UNU-MERIT Blog Governments worldwide have pledged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. But given the scale of the task, not even national governments can manage alone. This has sparked a new phenomenon: whereby non-governmental players – from…
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From cyclones in India to protests in France: Why systemic shocks need ‘solution design’ Published as UNU-MERIT Blog and republished in several newspapers Wonder how a social movement in France and a cyclone in India could ever have parallels?…
UNU-MERIT Blog in 2015 For universal sanitation coverage, the formulation of the sustainable development goals (SDG) represents a very positive step forward. It is a far cry from that of the ‘Millennium Development Goals, where the issue of sanitation coverage…