Non-conventional learning on sustainable development: achieving the SDGs

Assistive products and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have placed great emphasis on the need for much greater social inclusion, and on making deliberate efforts to reach marginalized groups. People with disabilities are often marginalized through their lack of access to a range of services and opportunities. Assistive products can help people overcome impairments and barriers enabling them to be active, par...

Post 2015: How to Reconcile the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

For the last 20 years, the international development debate has been dominated by two trends that seem at first to be heading in a similar direction. However, under closer scrutiny they differ with respect to their focus and underlying philosophies. These are on the one hand the agenda of reducing poverty in developing countries in its various dimensions (lack of income, education, water, polit...

Planetary Health as a Central Context to the Sustainable Development Goals (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 ...

on the effects of pictorial clues on the efl learners listening comprehension development

the following null hypothesis was proposed: there is no significant difference between the efl students listening comprehension development receiving pictorial cues and those receiving no cuse. to test the null hypothesis, 52 male and femal freshmen students of medicine studing at iran university of medical scinces were randomly selected from a total population of 72 students. to ensure that th...