JST's Action for Implementing the SDGs

Implementing the SDGs: Meeting the Capacity Development Challenge for Integrated Sustainable Development

The Side Event was opened by its host, Dr. Jong-Soo Yoon, Director of the UNOSD. Dr. Yoon briefly described the mission of the UNOSD, its core programming, and its commitment to support the knowledge and capacity development of member states with regard to integrated sustainable development. He reminded those present of the Secretary-General’s synthesis report of December 2014, which “placed a ...

A tool for implementing action graphs

We describe a specification tool for action graphs, which allows the user to naturally switch between between the syntactic and graphical presentations. The implementation includes a general matching algorithm for identifying redexes in a graph, and for animating reductions.

Making the SDGs useful: a Herculean task

www.thelancet.com Vol 388 October 8, 2016 1453 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been called “senseless, dreamy, garbled”, given that they include 17 goals, 169 targets, and 230 indicators, in contrast to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that focused on eight goals, 18 targets, and 48 indicators. Among the earliest sceptics of the SDGs was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...

New INDEPTH strategy for the SDGs using robust population data.

Measuring the SDGs: a two-track solution.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015 and substantial eff ort is being put into the negotiation of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG agenda is broader and goes further than that of the MDGs, and critics claim that it is unmeasurable and unmanageable. On the positive side, the consultation process has been far more inclusive and credible than for the MDG...