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Analysis Carlo Sagun and Philo Alto 21 November 2023

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 …

News Claudia Cahalane 18 October 2023

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 …

Opinion Havovi Wadia 11 October 2023

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 …

Conference Report Eleanor Margolis 4 October 2023

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 …

News Shafi Musaddique 25 September 2023

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 …

Analysis Lisa Maria Castro and Anna Thompson-Quaye 6 September 2023

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 …

Special feature Lisa-Anne Julien 5 September 2023 For Subscribers

Little by little in Africa… might just do the trick on SDGs

Community philanthropy can help African countries make progress towards meeting the SDGs. And why should their example not be replicated on other continents? Enlisting philanthropy to help countries make progress on the SDGs is nothing …

Special feature Hardi Yakubu 5 September 2023 For Subscribers

Chew the SDGs with caution

Without systems change, localisation cannot salvage the SDG A new report issued this year by the UN says: ‘At this midpoint on our way to 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals are in trouble.’ The report …

Special feature Alliance magazine 5 September 2023 For Subscribers

Mixed reactions to the SDGs from Africa

Alliance asked a number of African organisations how the SDGs inform their work and how useful they found them as a means of determining their own priorities. Here are the responses, in their own words …

Special feature Alberto Anfossi and Marco Demarie 5 September 2023 For Subscribers

SDGs are more than rhetoric

The concrete results of the SDGs may be disappointing, but they remain an important attempt to align disparate development attempts around a set of common aims Summing up the analysis of over 3,000 studies of …