Towards evidence-based, quantitative Sustainable Development Goals for 2030

The Lancet ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 385 (9964) ◽  
pp. 206-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Børge Brende ◽  
Bent Høie
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Development Goals

UN Women’s feminist engagement with governance by indicators in the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-366
Author(s):  
Sara Rose Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
Development Goals

The rise of evidence-based policy has brought with it an increase in the use of indicators and data-driven global projects. The United Nations System has used the indicator-based Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) projects to govern policy from above. Of particular interest in this article is how indicators are used to govern gender equality initiatives within the Goals. By using ‘governance by indicators’ as a framework for understanding global policy processes, we can better understand how the power of indicators can help or hinder progress towards gender equality depending on the extent to which it renders gendered concerns visible. Studying indicators in this forum also illuminates spaces of contestation, where policy actors can debate indicators and reshape meaning. Based on this framework, this article explores UN Women’s feminist critique of measurement and knowledge production in the MDGs and SDGs. Looking through their feminist lens applied to this form of knowledge production can yield a better understanding of the use of indicators in shaping evidence-based policy from the global level. In recognizing the value of quantification and data-driven evidence in policy, this article speaks to the tension between feminist critique of quantitative knowledge production and the feminist approach’s welcoming of multiple ways of knowing.

scholarly journals Regional Status Report 2020: Preventing and Responding to Violence against Children in the Americas

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
First Time ◽  
Global Strategies

Violence against children is widespread in the Region of the Americas and it takes many different, equally unacceptable forms. This report is a major milestone for the Region, because it is the first of its kind. It specifically builds on and is informed by the momentum of INSPIRE: Seven Strategies to End Violence Against Children, a technical package of seven strategies based on the best available evidence and with the highest potential to end violence against all children. The report provides a more in-depth analysis of strategies and approaches to prevent and respond to violence against children in the Americas. Being in line with the commitment made by Member States to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and multiple regional and global strategies, attention to this topic is timely. Its importance is further underlined by the fact that it is the first time that governments are self-reporting on their work to address violence against children in line with the evidence-based strategies of INSPIRE. The report comes at unprecedented times, as the COVID-19 pandemic has created a new urgency for action on violence against children. This report offers a baseline of effort in the Region to prevent and respond to violence against all children everywhere.

scholarly journals Diverged Preferences towards Sustainable Development Goals? A Comparison between Academia and the Communication Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (22) ◽  
pp. 4577
Author(s):  
Shin-Cheng Yeh ◽  
Haw-Jeng Chiou ◽  
Ai-Wei Wu ◽  
Ho-Ching Lee ◽  
Homer C. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Communication Industry ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scopus Database

To understand how the sustainable development goals (SDGs) are involved and cited in different fields, the current study aimed to explore the key SDGs and SDG-pairs from the viewpoints of academia and the media. The academic publications with SDG(s)-related keywords in the Scopus database and the entry videos of the “2018 SDG Lions” were collected and analyzed through content and network analysis. It was found that SDG 3 and SDG 10 shared the highest preferences in both industries, but apparent gaps happened to SDG 5. The tied frequencies of the possible SDG pairs were also examined, and SDG 3-10 was identified taking the lead in both industries. Network analysis using degree centrality as the vital parameter demonstrated that SDG 8 and SDG 5 has strong connections with several SDGs for the academia and the media, respectively. The SDG-2-6-7 combination or “water-energy-food” nexus was also found the most frequent combination of three SDGs in the academia. Overall, SDG 3 can be treated as a unifying theme when seeking to acquire evidence-based knowledge for integrated implementation of the SDGs. Important implications for policy-making of the SDGs were also discussed.

scholarly journals Analysis of Disaster Related International Consensus Frameworks 2015-2017: Implications for WADEM

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s77-s77
Author(s):  
Frank Archer ◽  
Caroline Spencer ◽  
Dudley McArdle ◽  
Suresh Pokharel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Position Statement ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Change World ◽  
Development Goals

Introduction:Between 2015 and 2018, a number of influential disaster-related International Consensus Frameworks evolved.Aim:To locate these Frameworks and identify commonalities, potential interactions, and possible implications for WADEM.Methods:A targeted literature review and thematic analysis.Results:The review identified the following Frameworks: Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030; Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda; Paris Climate Change Conference; WADEM Position Statement on Climate Change; World Humanitarian Summit; Core Humanitarian Standards; Sphere Handbook, Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response; Habitat111 - the new Urban Agenda; Sphere Guidelines for Urban Disasters; Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Project; New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants; Dhaka Declaration on Disability and Disaster Risk Management; WHO Emergency Medical Teams and Accreditation; WADEM’s Disaster Research and Evaluation Frameworks; ALNAP’s Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide; and Evidence Aid’s Use of Evidence in the Humanitarian Sector: A Practice Guide.Discussion:All Frameworks used substantial theoretical and/or evidence-based underpinnings, and evolved from structured processes. One subset had major political and government influences while others reflected applied, professional influences. A number of the Frameworks further evolved during 2017-18, providing indicators, international reporting, and interpretative guidelines. Common themes included a desire to improve the quantum and quality of science, evidence-based and accountability, use of Resilience as a conceptual framework, commonalities, and interactions between the new generation humanitarian, development concepts, and traditional disaster concepts, particularly in the global influence of climate change and greater urbanization. Other themes included new paradigms (e.g. international influence of Rockefeller’s Acute Shocks), Chronic Stressors concept, and the anchoring theme of the Sustainable Development Goals and capacity building. The ALNAP, Rockefeller, Sphere, and WADEM Evidence Aid Frameworks provide useful guidelines on how the objectives of these International Consensus Frameworks may be achieved and measured. All Frameworks have implications for the future direction of WADEM.

