The Mediterranean Way a model to achieve the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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

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...

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...

Strengthening Peace through ‘resilience’ in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Policy Brief: Resilience and the Sdgs

In September 2015, heads of state gathered at the UN general Assembly to adopt a new global development agenda, commonly referred to as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Earlier in July 2015, Ministers of finance had met to agree on the means for financing this new development agenda which replaces the Millennium Development Goals that reflected the development priorities between 2000 a...

Before Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): why Nigeria failed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

World leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000, which committed the nations of the world to a new global partnership, aimed at reducing extreme poverty and other time-bound targets, with a stated deadline of 2015. Fifteen years later, although significant progress has been made worldwide, Nigeria is lagging behind for a variety of reasons, including bureaucracy, poor resource manag...