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Energy equity: will the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative make a difference
… modern energy services may not be a Millennium~Development Goal (MDG) but without it, sustainable development, indeed the MDGs …
Publication, 01 May 2012
The need for shelter finance improvements
… is its inability to address access to sanitation and water (MDG targets in their own right) and secure tenure. Although community …
Publication, 01 July 2012
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Sanitation and drainage in cities II
… areas. Only one of the countries covered in these two issues met its MDG target. Some even saw their urban populations’ access to improved …
Publication, 01 October 2015
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Conservation with social justice? The role of community conserved areas in achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Publication, 01 August 2005
With water shortages in Lebanon, many households have water storage facilities
Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis
… provide the imperative for countries to collect data on water access. MDG data was aggregated to the national level, so it is not detailed … them to analyse water quality with some degree of accuracy. Although MDG reporting suggested that 97.7 per cent of people in Lebanon had …
Insight, 19 February 2018
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Addressing Climate Change in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
… continues to be a pressing issue, the world managed to achieve MDG target 1a (halving the proportion of people living below $1.25 per …
Publication, 01 February 2014
Two community leaders prepare service contracts for a novel container-based sanitation service before installing toilets in users' homes in Cap Haitien, Haiti (Photo: Felipe Jacome)
Learning from the MDGs: improved sanitation and drainage in cities
… The water MDG was widely acknowledged as the furthest from delivering against its …
News, 07 October 2015
Water kiosks in Zambia provide safe drinking water for poor households in peri urban areas of Chipata. Careful consideration of the affordability of water services for the urban poor is vital to provide universal and equitable access to safe and affordable water for everyone by 2030 (Photo: SuSanA Secretariat, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Improved water access unaffordable for urban poor
… Millennium Development Goal (MDG) assessments have demonstrated that access to an improved water … (PDF)  some regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, failed to meet the MDG target. In the countries we studied, a significant increase in the …
Insight, 22 March 2016
Street in Karachi, Pakistan with overflowing sewage.
The real issue is universal access to affordable basic services
… recognise their critical flaw — global leaders have endorsed partial MDG targets.  Halving the proportion of people with inadequate incomes, … people without safe water and basic sanitation are just some of the MDG targets set for achievement between 1990 and 2015. Would these … in urban areas in need of assistance – by 2020 would mean that this MDG goal would be achieved on paper. But what about the lives of the …
Insight, 14 August 2012
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Policy That Works For Biodiversity and Poverty Reduction: The ANDES Community Initiative Component of the Scoping Study on Biodiversity Governance in Peru
… on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) should be addressed together, recognizing the fundamentally …
Publication, 01 July 2005