Glossary

End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.

Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.

Reduce inequality within and among countries.

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.

Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

Being able to live to the end of a human life of normal length; not dying prematurely, or before one's life is so reduced as to be not worth living.

Being able to have good health, including reproductive health; to be adequately nourished; to have adequate shelter.

Being able to move freely from place to place; to be secure against violent assault, including sexual assault and domestic violence; having opportunities for sexual satisfaction and for choice in matters of reproduction.

Being able to use the senses, to imagine, think, and reason, and to do these things in a truly human way, informed and cultivated by an adequate education.

Being able to have attachments to things and people outside ourselves; to love those who love and care for us, to grieve at their absence; in general, to love, to grieve, to experience longing, gratitude, and justified anger.

Minimal digital presence; basic website or social media only.

Active use of digital tools for communication and basic program delivery.

Systematic use of technology for program management, monitoring, evaluation, and beneficiary interaction.

Technology is central to the mission: custom platforms, data-driven programs, or technical innovation in delivery.

Bespoke or hosted web platforms used for program delivery, beneficiary interaction, or organizational coordination.

Native or progressive mobile applications used by beneficiaries, field staff, or partners.

Short message and unstructured supplementary service data systems for low-bandwidth or feature-phone-first contexts.

Use of social networks not merely for promotion but as a direct program channel.

Locally or centrally produced video, audio, or other multimedia for training, advocacy, or outreach.