The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date ...

Source: United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform While undoubtedly, the MDGs was limited in scope, e.g., it did not cover targets on inequality and it was more concerned about ...

The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the United Nations’ chief initiative for advancing basic living standards and addressing a ...

As world leaders returned from the once-a-decade International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville, they ...

With much fanfare, the U.N. General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015 as the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were set to expire.

The MDGs, adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000, had eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators that were primarily aligned with pre-existing development objectives like improving primary ...

Launched in September 2015 by the United Nations (UN) Summit in New York, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a 15-year plan grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights aimed ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman also cautioned against the misuse of lending by multilateral development banks.

Africa’s renowned comedian and respected humanitarian, Ambassador Francis Agoda, popularly known as I Go Dye, has been officially appointed as a Global Diplomat for Sustainable Development and Peace ...

Alexander Puutio and other global development experts and leaders on how the sector can chart a path forward in the face of ...