scholarly journals Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen S. Boyd ◽  
Bertrand Perrat ◽  
Xiaodong Li ◽  
Bethany Jackson ◽  
Todd Landman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Spatiotemporal Patterns ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractThis article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the extent of the prevalence of modern slavery and exploitative labour. This analysis represents the first of its kind in estimating the spatiotemporal patterns in the Bull’s Trench Kilns across the Brick Belt, as well as its connections with various UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a principal focus on Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 regarding the effective measures to end modern slavery by 2030, the article provides additional evidence on the intersections that exist between SDG 8.7 and those relating to urbanisation (SDG 11, 12), environmental degradation and pollution (SDG 3, 14, 15), and climate change (SDG 13). Our findings are then used to make a series of pragmatic suggestions for mitigating the most extreme SDG risks associated with brick production in ways that can improve human lives and human freedom.

scholarly journals Revitalizing the Global Alliances for Sustainable Development: Analyzing the Viability of Sustainable Development Goal 17—A Multi-Actor Governance Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4247
Author(s):  
Elena Bulmer ◽  
Cristina del Prado-Higuera
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Global Partnership ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Common Vision

The seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations, Partnerships for the Goals, aims to strengthen the means of the implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. The successful implantation of the UN’s seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal will aid the execution and achievement of the other sixteen goals. This article explores the importance and viability of Sustainable Development Goal 17, using a case study based in Valencia, Spain. The study presents an illustrative stakeholder situation, where we see that there are conflicting interests among conservationists, fishermen, municipality representatives, and others. Data collection was done using desk-based research and semi-structured interviews. The interview process was performed between October 2018 and October 2019. In total, 21 different stakeholders were interviewed. For the data analyses, a stakeholder register, Power–Interest Matrices, and a stakeholder map were used, and, to complement the latter, narratives were developed. The different analyses showed that most project stakeholders supported the project, while there was really only one stakeholder, the fishermen themselves, who were reticent about participating. However, it was shown over time that, by developing a common vision with them, the fishermen came on board the project and collaborated with the scientists. Stakeholder engagement analyses are especially useful in the application of Sustainable Development Goals at the project level. Although this case study is specifically applicable to a marine conservation context, it may be extrapolated and applied to any other Sustainable Development Goals’ context.

scholarly journals IPTEK BAGI MASYARAKAT: PENERAPAN IoT DENGAN SMARTPHONE PADA SMK PLUS AL-MUSYARROFAH SEBAGAI UPAYA PENCAPAIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL TUJUAN 4 TARGET 3

Sebatik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Mohamad Salman Alfarisi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) memiliki 17 goals dan 169 target, salah-satu fokus SGDs adalah tujuan nomor 4, yaitu menjamin kualitas pendidikan yang adil dan inklusif serta mempromosikan kesempatan belajar seumur hidup bagi semua. Sasaran dari tujuan ini adalah menjamin akses yang merata untuk perempuan dan laki-laki untuk mendapatkan kualitas teknis, kejuruan dan pendidikan tinggi yang terjangkau, termasuk universitas. SMK Plus Al-Musyarrofah memiliki dua Jurusan yaitu Teknik Komputer dan Jaringan (TKJ) serta Tata Niaga (TN). Setiap siswa Jurusan TKJ mendapatkan matapelajaran sesuai dengan jurusannya yaitu Perakitan PC, K3LH, Teknik Elektronika, Instalas PC/Pengoperasian PC, Perwatan PC dan Perbaikan Peripheral, Instalasi Software, Instalasi Perangkat Jaringan Lokal, Pengoperasian PC Tersambung Jaringan, Instalasi SOJ Berbasis GUI. Mata pelajaran yang diperoleh tersebut menitikberatkan pada hardware dan software sebagai pendukung teknologi, oleh karena itu perlu ditambahkan pengetahuan tambahan seperti Internet of Things (IOT) dengan memanfaatkan smartphone. Dengan tambahan pengetahuan IoT Siswa SMK Plus Al-Musyarrofah dapat memanfaatkan secara optimal smartphone dalam kegiatan belajar mengajar seperti IFTTT, Marcro Droid dan Tasker.

scholarly journals Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 793-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Lindsey ◽  
Paul Darby
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

This article addresses the urgent need for critical analysis of the relationships between sport and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals enshrined in the United Nations’ global development framework, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Importantly, there has yet to be any substantial academic exploration of the implications of the position accorded to sport as ‘an important enabler’ of the aims of 2030 Agenda and its broad set of Sustainable Development Goals. In beginning to address this gap, we draw on the concept of policy coherence for two reasons. First, the designation of a specific Target for policy coherence in the 2030 Agenda is recognition of its centrality in working towards Sustainable Development Goals that are considered as ‘integrated and indivisible’. Second, the concept of policy coherence is centred on a dualism that enables holistic examination of both synergies through which the contribution of sport to the Sustainable Development Goals can be enhanced as well as incoherencies by which sport may detract from such outcomes. Our analysis progresses through three examples that respectively focus on: the common orientation of the Sport for Development and Peace ‘movement’ towards education-orientated objectives aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 4; potential synergies between sport participation policies and the Sustainable Development Goal 3 Target for reducing non-communicable diseases; and practices within professional football in relation to several migration-related Sustainable Development Goal Targets. These examples show the relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals across diverse sectors of the sport industry and illustrate complexities within and across countries that make pursuit of comprehensive policy coherence infeasible. Nevertheless, our analyses lead us to encourage both policy makers and researchers to continue to utilise the concept of policy coherence as a valuable lens to identify and consider factors that may enable and constrain various potential contributions of sport to a range of Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Sustainable Monitoring and Surveillance Systems to Improve HIV Programs: Review (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Low-Beer ◽  
Mary Mahy ◽  
Francoise Renaud ◽  
Txema Calleja
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Monitoring And Surveillance ◽  
Hiv Programs

