scholarly journals Attaining Sustainable Development Goal for Newborn Survival: Reinforcing Postnatal Interventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Subhashchandra Daga
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Antibiotic Therapy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Neonatal Deaths ◽  
Oxygen Administration ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Low Birth Weight Babies ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Difference

Under the sustainable development goals (SDG), the target for neonatal mortality rate (NMR) was proposed to be less than 12 per 1000 live births by 2030 and may not meet the SDG 2030 NMR target. It may be prudent to focus on moderately low birth weight babies, 1500-2499 g, to reach the goal. This category of babies constitutes 37% of newborn deaths. They need supervised care for a short period that consists of the provision of warmth and breastfeeding with or without antibiotic therapy, and with or without oxygen administration. Despite knowing that these interventions can reduce neonatal deaths, deficiencies in how to implement these measures may be making all the difference to the expected outcome. This paper suggests possible ways to enhance the effectiveness of some of the better-known interventions such as the provision of warmth, feeding, resuscitation, oxygen administration, delivery of continuous positive airway support, and antibiotic therapy.

scholarly journals Land Tenure in Latin America: from Land Reforms to Counter‑Movement to Neoliberalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 1793-1798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo von Bennewitz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Difference

Latin America, with a Gini coefficient for land of 0.79, is the world’s most unequal region in terms of land distribution. Land inequality is one of the greatest impediments to Latin American societies for achieving sustainable development and economic growth. Many studies have demonstrated how an unequal land concentration affects the quality of democracy and social cohesion and inhibits economic growth. Land is the main and in many cases the only asset for millions of rural households in the region and Land tenure can mean the difference between subsistence and extreme poverty. The present work reviews the agrarian reform processes that were experienced in part of Latin America and examines the impacts of the subsequent neoliberal reforms on land tenure, land and capital concentration. Finally it focuses on the need of a new distribution of land in order to achieve higher levels of Socio‑Economic equality an also meet the Sustainable Development Goals in the region.

scholarly journals Participatory Budgeting as a Tool Contributing to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-60
Author(s):  
Tatiana I. Vinogradova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Budget Process ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Difference

The paper investigates the participatory budgeting phenomenon in how it may accelerate many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and support governments in reaching targets of the 2030 Agenda. The article analyzes the links between public participation in the budget process and sustainable development, illustrates the difference between participatory budgeting and other forms of public participation, and highlights the main effects of participatory budgeting. Results emerged from the analysis are that participatory budgeting as an adaptive mechanism can be integrated into the national objectives for the localization of the 2030 Agenda; that as a small-scale tool it can become a mechanism for testing numerous innovative approaches to public services provision; and that the “sustainable community creation” effect is the most important contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Impact of sustainable development goals on strategic planning in the Russian regions

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 06001
Author(s):  
Artem Mazein
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Difference

Achievement by states of the Sustainable Development Goals proclaimed by the UN in 2015 requires appropriate governance. The most appropriate method is strategic planning. A large number of strategic planning documents have been adopted in Russian regions. The author notes that the words “plan,” “forecast,” “strategy,” “program” are found in the names of 950 thousand legal acts of the regional and municipal levels. This is about 9% of their total. In this article, the author examines regional legislation for the inclusion of ideas on sustainable development. The author uses methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, and system-structural method. The study results confirm that the regulation of sustainable development is reflected primarily in strategic planning documents. The author shows that references to sustainable development in 88% of cases are found in strategic planning documents. Strategic planning documents are adopted following the federal law “On strategic planning in the Russian Federation". However, the article concludes that the approaches to the formation of strategic planning documents are different. The author demonstrates that similar strategic documents are adopted by various bodies and for different periods. For example, only 46 out of 85 regional development strategies have been adopted until 2030; the rest have different implementation dates. The author concludes that the difference in approaches is permissible, and the intersection of strategic measures in various documents of the same level must be timely excluded.

scholarly journals The role of Jordanian school principals in achieving the fourth goal of the sustainable development goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-186
Author(s):  
Rawan kheder Yousef Abu shaqra
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Moderate Degree ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Difference

