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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

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Preview of 10532IIED

How to meet the Millennium Development Goals in Urban Areas

Publication, 01 April 2005

Preview of 10566IIED

Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres

Publication, 01 January 2006

Preview of 10745IIED

Key sanitation issues: commitments, coverage, choice, context, co-production, costs, capital, city-wide coverage

Publication, 01 July 2015

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Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future

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September 2015: on the eve of the United Nations summit to agree the 2030 Agenda, a film introducing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is projected onto the UN headquarters building (Photo: UN Photo/Cia Pak)

Effective evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals

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Black grouse fight in Vaala, Finland. The country is committed to protecting biodiversity under its implementation of the sustainable development goals (Photo: Markus Varesvuo/NPL/Barcroft)

Will the UK be left behind on sustainable development?

Insight, 25 July 2016

Building an embankment in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh has been forced to learn how to cope with the realities of climate change (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)

Does "leave no-one behind" risk too narrow a focus?

Insight, 01 March 2016

Kenya: Farmers visit a crop trial site to select the best sorghum varieties for climate resilience. Most climate change adaptation is done day-to-day by farmers, pastoralists, fishers and the urban poor. (Photo: S. Kilungo, CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The SDGs must carry us beyond Paris to 2030

Insight, 10 September 2015

IIED produced an animation to raise awareness of the SDGs and the potential of the new development agenda (Image: IIED/Hands Up)

Global goals for sustainable development

Insight, 02 September 2015

The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)

Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group

Article, 03 August 2015

A community sanitation facility in Jinja, Uganda (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'

Insight, 18 November 2014

Lushoto, Tanzania: Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into agroforestry. Here a tree nursery group discusses the challenges and opportunities (Photo: P Kimeli/CCAFS)

Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'

Insight, 04 November 2014

Meceburi Forest, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

The Musketeers of development

Insight, 16 July 2014

Street scene, Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Fareena Chanda

Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?

Insight, 09 July 2014

People need at least US$50 to survive for a month in Hanoi. This is twice the official urban poverty line (Photo via Commons Wikimedia/Google licence)

If we don't count the poor, the poor don't count

Insight, 12 June 2014

Two forest farmers from Ghana, including the head of a local community forest group, alongside some cocoa beans (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework

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Rosebell Kagumire was among the delegates at the conference discussing the post-2015 development framework: priorities for the least developed countries, in late January (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Media missing from UN drive to engage millions on post-2015 development agenda

Insight, 04 February 2014

Wilton Park is the venue for a conference on sustainable development goals from January 29-31 (Photo: Wilton Park)

Post-2015 development framework: priorities for LDCs – coverage from Wilton Park

Event on 29 January 2015

A line of Christmas trees. Photo: Brett Flanders (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Sustainable development requires an infusion of love

Insight, 20 December 2013

Construction workers build a hotel in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Credit: Overseas Development Institute / Antony Robbins (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en_GB)

Time to hear LDC voices on Post-2015 development goals

Insight, 10 December 2013

There is no government-provided water connection in the Shivaji Nagar slum area of Raipur. Under UN definitions, a household has "improved provision" for water even if it only has access to a public tap or standpipe. (Photo: indiawaterportal.org, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Setting the bar too low: is there really progress on UN development goals?

Insight, 03 December 2013

A mom and her newborn baby at the Maternal & Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

New international development goals: score or miss?

Insight, 05 June 2013

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Think-tank alliance identifies eight shifts needed for sustainability

News, 12 March 2013

A man carries buckets filled with water from a water tanker in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Basic service provision shouldn’t just be a money maker

Insight, 08 October 2012

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