UNSTRUCTURED HIV programs have provided a major impetus for investments in surveillance data, with 5-10% of HIV program budgets recommended to support data. However there are questions concerning the sustainability of these investments. The Sustainable Development Goals have consolidated health into one goal and communicable diseases into one target (Target 3.3). Sustainable Development Goals now introduce targets focused specifically on data (Targets 17.18 and 17.19). Data are seen as one of the three systemic issues (in Goal 17) for implementing Sustainable Development Goals, alongside policies and partnerships. This paper reviews the surveillance priorities in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and highlights the shift from periodic measurement towards sustainable disaggregated, real-time, case, and patient data, which are used routinely to improve programs. Finally, the key directions in developing person-centered monitoring systems are assessed with country examples. The directions contribute to the Sustainable Development Goal focus on people-centered development applied to data.

Interconnectedness of Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Sustainable Development Goals related to ageing

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-63
Author(s):  
Ben Y. F. Fong ◽  
Vincent T. S. Law ◽  
Tiffany C. H. Leung ◽  
Man Fung Lo ◽  
Tommy K. C. Ng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Development Goals

scholarly journals Global cooperation of research and educational activities in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Viktor Zinchenko ◽  
Viktoriia Levkulych ◽  
Olha Palamarchuk ◽  
Mariia Debych
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Science System ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Specific Implementation

The global community has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are closely connected. Specific areas of actions are designed to realize their ambitious vision of a peaceful, socially inclusive world that uses natural resources at a constant level, with major changes at the economic, social, research, educational and environmental levels, with universal respect for human rights, equality and self-determination of all people, as well as environmental protection and social development. UN, UNESCO, OECD, EU implemented strategies and tactics for the development of education (in particular, higher) and science in the context of the formation of sustainable development of society «Sustainable Development Goal 4 – SDG-Education 2030» and «Quality Education» according to «The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development». Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) – aims to provide comprehensive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities. Given the global scarcity of resources and related distribution issues, SDR should contribute to the peaceful coexistence of freedom and prosperity and an enabling environment for present and future generations. SDG facilitates the communication of sustainable development and its specific implementation. Education for sustainable development should be viewed as a common problem and a regulatory idea throughout the global education and science system.

scholarly journals Development after Displacement: Evaluating the Utility of OpenStreetMap Data for Monitoring Sustainable Development Goal Progress in Refugee Settlements

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Jamon Van Den Hoek ◽  
Hannah K. Friedrich ◽  
Anna Ballasiotes ◽  
Laura E. R. Peters ◽  
David Wrathall
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Goal Progress ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring

In 2015, 193 countries declared their commitment to “leave no one behind” in pursuit of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the world’s refugees have been routinely excluded from national censuses and representative surveys, and, as a result, have broadly been overlooked in SDG evaluations. In this study, we examine the potential of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data for monitoring SDG progress in refugee settlements. We collected all available OSM data in 28 refugee and 26 nearby non-refugee settlements in the major refugee-hosting country of Uganda. We created a novel SDG-OSM data model, measured the spatial and temporal coverages of SDG-relevant OSM data across refugee settlements, and compared these results to non-refugee settlements. We found 11 different SDGs represented across 92% (21,950) of OSM data in refugee settlements, compared to 78% (1919 nodes) in non-refugee settlements. However, most data were created three years after refugee arrival, and 81% of OSM data in refugee settlements were never edited, both of which limit the potential for long-term monitoring of SDG progress. In light of our findings, we offer suggestions for improving OSM-driven SDG monitoring in refugee settlements that have relevance for development and humanitarian practitioners and research communities alike.

scholarly journals Analysing Slavery through Satellite Technology: How Remote Sensing Could Revolutionise Data Collection to Help End Modern Slavery

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-199
Author(s):  
Bethany Jackson ◽  
Kevin Bales ◽  
Sarah Owen ◽  
Jessica Wardlaw ◽  
Doreen Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Shrimp Farming ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Satellite Technology ◽  
Brick Kilns ◽  
Modern Slavery

An estimated 40.3 million people are enslaved globally across a range of industries. Whilst these industries are known, their scale can hinder the fight against slavery. Some industries using slave labour are visible in satellite imagery, including mining, brick kilns, fishing and shrimp farming. Satellite data can provide supplementary details for large scales which cannot be easily gathered on the ground. This paper reviews previous uses of remote sensing in the humanitarian and human rights sectors and demonstrates how Earth Observation as a methodology can be applied to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target 8.7.

scholarly journals Digital Earth for Sustainable Development Goals

2019 ◽  
pp. 443-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graciela Metternicht ◽  
Norman Mueller ◽  
Richard Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Un General Assembly

Abstract Sustainable development is nothing new, but it has proven notoriously difficult to implement in practice. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with 17 goals, 169 targets and 232 associated indicators, was approved at the 2015 UN General Assembly and addresses the economic, social and environmental pillars of development, aspiring to attain by 2030 a sustainable future that balances equitable prosperity within planetary boundaries. While the goals are universal (i.e., applicable to both developing and developed countries), it is left to individual countries to establish national Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets according to their own priorities and level of ambition in terms of the scale and pace of transformation aspired to.

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