ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC SAFE GROUNDWATER SOURCES IN BAUCHI STATE NIGERIA: A BASELINE STATUS FOR MONITORING PROGRESS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 6

The performance status of access to safe water sources in a community is determined by the percentage of the population using domestic water sources that meet international standards. Nigeria achieved a total of about 67% of the population with access to safe water sources by 2015 at the end of the period of the Millennium Development Goals. Ensuring universal access to safe and affordable drinking water for all requires investment inadequate infrastructure, this requirement led to the investigation of facilities currently available in Bauchi State of Nigeria. A baseline survey was conducted in the State towards monitoring progress on development goals, the baseline survey covered safe water sources and health facilities in State. It was found that Dambam Local Government Area recorded the highest access of 60.6% of the population with access to safe water sources, 33.33% of the population in Bauchi Local Government Area has access to public safe water sources while the lowest access recorded 5.26% in Toro Local Government Area. The functionality status of installed safe water sources in the State is currently low; Bauchi Local Government Area recorded a functionality status of 46% for the public motorized schemes and 66% functionality status for the handpump equipped boreholes. It was recommended that in working towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal number 6, massive repair and rehabilitation exercise is required to be carried out on non-functional water supply sources in the State to improve the access to safe water sources.

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

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13084247 ◽

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.

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

Sebatik ◽

10.46984/sebatik.v22i2.316 ◽

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.

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

International Review for the Sociology of Sport ◽

10.1177/1012690217752651 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 54 (7) ◽

pp. 793-812 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

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.

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Evaluation of parasitic contamination of local potable water sources in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Tropical Freshwater Biology ◽

10.4314/tfb.v27i2.3 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 31 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

V.A. Pam ◽

A. Ombugadu ◽

V.A. Adejoh ◽

A.A. Idris ◽

D.D. Pam ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Potable Water ◽

Water Sources ◽

Local Government Area

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OCTOBER 11, 2016: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL SAVE GIRL CHILD & EDUCATE HER

International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH ◽

10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i10.2016.2497 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (10) ◽

pp. 97-106

Author(s):

Amrit Patel

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Millennium Development Goals ◽

Sustainable Development Goal ◽

Girl Child ◽

Development Goal ◽

Specific Policy ◽

Development Goals ◽

Women And Girls ◽

The United Nations ◽

Development Perspective

Woman is the procreator and the mother of tomorrow shaping the destiny of civilization. For a woman, pregnancy is the most delighted event but in India in some cases the birth of a girl child is a gloomy and despair event and perhaps the gravest concern facing humanity. The United Nations has been observing each year on 8th March “International Women’s Day since 1975 to achieve specified mandate enshrined in its resolution. Subsequently, in order to focus undivided attention to girl child the United Nations, since 2012, has been observing 11th October each year as “International Day of Girl Child”. Acknowledging the significance of the girl child India went ahead and has been observing 24th January each year since 2008 “National Girl Child Day” & National Nutrition Week from September 1-7 since 1982 . It is against this background, this development perspective article briefly highlights the pathetic scenario of girl child worldwide & in India specifically despite the implementation of specific policy & programs in India and suggests strategy to achieve the goal “ Save the girl child & Educate the girl” as a part of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal-4 [“Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls “by 2030] when India could not achieve UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015 in this regard.

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Awareness of Glaucoma in Olorunda Local Government Area, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria

Ophthalmology Research An International Journal ◽

10.9734/or/2021/v14i230190 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 34-40

Author(s):

C. O. Adeoti ◽

E. A. Abioye Kuteyi ◽

B. V. Olomola ◽

O. Adejumo

Keyword(s):

Family History ◽

Local Government ◽

Tertiary Education ◽

Open Angle Glaucoma ◽

Public Awareness ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Positive Family History ◽

The State ◽

Local Government Area ◽

History Of

Purpose: The commonest type of glaucoma called chronic open angle glaucoma is a silent disease and patients are usually diagnosed late in the disease. Public awareness programs must be actively done to enable a reduction of late detection of the disease and level of awareness must be assessed regularly to appraise the programs. The aim of this study was to assess the level of awareness of the people following the several annual glaucoma week programs we held in the state. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was done in Osogbo local Government Area (LGA) over six months to assess the awareness of glaucoma following a five-year screening and public health education on glaucoma during the annual World glaucoma week in the state. The interviewer-assisted questionnaire was administered to 279 participants. Obtained data included demography such as age, sex, level of education, occupation, religion, state of origin, knowledge of glaucoma and its treatment, family history of glaucoma and so on. The data were entered and analyzed using SPSS version 21 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). Descriptive statistics was used to analyze demographic data, and cross-tabulations with chi-square were used in comparing variables. Statistical significance was set at P<0.05. Results: Two hundred and seventy-nine people were involved in the study. Many, 192 (68.8%) were aware of glaucoma. Thirty-nine participants (14.0%) had a family history of glaucoma and 63 (22.6%) felt the cause of glaucoma is an act of God. Two hundred and one (72.0%) had tertiary education. Tertiary education was found to be a statistically significant factor associated with glaucoma. Thirty-three (84.6%) of the 39 participants that had a positive family history of glaucoma were aware of glaucoma blindness. Out of participants that claimed to know how to treat glaucoma, eight (5.3%) felt it should be conservatively managed and nothing should be used. Conclusion: The World glaucoma week has yielded results but more efforts must be put in place to increase awareness and knowledge of the populace on the nature of glaucoma. Tertiary education is an important factor in glaucoma awareness. The government must ensure everyone is educated up to tertiary level. Glaucoma patients and their acquaintances may be used in increasing awareness.

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

10.2196/preprints.8173 ◽

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.

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Hegemonial Evaluation of Importance of Women Education and their Socio Economic Development in Fika Local Government Area , Yobe State, Nigeria

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal ◽

10.14738/assrj.69.6176 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (9) ◽

pp. 166-171

Author(s):

Umar Saleh Baba ◽

Blessing Ijeoma Anumaka

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Local Government ◽

Total Population ◽

The State ◽

Local Government Area ◽

Interview Guide ◽

Social And Economic Development ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

The Relationship ◽

Correlation Design

The paper discussed the importance of women education and the socio economic development in Fika local government area of Yobe state, Nigeria. The paper focused on the concept of women education, the concept of socio-economic development and the importance of women education in socio-economic development. This study employed quantitative approach with descriptive correlation design and also the total population of 66901 and the sample size of 382 respondents while questionnaire and interview guide were used as research instruments to collect required data.The study also used sample of 382 respondents, frequency and percentage techniques, means and standard deviation and finally, Pearson linear correlation co-efficient (PLCC) to establish the relationship between women education and the element of socio economic development in Fika local government area of Yobe state. The findings of this study revealed that there is positive and very significant relationship between women education and their household income level, and a positive relationship exist with standard of living, economic development and women education but this is not significant. The recommendation of this study is that all effort to empower women should be directed toward educational empowerment in the state as this is significant to overall economic growth in the state. This is because women education in terms of socio-economic development have significant effect on their family,social and economic development of a nation as a whole..

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