scholarly journals Helping Babies Survive Programs as an Impetus for Quality Improvement

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 146 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. S183-S193
Author(s):  
Danielle E.Y. Ehret ◽  
Jackie K. Patterson ◽  
Ashish KC ◽  
Bogale Worku ◽  
Beena D. Kamath-Rayne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

Achieving the ambitious reduction in global neonatal mortality targeted in the Sustainable Development Goals and Every Newborn Action Plan will require reducing geographic disparities in newborn deaths through targeted implementation of evidence-based practices. Helping Babies Survive, a suite of educational programs targeting the 3 leading causes of neonatal mortality, has been commonly used to educate providers in evidence-based practices in low-resource settings. Quality improvement (QI) can play a pivotal role in translating this education into improved care. Measurement of key process and outcome indicators, derived from the algorithms (“Action Plans”) central to these training programs, can assist health care providers in understanding the baseline quality of their care, identifying gaps, and assessing improvement. Helping Babies Survive has been the focus of QI programs in Kenya, Nepal, Honduras, and Ethiopia, with critical lessons learned regarding the challenge of measurement, necessity of facility-based QI mentorship and multidisciplinary teams, and importance of systemic commitment to improvement in promoting a culture of QI. Complementing education with QI strategies to identify and close remaining gaps in newborn care will be essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Every Newborn Action Plan targets in the coming decade.

Human rights and mental health care – Can we find a common ground?

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S3-S4 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Pūras
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
A Priority

Future of psychiatry is discussed in the context of modern human rights principles, evidence-based policies and sustainable development goals.After international community agreed on sustainable development goals to be reached by 2030, there is a good opportunity to address mental health as a priority and to substantially invest in promotion of mental health and emotional well-being.Psychiatry, as an influential specialty, needs to reconsider its strategy in this context, and to rethink strengths and weaknesses of its role and image.Protection of dignity and human rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities, in the post-CRPD framework, should become a priority for psychiatry. Common ground for search of a new consensus between different views on non-consensual treatment in psychiatry could be equilibrium within the principles of “first, do no harm”, “right to treatment” and “no hierarchy within human rights”. For mental healthcare practice, this would mean that good intentions to provide evidence-based interventions do not justify the use of force and deprivation of liberty which threatens dignity and universal human rights principles.Psychiatry, while rethinking future directions, should critically reconsider its current focus on neurobiological paradigm and tradition of using force in the name of medicine and social control. These two paradigms, traditionally perceived as strengths of psychiatry and sources of its power, are now too often misused and increasingly discussed as lacking evidence, ignoring human rights and thus threatening image of psychiatry. Instead, psychiatry could consider accepting post-CRPD challenge as a unique opportunity for change, through strengthening strategic alliance with human rights mechanisms, social sciences, general and community medicine, modern public health approach and users’ perspective.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
James Leigland
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Infrastructure Services

Since the 1990s, the development community has recommended the use of public–private partnerships (PPPs) for improving infrastructure services in the poorest countries. The interest in PPPs is now stronger than ever because they are widely perceived to be critical to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But after three decades of experience, a powerful, evidence-based critique of PPPs in the poorest countries is emerging, largely from the practitioner-generated evidence on project performance. This critique is more measured than much of the ideologically based censure of PPPs by civil society groups over the previous two decades. But it highlights numerous cases where PPPs have not been successful. This chapter introduces this topic by explaining what PPPs are, how they work, and where they have been used since the early 1990s. The focus of this book is on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), but insights from other regions are also included.

Restructuring Educational Systems and Promoting Social Justice for Young People Involved in Drug Trafficking in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 227 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Sandro Gomes Pessoa ◽  
Linda Liebenberg ◽  
Dorothy Bottrell ◽  
Silvia Helena Koller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract. Economic changes in the context of globalization have left adolescents from Latin American contexts with few opportunities to make satisfactory transitions into adulthood. Recent studies indicate that there is a protracted period between the end of schooling and entering into formal working activities. While in this “limbo,” illicit activities, such as drug trafficking may emerge as an alternative for young people to ensure their social participation. This article aims to deepen the understanding of Brazilian youth’s involvement in drug trafficking and its intersection with their schooling, work, and aspirations, connecting with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 and 16 as proposed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015 .

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