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SDGs: 17 goals, 169 targets, Nepal progress and indicators.
This Lok Sewa practice set has 51 multiple-choice questions (Subject: Contemporary Issues · For: Section Officer, Nayab Subba · Level: Medium). Take the quiz above first; after that, use the study list below to revise every question with its correct answer and a short explanation.
Study list: all 51 questions with answers and explanations
The SDGs were adopted by the UN General Assembly in:
- A) 2015 ✔
- B) 2000
- C) 2012
- D) 2020
Why: The 2030 Agenda with the 17 SDGs was adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015.
How many Sustainable Development Goals are there?
- A) 8
- B) 17 ✔
- C) 12
- D) 20
Why: There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals, from SDG 1 (No poverty) to SDG 17 (Partnerships for the goals).
How many targets do the SDGs have?
- A) 17
- B) 232
- C) 169 ✔
- D) 100
Why: The 17 SDGs contain 169 targets, measured by about 230 indicators.
The SDGs are to be achieved by the year:
- A) 2025
- B) 2040
- C) 2050
- D) 2030 ✔
Why: The SDGs are to be achieved by 2030, which is why the plan is called the 2030 Agenda.
The SDGs replaced the:
- A) Millennium Development Goals ✔
- B) Kyoto Protocol
- C) Paris Agreement
- D) Brundtland Report
Why: The SDGs replaced the Millennium Development Goals, which ended in 2015.
How many Millennium Development Goals were there?
- A) 17
- B) 8 ✔
- C) 10
- D) 12
Why: There were 8 Millennium Development Goals.
The MDG period was:
- A) 1990–2000
- B) 2005–2020
- C) 2000–2015 ✔
- D) 2016–2030
Why: The MDGs ran from 2000 to 2015. The SDGs run from 2016 to 2030.
The central promise of the 2030 Agenda is:
- A) Growth first
- B) Industry first
- C) Security first
- D) Leave no one behind ✔
Why: 'Leave no one behind' is the central promise of the 2030 Agenda: progress must reach the poorest and most excluded.
SDG 1 is:
- A) No poverty ✔
- B) Zero hunger
- C) Quality education
- D) Climate action
Why: SDG 1 is No poverty: end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
SDG 2 is:
- A) No poverty
- B) Zero hunger ✔
- C) Clean water
- D) Gender equality
Why: SDG 2 is Zero hunger: end hunger and improve nutrition and sustainable agriculture.
SDG 3 is:
- A) Quality education
- B) Clean energy
- C) Good health and well-being ✔
- D) Life on land
Why: SDG 3 is Good health and well-being for all ages.
SDG 4 is:
- A) Decent work
- B) Reduced inequalities
- C) Gender equality
- D) Quality education ✔
Why: SDG 4 is Quality education: inclusive, equitable education and lifelong learning.
SDG 5 is:
- A) Gender equality ✔
- B) Quality education
- C) Clean water
- D) Life below water
Why: SDG 5 is Gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
SDG 6 is:
- A) Affordable and clean energy
- B) Clean water and sanitation ✔
- C) Zero hunger
- D) Climate action
Why: SDG 6 is Clean water and sanitation for all.
SDG 7 is:
- A) Clean water
- B) Decent work
- C) Affordable and clean energy ✔
- D) Industry and innovation
Why: SDG 7 is Affordable and clean energy.
SDG 8 is:
- A) Reduced inequalities
- B) Sustainable cities
- C) Climate action
- D) Decent work and economic growth ✔
Why: SDG 8 is Decent work and economic growth.
SDG 9 is:
- A) Industry, innovation and infrastructure ✔
- B) Decent work
- C) Life on land
- D) Partnerships
Why: SDG 9 is Industry, innovation and infrastructure.
SDG 10 is:
- A) Gender equality
- B) Reduced inequalities ✔
- C) No poverty
- D) Quality education
Why: SDG 10 is Reduced inequalities within and among countries.
SDG 11 is:
- A) Climate action
- B) Life on land
- C) Sustainable cities and communities ✔
- D) Clean energy
Why: SDG 11 is Sustainable cities and communities.
SDG 12 is:
- A) Climate action
- B) Decent work
- C) Partnerships
- D) Responsible consumption and production ✔
Why: SDG 12 is Responsible consumption and production.
SDG 13 is:
- A) Climate action ✔
- B) Life on land
- C) Life below water
- D) Clean water
Why: SDG 13 is Climate action.
SDG 14 is:
- A) Life on land
- B) Life below water ✔
- C) Clean water
- D) Climate action
Why: SDG 14 is Life below water (oceans and marine resources).
SDG 15 is:
- A) Life below water
- B) Climate action
- C) Life on land ✔
- D) Sustainable cities
Why: SDG 15 is Life on land: forests, biodiversity and land.
SDG 16 is:
- A) Partnerships for the goals
- B) Reduced inequalities
- C) Gender equality
- D) Peace, justice and strong institutions ✔
Why: SDG 16 is Peace, justice and strong institutions.
SDG 17 is:
- A) Partnerships for the goals ✔
- B) Peace and justice
- C) Climate action
- D) Decent work
Why: SDG 17 is Partnerships for the goals: finance, technology, trade and cooperation.
Which goal number is Climate action?
- A) 11
- B) 13 ✔
- C) 15
- D) 7
Why: Climate action is SDG 13.
Which goal number is Gender equality?
