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ACCREDITATION: SUPPORTING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)

Accreditation: Supporting the Implementation with its other Quality Infrastructure (QI)
of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is institutions including metrology,
the theme for 2021 World Accreditation Day standardization, conformity assessment and
which was celebrated worldwide on 9 June 2021. market surveillance, is a critical cornerstone in
This theme highlights the role of accreditation in supporting the SDGs and the three interrelated
supporting the implementation of UNSDGs. thematic priorities: creating shared prosperity,
advancing economic competitiveness and
The International Laboratory Accreditation safeguarding the environment.
Cooperation (ILAC) and the International
Accreditation Forum (IAF) have maintained a The technical and operational foundations that are
close strategic partnership and technical critical to the functioning of developed and
cooperation with the United Nations Industrial developing societies are delivered through
Development Organization (UNIDO) as it accreditation. Accreditation supports policy
54 recognizes the important role that accreditation objectives in areas including cross-border trade,
plays in the achievement of the sustainable food safety, health and environmental protection,
development agenda and its impact on industrial and industrial and infrastructural development.
development and economic growth. Accreditation provides a trusted platform for
Accreditation, in collaboration with other quality defining, developing and verifying requirements
infrastructure institutions, provides the technical for products and services, helping to ensure and
foundations that are critical to the functioning of demonstrate that products and services meet
developed and developing societies. It enables specified requirements. It also provides
industrial development, trade competitiveness in policymakers, businesses and other stakeholders
global markets, efficient use of natural and with the technical knowledge and capacity to
human resources, food safety, and health and strengthen the implementation, measurement and
environmental protection. monitoring of many of the objectives and targets
contained in the SDGs, and support to achieve
The SDGs are at the core of the United Nations' them.
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a
broad and ambitious plan of action with the While there have been a number of successes
overarching objective of leaving no one behind. around the world, the theme of this year’s World
The UN’s SDGs represent a blueprint for Accreditation Day 2021 has been chosen to
achieving a better and more sustainable future. ensure that policymakers continue to use
These SDGs address global challenges including accreditation and QI services to support their
poverty, inequality, climate change, SDG Agenda. World Accreditation Day provides
environmental degradation, and justice. There the opportunity for ILAC and IAF members to
are 17 SDGs with 169 associated targets which share examples of how accreditation may be
seek to guide all global, regional and national applied to meet objectives such as increasing
development endeavours. Accreditation and, trade, addressing health and safety concerns, and

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