Regine Halseth, Viviane Josewski, Margo Greenwood, and Omolara Odulaja

Revisiting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Summary of a report on progress

December 2024

In 2015, the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals agenda came to an end and was replaced by a new, more expansive, 15-year agenda – the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) released a report in 2018 that assessed the state of Canada’s progress on meeting the SDG targets for First Nations peoples, Inuit, and Métis peoples and made recommendations for how to move the 2030 Agenda forward for the betterment of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. With several years having passed since the release of this report and the election of new minority Liberal governments in 2019 and 2021, the NCCIH decided that revisiting progress on the SDG targets for Indigenous Peoples was warranted.

The report, Revisiting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Indigenous Peoples in Canada: A report on progress, draws on research and literature published since the release of the 2018 report on SDGs up to the end of 2022. Following the same structure as the original report, this new report examines 17 SDGs and their relation to Indigenous Peoples across five thematic areas: socio-economic marginalization, promotion of health and well-being, equality and social inclusiveness, the environment, and the importance of partnerships. The authors review progress made since the release of the 2018 recommendations and conclude by offering new recommendations for moving forward.

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