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Sustainable Development Goals
Over a billion Singaporean dollars pledged by newly launched Philanthropy Asia Alliance
Philanthropy Asia Alliance (PAA), a new organisation launched to tackle environmental and social challenges, has pledged more than $1 billion Singaporean dollars (US $777 million). The Temasek Trust, based in Singapore, announced the launch at …
Asia Community Foundation launches continent-wide mission tackling sustainable development goals
The Asia Community Foundation (ACF), based in Singapore, officially launched in September as it seeks to address educational and sustainable development goals (SDGs) across Asia. Described as the first Asia-focused independent community foundation, ACF …
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 …
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 …
