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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 …
The SDG toolkit
A series of innovative tools are at hand to assist philanthropic organisations in their quest to help build a sustainable future Entering the SDG framework is not always easy, and can leave foundations and other …
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 …
A blueprint for peace and prosperity
Jan Sahas, a community and survivor-centric NPO working across India has embraced the SDGs not because it has been forced to by donor demands, but because they are proving a useful way to organise and …
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 …
SDG-speak in our own backyards
How are high-income countries falling short on the SDGs? The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demonstrate that economic prowess is not a guarantee of success. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the US was not on track …
Sustainable development: Know your audience
The SDGs can provide a valuable means of aligning and measuring efforts towards sustainable development – even more so when they are customised to local circumstances Comunalia is the Alliance of Community Foundations of Mexico, …
