scholarly journals Water-related sustainable development goal accelerators: A rapid review

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 100100
Author(s):  
Lina Taing ◽  
Nga Dang ◽  
Malvika Agarwal ◽  
Talia Glickman
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal

scholarly journals Achievements and Challenges for Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Review of Media in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 12888
Author(s):  
Inge K. Sonn ◽  
Marieta Du Plessis ◽  
Carel D. Jansen Van Vuuren ◽  
Janene Marais ◽  
Emma Wagener ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Facilitative Role ◽  
Media Reports

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic struck globally and has affected higher education institutions (HEIs) and their operations, indirectly impacting the progress of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 achieved thus far. This article addresses HEIs achievements and challenges experienced in the wake of the pandemic. Online news media reports played a facilitative role in providing information to the HEI communities. A rapid review exploring online news media messages relating to higher education at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa was utilised. Narrative synthesis was used to analyse the data. The results highlight HEIs achievements, which aim to ensure that all students receive the same level of education and provision in terms of devices and mental health support. However, challenges were also experienced at HEIs and include students feeling uncertainty and fear regarding completing their education. Furthermore, the results also show that not all students received the same level of education due to contextual factors, thus deepening the existing social disparities in Africa. The pandemic provides an opportunity for HEIs to embed the components of global citizenship education into the curriculum and to work in an innovative way to promote Sustainable Development Goal 4.

scholarly journals Support Mechanisms to Strengthen Equality and Non-Discrimination (EQND) in Rural Sanitation (Part 2 of 2)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Kohlitz ◽  
Naomi Carrard ◽  
Juliet Willett
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
Evaluation Information

A renewed focus on equity is being driven by the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation framework and Sustainable Development Goal 6.2, which emphasise the importance of adequate and equitable sanitation for all. However, as raised in Part 1 of this issue on equality and non-discrimination (EQND), there is evidence that CLTS processes for achieving community-wide outcomes are not always systematic, adequate, sustained, or sufficient to meet the needs of disadvantaged groups. A compilation of 50 CLTS and rural sanitation programmes around the world that significantly used support mechanisms was gathered to inform this issue. Our rapid review of the programmes found that although numerous trials existed, few had been taken to scale, few were located outside of Asia, and many did not have disaggregated monitoring and evaluation information that is publicly shared or collected at all. This issue therefore emphasises the importance of monitoring, evaluating and knowledge sharing processes in building an evidence base for facilitating equitable rural sanitation outcomes.

scholarly journals The potential of health literacy to address the health related UN sustainable development goal 3 (SDG3) in Nepal: a rapid review

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shyam Sundar Budhathoki ◽  
Paras K. Pokharel ◽  
Suvajee Good ◽  
Sajani Limbu ◽  
Meika Bhattachan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Health Related

scholarly journals News media attention in Climate Action: latent topics and open access

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahereh Dehdarirad ◽  
Kalle Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Open Access ◽  
News Media ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Climate Action

AbstractIn this study we investigated whether open access could assist the broader dissemination of scientific research in Climate Action (Sustainable Development Goal 13) via news outlets. We did this by comparing (i) the share of open and non-open access documents in different Climate Action topics, and their news counts, and (ii) the mean of news counts for open access and non-open access documents. The data set of this study comprised 70,206 articles and reviews in Sustainable Development Goal 13, published during 2014–2018, retrieved from SciVal. The number of news mentions for each document was obtained from Altmetrics Details Page API using their DOIs, whereas the open access statuses were obtained using Unpaywall.org. The analysis in this paper was done using a combination of (Latent Dirichlet allocation) topic modelling, descriptive statistics, and regression analysis. The covariates included in the regression analysis were features related to authors, country, journal, institution, funding, readability, news source category and topic. Using topic modelling, we identified 10 topics, with topics 4 (meteorology) [21%], 5 (adaption, mitigation, and legislation) [18%] and 8 (ecosystems and biodiversity) [14%] accounting for 53% of the research in Sustainable Development Goal 13. Additionally, the results of regression analysis showed that while keeping all the variables constant in the model, open access papers in Climate Action had a news count advantage (8.8%) in comparison to non-open access papers. Our findings also showed that while a higher share of open access documents in topics such as topic 9 (Human vulnerability to risks) might not assist with its broader dissemination, in some others such as topic 5 (adaption, mitigation, and legislation), even a lower share of open access documents might accelerate its broad communication via news outlets.

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