you've ever experienced a period in your own life when you weren't sure where the money would come from to pay the rent, buy food, or medicine. A time when you couldn't travel to visit family or had to drop out of school because you couldn't come up with tuition, you've tasted what millions of people live with every day. You know the fear, the all-consuming anxiety, and the hopelessness that comes with it. The United Nations continues to address all perspectives of poverty globally and has continued its decade into a third term until poverty becomes a thing of the past.
12) 2nd Decade of Action on Road Safety (2021 - 2030)
Champion: United Nations Road Safety Collaboration
Quite honestly, I don't know where the roads are scarier: the highways of Saudi Arabia, navigating city streets in Rome, simply going from point A to point B anywhere in India, or flagging a taxi from an intersection in São Paulo! Then there is Los Angeles, a completely different animal.
The UN General Assembly designated 2021-2030 as the 2nd Decade of Action on Road Safety, as one decade was insufficient.
According to the Association for Safe International Road Travel, nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes yearly, on average 3,287 daily, while an additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled.
Over 50% of traffic fatalities occur among young adults ages 15-44. Road crashes cost low and middle-income countries USD $65 billion annually, which is more than the total amount of developmental assistance these countries receive. Road traffic injuries will become the fifth leading cause of death without meaningful action by 2030.
13) International Water Action Decade (2018 - 2028)
Champion: United Nations
Water is essential to all life, and without it, nothing lives. To highlight the importance of water, its use, and conservation, the United Nations has set aside an entire decade to achieve the following objectives:
a) Sustainable development and integrated management of water resources for the achievement of social, economic, and environmental objectives;
b) Implementation and promotion of related programs and projects;
c) Furtherance of cooperation and partnerships to achieve internationally agreed water-related goals and targets, including those in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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That's it for this issue. As we find more decade events, we'll add them. I'm going to make a prediction, and I think we'll see a decade devoted to building safety after the fires in Philadelphia and New York this past week. Add into that the apartment building collapses in Surfside, Florida, United States, Lagos, Nigeria, and Bengaluru, India, within the past year, and residential building safety is likely to come up. It fits SDGs 9, 11, 12, 15, and 16.
The next issue will look at the themes for February (It isn't just Valentine's Day and Black History Month). Until then, have a fabulous day, and thanks for subscribing!
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