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Sustainable Development Goals
Philanthropy should track SDG progress
The global community of development practitioners should take pride in the achievement of a consensus move from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the SDGs. The process has not been smooth. There are still disagreements …
Teach development
The Sustainable Development Goals set a new vision for the future of our societies: unlike their predecessors, the MDGs, they don’t distinguish between developed and developing countries and they are meant to be applied universally. …
Case study – Community philanthropy chimes with SDGs
Implementing goals, community by community The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have arrived after years of dialogue. Where the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were formulated in United Nations offices – one was even added as …
Audacity, adaptability key to SDG partnerships
The Sustainable Development Goals focus as much on what we must achieve as they do on how we might go about it. The new global development thus enables new possibilities for how we collaborate across …
Cut waste to prevent hunger
Acting with others, foundations can help halve or reduce even further the amount of food wasted. To do so supports Goal 1 – to end hunger. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s work in Portugal provides an example. Portugal …
Case study – Addressing inequality amid plenty: the SDGs and the United States
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an opportunity to not only address challenges in developing countries, but also to make progress on many of the same challenges that persist in ‘developed’ countries. Each of the …
Case study – Give communities ownership of SDGs
The underlying message of the Sustainable Development Goals is reflected in the statement no one gets left behind. It is hoped that the SDGs move on from an agenda that is ‘done to’ developing countries …
Case study – Fund innovation to protect children
Goal 16 includes the target to ‘End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture against children’. The World Health Organization reports that each year, 40 million children under the age of 15 …
GIFE: Linking private social investment and the global goals
The SDGs were officially launched this year to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and by evaluation of the MDG process, Brazil realized that the most challenging aspect is the implementation of each SDG, which …
Case study – SDG success hinges on political will
Foundations and civil society should stand ready to ensure that government has the political will to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, not just in developing countries but also in developed ones. The Millennium Development Goals …
