Mongolia Sustainable Development Vision 2030.

This Mongolia Sustainable Development Vision 2030 is a multi-sectorial policy document at the national level for the period 2016-2030. The NSDP highlights 16 National Goals in 7 Priority Areas: 1) Economic Development; 2). Infrastructure; 3) Energy; 4) Social Development; 5) Resilience; 6) Ecological Sustainability; 7) Governance.
The Vision seeks to achieve improved nutrition and food security. Specific objectives include: 1. Protect water resources and prevent water shortage; 2. Increase drinking water supply that meets health standards, and improve the availability of sanitation and hygiene facilities; 3. Reduce factors affecting preventable maternal and child mortality by improving the quality and accessibility of reproductive health care services, and decrease maternal and child mortality and malnutrition; 4. Increase the fertility of soil, reduce land deterioration, adopt economical and efficient advanced agro-technical and irrigation technology to repair soil, and develop intensified farming in order to meet the domestic demand for grains, potato and vegetables.
The Vision sets up the objective of environmental sustainability: to ascertain inclusive economic growth and sustainable social development, and provide the fundamentals of improving the quality of people’s lives by efficiently using natural resources, preserving the sustainability of the ecosystem, and creating opportunities to benefit from natural resources in the long-run. The Vision promotes to preserve the natural landscape and biodiversity, and ensure sustainability of the ecosystem services.
The objective of the sustainable social development will be to ensure gender equality, improve the quality of and access to health care services, create a healthy, safe living environment for the citizens, improve public awareness on health education, provide equal education of high quality to every citizen, build a national system for lifelong education, end all forms of poverty, and increase the share of middleincome classes sustainably and consistently. Specific objectives include: 1. End all forms of poverty; 2. Support employment, train the younger generation with proper knowledge and skills to have a decent work and run a private business, and reduce the unemployment rate; 3.Develop a social security system that takes into account the national characteristics and the changes in the population’s age structure to improve the quality of life; etc.
The development of agriculture, especially light and food industry will be as the highest priority. Specific objectives are: 1. Preserve the gene pool and resilience of pastoral livestock breeding that is adept to climate change, increase productivity; create proper flock structure of livestock in line with grazing capacity, reduce the grazing and land deterioration and rehabilitate, adopt international standards in animal disease traceability, inspection and maintenance technology, and develop livestock sector that is competitive in international markets. 2. Develop intensive livestock farming based on the population concentration and market demand; increase the manufacture of meat and milk products; and develop the supply, storage and transportation network for raw materials and raw products. 3. Support the business and economics of herders and herder groups, and small and medium sized farmers; provide modern techniques, technologies and electricity; and create a financial, economic and legal environment for sustainable production.
The Vision supports coping with climate change. Specific objectives include: 1. Establish national capacity to cope with climate change, and strengthen the system to prevent from meteorological hazard and natural disaster risks; 2. Adopt environment friendly advanced technologies, and reduce the emission of carbon dioxide from production and consumption; etc.