Accelerating Progress towards Reaching Sustainable Development Goals

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals.

In September 2015, nearly 200 nations adopted the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) as a transformative, universal framework to address three interwoven dimensions of our global existence—people, planet, and prosperity. They are predicated on the notion that sustainability is not just an aspiration but a necessity. However, by substantially expanding on the scope and targets of their pred...

Technological Progress Towards Sustainable Development

Measuring Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals

• methods for strengthening routine TB surveillance; • ways to improve and standardize the analysis of surveillance data; • where surveys of infection and active disease have already been done, and should be done in future; • the comparative merits of surveys of infection and active disease (with reference to surveillance data); • how to set standards for carrying out prevalence surveys (of bot...

Tracking progress towards the Millennium Development Goals: reaching consensus on child mortality levels and trends.

The increased attention to tracking progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), including Goal 4 of reducing child mortality, has drawn attention to a number of interrelated technical, operational and political challenges and to the underlying weaknesses of country health information systems upon which reliable monitoring depends. Assessments of child mortality published in 2005, f...

Towards evidence-based, quantitative Sustainable Development Goals for 2030

206 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 January 17, 2015 The success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on health has been due to their being easy to understand, ambitious, and achievable and, therefore, suitable for the purposes of advocacy and political mobilisation. The MDGs have brought quantitative targets and measurement of results—previously the domain of the scientifi c community— to cent...