유엔 SDGs 시대 국제개발협력 입법과제

As the global community is seeing a historical shift in development agenda regarding United Nations-led international development cooperation from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is time to rethink the meaning of international development cooperation and to make legislative changes with regard to the current international development cooperation. While the MDGs aimed to accomplish specific targets in a limited scope, the SDGs are norms that focus on achieving a broad range of targets. In this regard, a review of the Korean legislation is required to effectively carry out the SDGs. However, various laws related to the SDGs have to be reviewed stage by stage and, in doing so, which law would be first subject to such review needs to be examined in detail. Therefore, consideration should be given to legislative improvements in domestic laws regarding the SDGs, such as the Framework Act on Sustainable Development and the Framework Act on International Development Cooperation. One of the important things, in this case, is to clarify the legal status of both Acts to implement the SDGs as well as their basic ideas that can serve as a foundation for determining a consistent direction, and to specify in the Acts individual provisions concerning the efficient management of the SDGs. Furthermore, legislative improvements in each individual law and for each area have to be made based on the content of the two Acts in a way that corresponds to the targets of the SDGs.