- A) 4
- B) 10
- C) 5 ✔
- D) 16
Why: Gender equality is SDG 5.
Which goal number is Quality education?
- A) 3
- B) 5
- C) 8
- D) 4 ✔
Why: Quality education is SDG 4.
Which goal number is Peace, justice and strong institutions?
- A) 16 ✔
- B) 17
- C) 10
- D) 12
Why: Peace, justice and strong institutions is SDG 16.
The 5 Ps of the 2030 Agenda are People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and:
- A) Progress
- B) Partnership ✔
- C) Policy
- D) Production
Why: The 5 Ps of the 2030 Agenda are People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership.
Who coordinates SDG implementation in Nepal?
- A) Ministry of Home Affairs
- B) Election Commission
- C) National Planning Commission ✔
- D) Supreme Court
Why: The National Planning Commission coordinates SDG planning, budgeting and monitoring in Nepal.
Nepal's national SDG document prepared by NPC is the:
- A) Vision 2050 only
- B) Interim Plan 2063
- C) Agenda 21
- D) SDG Status and Roadmap 2016–2030 ✔
Why: The NPC prepared the SDG Status and Roadmap 2016–2030 with national targets and indicators.
Linking budget programmes to SDGs in Nepal is done through:
- A) SDG budget coding ✔
- B) Customs coding
- C) PAN coding
- D) Bank coding
Why: Nepal tags budget programmes with SDG budget codes to show how spending supports each goal.
Making SDGs part of provincial and local plans is called:
- A) Globalisation
- B) Localisation of SDGs ✔
- C) Privatisation
- D) Centralisation
Why: Localisation of SDGs means building the goals into provincial and local plans and budgets.
A country's progress report on SDGs to the UN is the:
- A) Human Development Report
- B) World Bank Report
- C) Voluntary National Review ✔
- D) Census Report
Why: A Voluntary National Review (VNR) is a country's progress report on the SDGs presented at the UN.
Nepal presented its first Voluntary National Review in:
- A) 2015
- B) 2020
- C) 2024
- D) 2017 ✔
Why: Nepal presented its first Voluntary National Review in 2017, and later ones in 2020 and 2024.
Nepal is scheduled to graduate from the LDC category in:
- A) 2029 ✔
- B) 2022
- C) 2030
- D) 2035
Why: The UN has extended Nepal's LDC graduation date to 24 November 2029, giving more time to recover and prepare.
LDC stands for:
- A) Low Debt Country
- B) Least Developed Country ✔
- C) Large Developing Country
- D) Landlocked Developing Country
Why: LDC stands for Least Developed Country, a UN category based on income, human assets and economic vulnerability.
Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs apply to:
- A) Only poor countries
- B) Only rich countries
- C) All countries ✔
- D) Only landlocked countries
Why: Unlike the MDGs, which targeted developing countries, the SDGs apply to all countries.
The three dimensions of sustainable development are economic, social and:
- A) Military
- B) Religious
- C) Political only
- D) Environmental ✔
Why: Sustainable development balances three dimensions: economic, social and environmental.
The UN forum that reviews SDG progress is the:
- A) High-Level Political Forum ✔
- B) Security Council
- C) International Court of Justice
- D) WTO Council
Why: The UN High-Level Political Forum reviews SDG progress every year, including countries' VNRs.
Ending extreme poverty is the aim of SDG:
- A) 2
- B) 1 ✔
- C) 8
- D) 10
Why: SDG 1 aims to end extreme poverty.
Access to electricity and clean cooking fuel falls under SDG:
- A) 6
- B) 9
- C) 7 ✔
- D) 12
Why: Electricity and clean cooking fuel come under SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy).
Forests, wildlife and biodiversity fall under SDG:
- A) 14
- B) 13
- C) 11
- D) 15 ✔
Why: Forests, wildlife and biodiversity come under SDG 15 (Life on land).
Corruption reduction and access to justice fall under SDG:
- A) 16 ✔
- B) 10
- C) 17
- D) 5
Why: Reducing corruption and ensuring access to justice are targets of SDG 16.
Foreign aid, trade and technology cooperation fall under SDG:
- A) 16
- B) 17 ✔
- C) 9
- D) 8
Why: Foreign aid, trade and technology cooperation come under SDG 17.
A major SDG challenge for Nepal is:
- A) Too much money
- B) No climate risk
- C) A large financing gap ✔
- D) Equal development everywhere
Why: Nepal faces a large SDG financing gap: the money needed each year is much more than available resources.
The term 'sustainable development' was popularised by the Brundtland Report of:
- A) 1972
- B) 1992
- C) 2002
- D) 1987 ✔
Why: The Brundtland Report 'Our Common Future' (1987) popularised the term sustainable development.
Sustainable development meets present needs without harming the ability of future generations to:
- A) Meet their own needs ✔
- B) Pay taxes
- C) Travel abroad
- D) Vote
Why: Brundtland defined sustainable development as meeting present needs without harming future generations' ability to meet their own needs.
Which SDG is least directly relevant to landlocked Nepal?
- A) Life on land
- B) Life below water ✔
- C) Clean water
- D) Climate action
Why: Nepal is landlocked and has no sea, so SDG 14 (Life below water) is the least directly relevant.
The 2030 Agenda was adopted at a UN summit held in:
- A) Geneva
- B) Paris
- C) New York ✔
- D) Kathmandu
Why: The 2030 Agenda was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015.