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  • The Business Case for Sustainable Development Is Real and Growing

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 9, 2017  //  By Natalie Co & Tiffany Lin

    In 2000, the United Nations established the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the goal of creating a global partnership for development. The formation of the MDGs created a foundation for collaboration and encouraged cross-sector partnerships to reduce poverty but also promote issues like environmental sustainability and gender equality. To carry on momentum from the MDGs, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established in 2015 to further encourage partnerships between civil society organizations, the private sector, academic institutions, and more. Increased private sector engagement in development is a major goal of the SDGs – and we would argue that it is crucial to their success.

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  • For India, Achieving the Next Generation of Maternal Health Goals Requires New Approaches

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  March 23, 2017  //  By Francesca Cameron
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    Achieving the next generation of maternal health goals in India, which accounts for almost 15 percent of maternal deaths around the world each year, will require innovative new approaches to stubborn problems.

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  • ‘The Lancet’ on Achieving Maternal Health Goals in the SDG Era: Tackling Diversity and Divergence

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  November 29, 2016  //  By Nancy Chong
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    Between 1990 and 2015, there was an incredible 44 percent decrease in global maternal mortality rates. But these impressive gains still fell short of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the global maternal mortality ratio by three quarters.

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  • 5 Focal Points for U.S. Global Water Strategy (And Submit Your Own Too)

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    November 3, 2016  //  By Ken Conca
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    Have something to say about the U.S. government’s approach to water around the world? Here’s your chance. The Department of State has issued a public call for comment on its global water strategy. An open session was held in Washington last Friday, but written comments can be submitted until November 12.

    For inspiration, here are points made by our own (and American University’s own) Ken Conca, edited for space:

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  • New Approach to Sanitation May Help Fast-Growing Urban Areas Achieve SDGs

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 20, 2016  //  By Eric Wilburn
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    In the late 1990s, world leaders came together to create the Millennium Development Goals – time-bound, quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty and human health and well-being. Notable among them was to “halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to water and sanitation.”

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  • Africa Has the Demography for Dividends, But Will it Get the Policy Right?

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 28, 2016  //  By Eunice Mueni
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    In recent years, the demographic dividend has garnered enormous traction in African policy circles, and leaders and policymakers have begun to see it as a strategy for achieving their economic growth targets.

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  • New Approaches to Addressing Gender Inequality in Global Development

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 15, 2016  //  By Sreya Panuganti
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    In principle, development organizations and donors have known that gender dynamics affect the success or failure of their efforts for some time. In practice, overturning cultural mores while at the same time improving health outcomes, incomes, or food security can be difficult. [Video Below]

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  • The Future of the Sustainable Development Goals

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    From the Wilson Center  //  May 18, 2016  //  By Gracie Cook

    Iron and Steel giant ISKOR's Vanderbijl Park refinery. Farm land bordering the industrial area.

    “As we go forward, we will discover that 2015 was when we really started getting serious about transdisciplinary challenges inherent in sustainable development,” said Melinda Kimble, senior vice president for programs at the UN Foundation, at the Wilson Center on April 13. [Video Below]

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