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Financing small businesses can help achieve SDG goals
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small and growing businesses (SGBs) are essential to global commerce and have the potential to be instrumental in achieving the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In emerging markets, …
How investment in Philippines’ social enterprises can help meet SDGs
Leading figure in the Philippines’ social enterprise space, Professor Carlo Sagun of Bayan Innovation Group, and Asia Value Advisors’ founder Philo Alto, share how engaging the philanthropy sector and corporations can help social enterprises move the …
Green and social bonds could be key to meeting SDGs
Issuing new green, social and sustainability bonds in emerging markets could be crucial to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is the claim of a new report by the Global Steering Group for …
UNGA: Philanthropy left out of SDG conversations
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will need more funding and a change in approach to localise development efforts in a way that creates an enabling environment for civil society and ensures access to resources from …
How philanthropy can bring the SDGs to life
During the past two decades, there has been an increasing realisation that development programs are more effective when designed and executed by those most affected by the challenges they seek to address. That is why …
Localising the SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals are the international community’s flagship for social, economic and environmental welfare over the next several years; and the focus of the September 2023 issue of Alliance. If the SDGs are to …
Fondation Botnar joined by UNICEF and global players aiming to bring adolescent health wthin SDGs
Adolescents have been a “missing population” in global health priorities for far too long, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That’s according to Swiss philanthropists Fondation Botnar. To address that, it has attracted ten global …
The SDG Fund: Empowering Local Communities to Achieve the SDGs
Reaching the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals will require regional and local development actors to take a leading role in implementation. Those local actors are among the most capable – and most motivated – to help …
Understanding SDG-speak: Half-empty or half-full?
The SDGs continue to attract negative and positive commentary in almost equal measure The SDGs suffer from a problem of scale – or rather of how to mesh two scales, the grand and the miniature. …
Peer dialogue: SDG progress is a city affair
María Fernanda Cortes is the technical coordinator of the Red de Ciudades Cómo Vamos in Colombia, an initiative supported by the Corona Foundation. Here she talks to guest editor Rodrigo Villar about the development of …