Aid Recipients, Global Development Cooperation and the Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Md Shahidulla Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Global Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

scholarly journals China’s Embrace of the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Dandan Zhu ◽  
Qiyuan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Global Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Partnerships ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Opening Up

Since the 1990s, the United Nations has issued three agendas for global development cooperation. China’s attitude toward these agendas has also undergone three phases: from cautious passivity at first, to active yet restrained involvement, and to fully embracing them. On January 1, 2016, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the primary goals for global development cooperation in the next 15 years. But there are substantial differences between the SDGs and MDGs, which will inevitably exert significant impacts on China’s domestic development and its involvement in international cooperation. In its response, China should carefully examine its strengths and constraints before making a comprehensive national strategy for sustainable development, so as to advance domestic structural reforms and facilitate its commitment to the implementation of the SDGs. Meanwhile, China should actively push forward international collaboration in line with its opening-up policy, including South-South and South-North cooperation, as well as new mechanisms for trilateral cooperation. All these efforts will contribute to the establishment of new global partnerships for common development and the fulfillment of the SDGs.

scholarly journals Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Croese ◽  
Cayley Green ◽  
Gareth Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Paris Climate Agreement ◽  
The City

Urban resilience is increasingly seen as essential to managing the risks and challenges arising in a globally changing, connected, and urbanized world. Hence, cities are central to achieving a range of global development policy commitments adopted over the past few years, ranging from the Paris Climate Agreement to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, knowledge of the ways in which cities are going about implementing resilience or of how such efforts can practically contribute to the implementation of global agendas is still limited. This paper discusses the experience of cities that were members of the 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) network, an entity pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation. It reviews the resilience strategies developed by 100RC members to show that 100RC cities are increasingly aligning their resilience work to global development policies such as the SDGs. It then draws on the case of the city of Cape Town in South Africa to illustrate the process of developing a resilience strategy through 100RC tools and methodologies including the City Resilience Framework (CRF) and City Resilience Index (CRI) and its alignment to the SDGs and reflects on lessons and learnings of Cape Town’s experience for the global city network-policy nexus post-2015.

scholarly journals India as a Partner in Triangular Development Cooperation

2020 ◽  
pp. 625-645
Author(s):  
Sebastian Paulo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Indian Experience ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractThe chapter argues that India’s emerging practice of triangular cooperation does not fit easily with established definitions and concepts. India’s special brand of engagement in triangular cooperation has the potential to reshape important aspects of the global architecture of development cooperation and make significant contributions to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The chapter suggests how Indian experience can inform the analysis and international practice to increase the value of triangular cooperation for developing countries.

scholarly journals The Epidemic of Obesity in a Pandemic Era: Urgency to Invest in Adolescent Health

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 608
Author(s):  
Flora Bacopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

In September 2015, United Nations’ 193 member states signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the global development agenda 2030 [...]

scholarly journals New Challenges for Russia’s Foreign Aid and Its Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Yuriy Zaitsev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Creation

The article discusses current trends in the Russian practice of international development assistance (IDA). Despite international isolation, the Russian government continued to increase its allocations for official development assistance (ODA), which, from 2015, amount to about USD1 billion annually. The author identifies key problems in the field of IDA related to monitoring and evaluation, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and interaction with the business sector. The author describes the actions of the government in its quest to solve these problems. Special emphasis is placed on a comparative analysis of the SDG indicators with indicators of national development goals until 2024. This makes it possible to link Russian goals with international priorities. The theoretical basis of this study is the ‘systemic change’ and ‘scaling up approach’, which are often used in research on development economics. A “large-scale approach” allows us to measure the scale of Russia's participation in construction and installation work in terms of the number of allocated resources, the number of stakeholders involved, geographical coverage, etc. The “systemic change” approach explains how Russia's development cooperation activities are aligned with national goals and the SDGs, as well as the transformation in the structure and dynamics of the system, which leads to an impact on the material conditions or behavior of stakeholders. In conclusion, the author reflects on the prospects for the creation of a national monitoring and evaluation system in the area of ​​IDA, as well as on the possibilities of contributing to the achievement of the SDGs by 2030. One of the directions could be increased participation in the formation of new international development institutions, including the creation of the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) along with the expansion of bilateral programs in the field of international development assistance.

scholarly journals Aid Effectiveness in the Sustainable Development Goals Era Comment on ""It’s About the Idea Hitting the Bull’s Eye": How Aid Effectiveness Can Catalyse the Scale-up of Health Innovations"

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osondu Ogbuoji ◽  
Gavin Yamey
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Paris Declaration ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Partnership ◽  
Development Goals

Over just a six-year period from 2005-2011, five aid effectiveness initiatives were launched: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the International Health Partnership plus (2007), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for Effective Cooperation (2011), and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) (2011). More recently, in 2015, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) was signed at the third international conference on financing for development and the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) 2030 Global Compact was signed in 2017. Both documents espouse principles of aid effectiveness and would most likely guide financing decisions in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) era. This is therefore a good moment to assess whether the aid effectiveness agenda made a difference in development and its relevance in the SDG era.

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