Adolescent Girls and SDGs: Technovation Girls Tajikistan participants learn about the Global Goals

Today a session on #SDGs - a set of goals to promote peace, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all was held for the Junior and Senior cohort of the Technovation Girls program in Tajikistan. This program aims at providing girls with leadership skills and knowledge and practical skills in the areas of IT and STEM to identify and solve community problems using innovative approaches and solutions.

Participants actively discussed the aspects of various problems that exist in their communities - from gender equality to bullying and from support to animals to the problems of inclusion and equal opportunities for all.

More than 70 adolescent girls attending the sessions received information about the SDGs and discussed how the problems they identified in their communities are tied to SDGs.

In the next few weeks, the Technovation Girls program participants will develop their project proposals and indicate SDG goals relevant to their selected problems and project ideas in their proposals.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.