Cross-cutting issues

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda presents a new social compact. This compact contains two components: a commitment to deliver social protection systems and measures for all, including floors; and a package of essential social services. While social protection generally refers to cash transfers and social insurance,such as adequate pensions for older persons, essential public services include the provision of basic social services, such as health and education.

In the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, Governments committed to prioritize the fight against hunger and malnutrition and to adequately support sustainable agriculture. These commitments are largely consistent with the SDGs (SDG 2 to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; SDG target 12.3 on halving food losses and waste). The Addis Agenda includes several additional aspects.

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda delineates impediments to investment in infrastructure on both the supply and demand side. It emphasizes that in many countries, insufficient investment is due in part to inadequate infrastructure plans and an insufficient number of well-prepared investable projects, which underscores the need for government policies along with capacity development. At the same time, financing is insufficient.

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda commits to promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization for developing countries as a critical source of growth, economic diversification and value addition. These commitments are related to SDG 9. While the indicators for the SDG focus on monitoring by outcome, that is, by assessing progress in industrialization and diversification, the Task Force will also look to assess inputs, such as investment flows and policies to promote industrial development.

In the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, governments commit to generate full and productive employment and decent work for all and promote micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to enable all people to benefit from growth.

Specifically, the Addis Agenda:

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda contains a range of commitments to protect ecosystems, many of which are also included in the Sustainable Development Goals and their Means of Implementation targets.

Specifically, the Addis Agenda:

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda commits to promote peaceful and inclusive societies and to build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels to enable the effective, efficient and transparent mobilization and use of resources.

Specifically, the Addis Agenda:

In the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, Member States have committed to promoting and ensuring gender equality. Addis’ strong focus on gender is anchored in its first paragraph, which commits to ensure gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment, and is reflected in gender-specific commitments and actions throughout the seven Action Areas of the Addis Agenda.

In particular, the Addis Agenda:

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda commits to investing in children and youth.

Specifically, the Addis Agenda:

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda commits the international community to support countries in special situations.

Specifically, the Addis Agenda: