Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy

The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 has been an achievement by itself. They have been in fact the First World's shared goals, the first global agreement to try to end extreme poverty with its main collateral effects. The United Nations (UN) System has been a critical partner in the entire process: to set the MDGs in place, to provide leadership, policy advice to various sets of actors about the mechanism around which the MDGs have been rolled out. It also provided capacity building, training, finances to governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The MDGs have in fact expired at the end of 2015 and, while their evaluation and critiques are being progressively analysed, the post-2015 development agenda has been prepared. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been formally adopted in 25-27 September 2015. Even before the deadline approached, it became evident that the MDGs would not have been achieved by anyone and that huge disparities exist

Our Heritage, 2020

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, got by each United Nations Member States in 2015, gave a common framework to amicability and flourishing for people and the planet, by then and into what's to come. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are a basic call for action by all countries-made and making-in an overall association. This study describes the understanding of all 17 sustainable development goals in detail and observed that fulfillment desperation and various hardships must go inseparable with philosophies that improve prosperity and guidance, decline irregularity, and push financial advancement-all while taking care of natural change and endeavoring to spare our oceans and boondocks. To make the 2030 Agenda a reality, wide responsibility for SDGs must convert into a solid duty by all partners to actualize the worldwide objectives. Regular monitoring and accountability will be essential to sustain policy focus and funding for the broad and complex SGDs agenda.

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.

Abuja Journal of Administration & Management , 2024

The Sustainable Millennium Goals SDGs which are 17 goals that the United Nation in collaboration with 187 world leaders agreed to work together to achieve the sets goals from 20115 to 2030. The SDGs which is an extension of the MDGs, stem from the failure of the MDGs which were to be achieved in 2015 but could not be achieved. This study examined the SDGs from a wider perspective. The study adopted conceptual approach as such, the data for the study is mainly from secondary source and the analysis is analytical. This paper argues that for the SDGs to achieve the set goals there has to be concerted effort from both the UN and the world leaders in terms commitment and mobilization of resources.

Journal of Engineering and Technology Revolution, 2021

Afghanistan endows enormous renewable and nonrenewable resources as a primary impetus for development of energy and agriculture. The percentage of the population whose access to the essential daily necessities for having a healthy life is among the lowest in the world. This dilemma chiefly refers to the rural and remote communities in Afghanistan. In terms of rural societies, sustainable development is a decision-making strategy that balances social, economic, technical, institutional, and environmental aspects that assures the present needs of humankind, considering the future anticipation simultaneously. The concept developed in this study targets achieving the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are appropriate for rural and remote residents' lifestyle change and improvement in Afghanistan. Setting measurable sustainability indicators is indispensable for the productive invention of a sustained plane for a sustainable rural community. This study proposes a sustainable mechanism for Afghanistan's rural development by confirming the 2030 sustainable development 17 Goals (SDGs). Among these SDGs, the designed framework (methodology) meets 11 goals directly and the rest of 6 goals indirectly. Besides, the proposed framework propounds a novel solution and involves all crucial segments of routine healthy life in rural Afghanistan. It consecrated criteria that fit the real-life anticipations and can lead the rural communities toward self-sufficiency for long-run sustainability. Based on the academic research and experts' judgment methods, overall analysis procedures can fit as an analogy, especially for other communities and developing countries as a pilot project. Keywords − Sustainable development goals (SDGs) − Developing nations − Rural empowerment − Socioeconomic development − Micro-grid − Circular economy − Micro-economy theorem − SDGs adoption − Sustainable energy

2015

On 26 September, the United Nations will adopt the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, which includes 17 ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs). These Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals and are meant to make international development transformative and sustainable. This ambition is reflected in their thematic scope which covers fundamental aspects of the social, the economic and the environmental dimensions of sustainable development. In addition, the SDGs are truly universal in nature, i.e. they constitute a challenge for all countries, including the most developed ones. Implementation of the 2030 Agenda will thus involve domestic policymakers as well as international cooperation and go beyond development policy. The list of indicators that is needed for making the goals and targets operational is expected for March 2016. Indicators will be fundamental for implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation. Therefore, a group of experts from the German Dev...

Politics and Governance

The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 sub-targets which serve as a global reference point for the transition to sustainability. The agenda acknowledges that different issues such as poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, environmental degradation, among others, are intertwined and can therefore only be addressed together. Implementing the SDGs as an ‘indivisible whole’ represents the actual litmus test for the success of the 2030 Agenda. The main challenge is accomplishing a more integrated approach to sustainable development that encompasses new governance frameworks for enabling and managing systemic transformations. This thematic issue addresses the question whether and how the SDGs set off processes of societal transformation, for which cooperation between state and non-state actors at all political levels (global, regional, national, sub-national), in different societal spheres (politics, society, and econo...

Ecology, Economy and Society - the INSEE Journa, 2018

One of the biggest global challenges is to achieve the United Nations‟ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed upon by 193 countries in 2015. Many institutions and scholars have called for creating and synthesising knowledge for meeting the 17 ambitious goals (e.g., no poverty, zero hunger, biodiversity conservation, climate mitigation). Some studies recognise synergies and trade-offs among the goals within a place (International Council for Science 2017), but little attention has been paid to SDG interrelationships among different places (Liu 2017). The United Nations states that SDGs should be achieved around the world. For example, SDG 1 aims „to end poverty in all forms everywhere‟. At present, the scores of SDGs are vastly different among countries (Sachs et al. 2017). For instance, the scores of SDG 2 (Zero hunger – „End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture‟) range from 22 (Yemen) to 86 (Sweden) (Figure 1). The vast majority of countries in Africa (e.g., Sudan, Chad, and Niger) are among those with the lowest scores, together with some Asian countries (e.g., India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) and Latin American countries (e.g., El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras). Japan, the US, and western European countries are among those with the highest scores on SDG 2. To achieve SDGs around the world, an integrated framework is required and many fundamental questions need to be answered. For instance, how can the SDGs be achieved everywhere? How do efforts for achieving the goals in one place offset or enhance goal-achieving efforts in other places? I first introduce the metacoupling framework and then apply the framework to illustrate the realisation of SDG 2