This study aimed to detect the role of Jordanian school principals in achieving the fourth goal of the sustainable development goals. The study population comprised of all the (3865) basic school male and female principals in the first semester of the academic year 2020/2021. The randomly selected sample consisted of (378) principals. The researcher adopted a descriptive survey approach and built a questionnaire consisting of (36) items based on the UN indicators of the fourth goal of sustainable development goals. The study came out with several main results, some of which were the role of Jordanian school principals in achieving the fourth goal of the sustainable development goals came at a moderate degree and that there are statistically significant differences at the level of statistical significance (α = 0.05) between the respondents’ estimates. It also indicates that there are statistically significant differences at the level of statistical significance (α = 0.05) between the averages of the respondents’ estimates of the overall score of the role of Jordanian school principals in achieving the fourth goal of the sustainable development goals attributed to the difference in the gender variable ( males). Considering the results, the study recommended holding periodic courses to promote principals’ awareness of the requirements of employing the fourth concept of sustainable development and to ensure its further activation in Jordanian schools.   Keywords: Fourth goal, sustainable development, Principals  

Fill the Gap between Law and Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Dustin Kuan-Hsiung Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Fishery Governance

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) clearly address the difference as well as recognize the correlations among seventeen sustainable development dimensions. The SDGs also play an important role for the international community to pay attention to our future living. Taking oceans for instance, they are the biggest ecosystems on our planet, and their health are essential to our survival. In terms of conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resource under SDG 14, several targets were agreed upon by the UN member States to help guide decision-making with regard to oceans, such as conserving marine and coastal areas in agreement with international and national laws and using the latest scientific information. This article mainly focuses on the matters of conserving and managing international fishery resources. It also addresses the issues between international law and global governance with perspectives on the implementation of SDG 14. This article concludes that in order to effectively implement international fishery laws and to reach the targets that SDGs have postulated, eliminating the commercial benefits might be the necessary consideration in filling the gap between international fishery law and fishery governance.

History, Heritage and Sustainable Development: A Position Statement on the Scottish Highlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
S. Karly Kehoe ◽  
Chris Dalglish
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Position Statement ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
Rural World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Crucial Part

Evidence of how history and culture have been or should be harnessed to promote sustainability in remote and rural communities is mounting. To be sustainable, development must come from within, it must serve future generations as well as those in the present and it must attend to the vitality of culture, society, the economy and the environment. Historical research has an important contribution to make to sustainability, especially if undertaken collaboratively, by challenging and transcending the boundaries between disciplines and between the professional researchers, communities and organisations which serve and work with them. The Sustainable Development Goals’ motto is ‘leaving no one behind’, and for the 17 Goals to be met, there must be a dramatic reshaping of the ways in which we interact with each other and with the environment. Enquiry into the past is a crucial part of enabling communities, in all their shapes and sizes, to develop in sustainable ways. This article considers the rural world and posits that historical enquiry has the potential to deliver insights into the world in which we live in ways that allow us to overcome the negative legacies of the past and to inform the planning of more positive and progressive futures. It draws upon the work undertaken with the Landscapes and Lifescapes project, a large partnership exploring the historic links between the Scottish Highlands and the Caribbean, to demonstrate how better understandings of the character and consequences of previous development might inform future development in ways that seek to tackle injustices and change unsustainable ways of living. What we show is how taking charge of and reinterpreting the past is intrinsic to allowing the truth (or truths) of the present situation to be brought to the surface and understood, and of providing a more solid platform for overcoming persistent injustices.

National Human Rights Institutions and Sustainable Development with Specific Reference to Selected African Examples

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mubangizi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
National Human ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
National Human Rights Institutions

That National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) play an important role in the protection and promotion of human rights is a well-known fact. This has been widely acknowledged by the United Nations (UN). Also well-known is the fact that several African countries have enacted new constitutions during the last two to three decades. One of the most salient features of those new constitutions is that they establish NHRIs, among other things. Given their unique role and mandate, these NHRIs can and do play an important role in the realisation of the sustainable development goals contained in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Adopting a case study approach, this article explores the role NHRIs have played in the promotion and protection of human rights in selected African countries and implications for sustainable development in those countries. The main argument is that there are several lessons African countries can learn from each other on how their NHRIs can more meaningfully play that role. Accordingly, best practice and comparative lessons are identified and it is recommended that NHRIs can contribute to sustainable development more meaningfully if they can make themselves more relevant, credible, legitimate, efficient and effective.

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