Links between drowning prevention and SDGs17 62
| Goal | Target | Link to drowning prevention | |
| Direct benefits | 1. No Poverty | 1.5: By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters. | Efforts to reduce exposure to climate-related extreme events and natural disasters that involve flooding will reduce risk of drowning. |
| 3. Good Health and Well-being | 3.2: By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1000 live births. | Given drowning is a leading cause of preventable death in many countries; efforts to reduce drowning will directly contribute to the target. | |
| 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities | 11.5: By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters. | Efforts to reduce exposure to climate-related extreme events and natural disasters that involve flooding will reduce risk of drowning. | |
| 13. Climate Action | 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries. | Efforts to reduce exposure to climate-related extreme events and natural disasters that involve flooding will reduce risk of drowning. | |
| Indirect benefits | 2. Zero Hunger | 2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round. | Efforts to ensure increased access to food will likely involve enhancement of agricultural efforts, which usually involves irrigation, which may increase exposure to drowning risk if drowning is not considered as part of irrigation schemes. |
| 6. Clean Water and Sanitation | 6.1: By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. | Efforts to provide safe and affordable drinking water will require enhancements to water supply and sanitation infrastructure. This often means closed systems (pipes) as opposed to open systems (rivers, wells) and may also reduce need for children to fetch water thereby reducing risk of drowning. | |
| 6.3: By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimising release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally. | |||
| 9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure | 9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all. | In settings where water transport is prevalent, efforts to improve infrastructure to support economic development should also result in safer water transport policy, thereby reducing the risk of water transport-related drowning. | |
| Incidental contributions | 4. Quality Education | 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes. | Making water safety education, including water survival skills training, a mandatory part of educational curricula could contribute to a quality education |
| 5. Gender Equality | 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere. | Introduction of community crèche programmes to ensure adequate supervision of children or programmes to build first-responder skills among women could provide increased employment opportunities to women at the same time as addressing primary and secondary prevention of drowning. | |
| 5.4: Recognise and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate. | |||
| 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth | 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalisation and growth of micro-sized, small-sized and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services. | In settings where work involves exposure to water (eg, fishing), efforts to promote jobs and safe and secure working environments should also address drowning risks. | |
| 8.8: Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment. |
SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals.