Making Voices Heard and Count in Denmark

The Leave No One Behind coalition in Denmark was founded in 2021. The country lead organisation is ActionAid Denmark.

Current members (November 2021) are:

  • Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (ActionAid Denmark)
  • Sex & Samfund (The Danish Family Planning Association)
  • Danske Handicaporganisationer (Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark)
  • Kirkens Korshær (DanChurchSocial)
  • Globale Seniorer (Global Seniors)
  • Ilisimasavut
  • Dansk Flygtningehjælp (Danish Refugee Council)
  • Kvinderådet (The Women’s Council Denmark)

The Denmark coalition is in the early stages of its first data project, focusing on key issues affecting marginalised populations in the country. These issues are related to discrimination based on age, gender and disability, financial inequality, health and violence against women, voting and political representation as well as mobility/transportation. The coalition’s work is centred on SDG target 10.2: “By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.” The coalition plans to publish its first set of data and recommendations in September 2022.

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Denmark Pilot

Denmark Ongoing Project

Denmark Publications

LNOB Report

The Leave No One Behind (LNOB) Denmark coalition has launched a new report which is both methodologically strong and has thematic political recommendations. The report is addressed to the government and other authorities and stakeholders who have the main responsibility to implement the SDGs and LNOB in Denmark.

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Eight CSOs form a coalition to help Wammen with the global goals

Eight CSOs have formed a Danish "Leave No One Behind" coalition to give recommendations to Finance Minister, Nicolai Wammen on designing an action plan to achieve the UN's global goals.

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Denmark’s second Voluntary National Review presented at the 2021 HLPF

In this video, Minister for Finance, Nicolai Wammen (S) presents Denmark’s second Voluntary National Review (VNR). The VNR was presented at the 2021 UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF).

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Spotlight Report: Challenges for Denmark on the Way to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (2017-2021)

Globalt Fokus coordinates this civil society report about the SDGs. For 2021, the LNOB coalition in Denmark contributed to the chapter about Leaving No One Behind.

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Our Target SDGS in Denmark

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3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality. Major progress has been made on increasing access to clean water and sanitation, reducing malaria, tuberculosis, polio and the spread of HIV/AIDS. However, many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues.

Related Denmark Targets

3.7

By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals (including equal access to primary education between girls and boys), women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world.

Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

Providing women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in political and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.

Related Denmark Targets

5.2

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

8. Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
8. Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all

8. Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all

Roughly half the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of about US$2 a day. And in too many places, having a job doesn’t guarantee the ability to escape from poverty. This slow and uneven progress requires us to rethink and retool our economic and social policies aimed at eradicating poverty.

A continued lack of decent work opportunities, insufficient investments and under-consumption lead to an erosion of the basic social contract underlying democratic societies: that all must share in progress. The creation of quality jobs will remain a major challenge for almost all economies well beyond 2015.

Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs that stimulate the economy while not harming the environment. Job opportunities and decent working conditions are also required for the whole working age population.

Related Denmark Targets

8.5

By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

The international community has made significant strides towards lifting people out of poverty. The most vulnerable nations – the least developed countries, the landlocked developing countries and the small island developing states – continue to make inroads into poverty reduction. However, inequality still persists and large disparities remain in access to health and education services and other assets.

Additionally, while income inequality between countries may have been reduced, inequality within countries has risen. There is growing consensus that economic growth is not sufficient to reduce poverty if it is not inclusive and if it does not involve the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental.

To reduce inequality, policies should be universal in principle paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

Related Denmark Targets

10.2

By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status

11. Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
11. Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

11. Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. At their best, cities have enabled people to advance socially and economically.

However, many challenges exist to maintaining cities in a way that continues to create jobs and prosperity while not straining land and resources. Common urban challenges include congestion, lack of funds to provide basic services, a shortage of adequate housing and declining infrastructure.

The challenges cities face can be overcome in ways that allow them to continue to thrive and grow, while improving resource use and reducing pollution and poverty. The future we want includes cities of opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.

Related Denmark Targets

11.2

By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons

16. Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
16. Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

16. Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals is dedicated to the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, the provision of access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable institutions at all levels.

Related Denmark Targets

16.3

Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all

16.7

Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels