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The Association of urban and Rural Entrepreneurs of Nigeria commend Council for opening up discuss and undertaking the intercessional meeting for dialogue and cooperation for 2030 agenda for sustainable development and particularly commends transparency in the process and the opportunity given to Major Groups and other stakeholders to make inputs. The Sustainable Development Goals and the Agenda 2030 reaffirm the importance of the Universal Declaration on education for all, gender inequality, Youth empowerment, human right as well as other international instruments relating to girl child education and international law and anchors its shared principles on the Charter of the United Nations, full respect for international law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties among others. The Sustainable Development Goals and the Agenda 2030 emphasizes the responsibilities of all States, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations, to respect, protect and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability or other status. In sum the sustainable development goals is a soft meeting point of all categories. Implementation and reporting on the sustainable development goals can be used to strengthen and empower our timid youths, support girl child education, awareness campaign on climate, inception of the sustainable development goal is still a far cry from the expectation of citizen’s round the worldi . Although Governments emphasized that a robust, voluntary, effective, participatory, transparent and integrated follow-up and review framework would make a vital contribution to implementation, National Voluntary Reporting of various countries have not reflected the emphasis on the agenda on using the sustainable development goals to reaffirm the importance of youth empowerment, education for all and pursing for out of school children objectives. KEY MESSAGES 1. Align national plans for implementing the sustainable development goals with international Human Rights obligations and Objective. 2. National Reports should reflect national priorities and targets for sustainable development and their relation to empowerment and education for all obligations. 3. Methodology that was adopted for the review should be founded on education for all impact assessment and major human rights principle including transparency and participation. 4. Institutional mechanisms for implementation must include the role of National Human rights institutions and human rights NGOs. 5. Means of implementation including plans for financing, data collection should align with objectives of promoting human rights while implementing and reporting on the sustainable development goals. i See UN Human Rights Report 2017 ARUEN.