Target 4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations Target 4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States effective introduction and spread of new and improved products and processes in the economy, reinforcing the ability of individuals and businesses to continuously create wealth. ITU-D contributes to the monitoring of Target 4.4 by collecting and disseminating data on individuals with ICT skills. ITU-D contributes to ensuring equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples by promoting affordable accessible ICTs for persons with disabilities that facilitate the education and vocational training of persons with disabilities and by providing online training to indigenous peoples. ( and ) ITU-D contributes to ensuring the access of training material on ICT-related topics, including on specialized topics such as cybersecurity in order to increase opportunities for employment. Also, ITU-D contributes to targets 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.c through the advocacy and promotion of the power of mobile communications for socio-economic development. The ITU-D m-Powering Development Initiative is creating a resource and an action plan to facilitate the deployment of mobile-based services particularly for m-Health, m-Learning, m-Governance, m-Commerce, etc. Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Target 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 ITU-D contributes Target 5.5. and 5.b by leading the global International Girls in ICT Day campaign to encourage more young women and girls to study and
Target 11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Target 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries Target 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning Target 13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities ITU-D contributes to the achievement of this goal through developing and delivering training programmes on ICT and climate change. It also contributes by increasing resilience through the development and establishment of monitoring and early warning systems, in partnership with other stakeholders. ITU-D contributes to target 13.1 through implementing a project on restoring connectivity through the use of the movable and deployable ICT resource unit. In addition, ITU-D contributes to targets 13.1, 13.3 and 13.b through the implementation of projects on climate change adaptation, developing satellite communications capacity and emergency communications solutions for the Pacific Islands. Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development