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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …