Global Health and International Development

Development Goals ◽

The Relationship ◽

Global Population

This chapter explores the relationship between international development and global health. Contrary to the view that development implies ‘good change’, this chapter argues that the discourse of development masks the destructive and exploitative practices of wealthy countries at the expense of poorer ones. These practices, and the unregulated capitalist economic system that they are part of, have created massive inequalities between and within countries, and potentially catastrophic climate change. Both of these outcomes are detrimental to global health and the millennium development goals and sustainable development goals do not challenge these dynamics. While the Sustainable Development Goals acknowledge that inequality and climate change are serious threats to the future of humanity, they fail to address the economic system that created them. Notwithstanding, it is possible that the enormity and proximity of the threat posed by inequality and global warming will energise a counter movement to create what Kate Raworth terms ‘an ecologically safe and socially just space’ for the global population while there is still time.

Achieving the SDGs through interdisciplinary research in global health

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1177/1403494818812637 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (8) ◽

pp. 793-795 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sibylle L Herzig Van Wees ◽

Mats Målqvist ◽

Rachel Irwin

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Global Health Research ◽

Research And Teaching ◽

Starting Point ◽

Development Goals ◽

New Research

The Swedish Global Health Research Conference held in Stockholm, 18–19 April 2018, convened researchers from across Sweden’s universities to foster collaboration and new research. In response to the theme of the conference, How can Sweden contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? From research to action, many of the plenary and keynote speakers highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary research and teaching. This commentary draws upon a workshop discussing interdisciplinarity, which took place at the conference. Participants included senior professors, lecturers, students and collaborators from the private sector and civil society and we discussed the conceptual and structural challenges that prevent engagement in interdisciplinary research. Although the workshop focused on the Swedish context, issues will be familiar to researchers working outside of Sweden. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals highlight the grand challenges for global society and are intertwined, with progress in one affecting progress in all others. With this starting point, we argue that interdisciplinary research is the way to achieve them. Accordingly, we need to overcome the conceptual and structural challenges that can hinder it. We therefore argue for a paradigm shift of how we value knowledge. We also call for fundamental changes in external and internal (university-level) funding structures, and for the strengthening of interdisciplinary global health teaching.

Targeting adaptation to safeguard sustainable development against climate-change impacts

10.21203/rs.3.rs-235355/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lena Fuldauer ◽

Scott Thacker ◽

Robyn Haggis ◽

Francesco Fuso Nerini ◽

Robert Nicholls ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Global Priority ◽

Climate Action ◽

Development Goals ◽

Systems Framework ◽

The Relationship

Abstract The international community has committed to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and to enhance climate action under the Paris Agreement. Yet achievement of the SDGs is already threatened by climate-change impacts. Here we show that further adaptation this decade is urgently required to safeguard 68% of SDG targets against acute and chronic threats from climate change. We analyse how the relationship between SDG targets and climate-change impacts is mediated by ecosystems and socio-economic sectors, which provides a framework for targeting adaptation. Adaptation of wetlands, rivers, cropland, construction, water, electricity and housing in the most vulnerable countries should be a global priority to safeguard sustainable development by 2030. We have applied our systems framework at the national scale in Saint Lucia and Ghana, which is helping to align National Adaptation Plans with the SDGs, thus ensuring that adaptation is contributing to, rather than detracting from, sustainable development.

A STUDY OF DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION IN INDIA UNDER THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2030

EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review ◽

10.36713/epra2966 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 12-20

Author(s):

Dr. Basanta Kalita

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Addis Ababa ◽

Paris Declaration ◽

Water And Sanitation ◽

Sanitation Services ◽

The SDGs agenda is the outcome of a series of international conferences on the issue of environmental sustainability. A principle of common and differentiated responsibility was endorsed by the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20 (2012). The political commitments from the world leaders were confirmed during the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development held in Addis Ababa in July 2015 for a common policy on sustainable development. The goals are broad based and interdependent. Finally the Paris Declaration on Climate Change (2016) paved the way for the adoption of a comprehensive list of goals to be achieved by 2030. Each of the 17 sustainable development goals has a list of targets which are measured with indicators and are interdependent. The present study will be confined to the 6th goal which is ensuring “Clean water and Sanitation” in the Indian context. KEYWORDS: SDGs agenda, Climate Change, employment, sanitation services

The Role of Business in International Development and the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals

10.1017/9781108907293.006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 86-114

Author(s):

Katerina Akestoridi

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

International Development ◽

Farmer-Prioritized Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies

Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190949501.003.0021 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 423-445

Author(s):

Caroline Mwongera ◽

Chris M. Mwungu ◽

Mercy Lungaho ◽

Steve Twomlow

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Smallholder Farmers ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Development Goals ◽

Smart Agriculture ◽

Study Sites ◽

Context Specific

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) focuses on productivity, climate-change adaptation, and mitigation, and the potential for developing resilient food production systems that lead to food and income security. Lately, several frameworks and tools have been developed to prioritize context-specific CSA technologies and assess the potential impacts of selected options. This study applied a mixed-method approach, the climate-smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA) tool, to evaluate farmers’ preferred CSA technologies and to show how they link to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The chapter examines prioritized CSA options across diverse study sites. The authors find that the prioritized options align with the food security and livelihood needs of smallholder farmers, and relate to multiple sustainable development goals. Specifically, CSA technologies contribute to SDG1 (end poverty), SDG2 (end hunger and promote sustainable agriculture), SDG13 (combating climate change), and SDG15 (life on land). Limited awareness on the benefits of agriculture technologies and the diversity of outcomes desired by stakeholders’ present challenges and trade-offs for achieving the SDGs. The CSA-RA provides a methodological approach linking locally relevant indicators to the SDG targets.

International development assistance and health

Health Equity in a Globalizing Era ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198835356.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 140-163

Author(s):

Ronald Labonté ◽

Arne Ruckert

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

International Development ◽

Development Assistance ◽

Macroeconomic Policies ◽

Health Gains ◽

Development Goals ◽

The 1960S ◽

Open Question

The pursuit of global health gains has been one the aims of international development policy for several decades. Along with migration, trade agreements and dominant macroeconomic policies (i.e., neoliberalism), development assistance (aid) is one of the defining elements of contemporary globalization, a noblesse oblige on the part of wealthier nations to support the improvement of lives in poorer, often former colonized, nations. Rarely achieving its stated commitments, and declining since its peak-generosity in the 1960s, aid has been subject to intense disagreements, vacillating between being seen as creating a neocolonial dependency, to arguments for its absolute necessity in saving lives. Since 2000 the aid discourse has been dominated by global development goals, the first set expiring in 2015 (the Millennium Development Goals) and the next and more exhaustive set running until 2030 (the Sustainable Development Goals). Whether these new goals will deliver on their commitments remains an open question.

Global health research partnerships in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy ◽

10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.08.015 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (11) ◽

pp. 1614-1618 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joyce Addo-Atuah ◽

Batoul Senhaji-Tomza ◽

Dipan Ray ◽

Paramita Basu ◽

Feng-Hua (Ellen) Loh ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Health Research ◽

Global Health Research ◽

Research Partnerships ◽

WPS and Sustainable Development Goals

The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190638276.013.53 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 703-714

Author(s):

Radhika Balakrishnan ◽

Krishanti Dharmaraj

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Policy ◽

Human Rights ◽

Economic System ◽

Sustainable Peace ◽

Peace And Security ◽

Development Goals ◽

Violent Conflicts ◽

The Relationship

This chapter suggests that achieving sustainable development requires a change in the current economic system. Moreover, it advances the idea that an economic system based on the fulfillment of human rights and a peace and security agenda must consider what polices are needed to achieve sustainable peace, beyond the absence of war and violence. The chapter observes that in order to examine the issues surrounding women, peace, and security it is critical to unpack the relationship between existing economic policy and violent conflicts, and to consider how women are disproportionately affected at this intersection. If the fulfillment of human rights was at the center of economic policymaking, the chapter argues, the way in which the state gets and distributes resources would be very different.

Handbook of Research on Islamic Social Finance and Economic Recovery After a Global Health Crisis - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

10.4018/978-1-7998-6811-8.ch018 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 280-295

Author(s):

Nur Farhah Mahadi ◽

Nor Razinah Mohd. Zain ◽

Shamsuddeen Muhammad Ahmad

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Financial Inclusion ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Development Goals ◽

Corporate Social ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of Islamic social finance towards realising financial inclusion in achieving nine of the seventeen goals of sustainable development goals (SDGs) which are SDG1, SDG2, SDG3, SDG4, SDG5, SDG8, SDG9, SDG10, and SDG17 in the 2030 agenda for SDGs, as propagated by United Nations Member States in 2015. Then, a critical analysis is made to explain the possible contribution of Islamic social finance in achieving financial inclusion which is aligned with SDGs that brings balanced to the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual of the community in supporting overall economic growth which finally combats the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further research and empirical studies can be conducted to explore the relationship between Islamic social finance, financial inclusion, and SDGs which in tandem with Maqᾱṣid al-Sharῑ῾ah to equip ourselves in unpredictable economic hiccups during COVID-19. The results may also motivate the financial industries to promote Islamic social finance products and corporate social responsibilities as well as enhance the development of Islamic social finance towards achieving financial inclusion in fulfilling SDGs which soon will provide significant social impacts as the results will enable new initiatives by industries and policy makers to develop Islamic social finance in attaining financial inclusion to achieve SDGs which is seen as being parallel with Maqᾱṣid al-Sharῑ῾ah especially in resolving economic issues of COVID-19.

Global eye health and the sustainable development goals: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035789 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. e035789

Author(s):

Justine H Zhang ◽

Jacqueline Ramke ◽

Nyawira Mwangi ◽

João Furtado ◽

Sumrana Yasmin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Published Data ◽

Data Ethics ◽

Eye Health ◽

Health Related ◽

IntroductionIn 2015, most governments of the world committed to achieving 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) by the year 2030. Efforts to improve eye health contribute to the advancement of several SDGs, including those not exclusively health-related. This scoping review will summarise the nature and extent of the published literature that demonstrates a link between improved eye health and advancement of the SDGs.Methods and analysisSearches will be conducted in MEDLINE, Embase and Global Health for published, peer-reviewed manuscripts, with no time period, language or geographic limits. All intervention and observational studies will be included if they report a link between a change in eye health and (1) an outcome related to one of the SDGs or (2) an element on a pathway between eye health and an SDG (eg, productivity). Two investigators will independently screen titles and abstracts, followed by full-text screening of potentially relevant articles. Reference lists of all included articles will be examined to identify further potentially relevant studies. Conflicts between the two independent investigators will be discussed and resolved with a third investigator. For included articles, data regarding publication characteristics, study details and SDG-related outcomes will be extracted. Results will be synthesised by mapping the extracted data to a logic model, which will be refined through an iterative process during data synthesis.Ethics and disseminationAs this scoping review will only include published data, ethics approval will not be sought. The findings of the review will be published in an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. A summary of the results will be developed for website posting, stakeholder meetings and inclusion in the ongoing Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health.