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Leave no one behind
The commitment to 'leave no one behind' is a pledge from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Leave no one behind: assessing policy choices
At the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals lies a promise to ‘leave no one behind’. IIED worked with partners in Asia and Africa to ask what the phrase means to different groups and what action is needed to turn it from rhetoric to reality
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Bloomberg and public health: did he get it right?
While welcoming the support from Michael Bloomberg for a new city-focused global public health initiative, David Satterthwaite and Sarah Colenbrander raise concerns about what is not included
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The hilsa fishing ban: good for the fish, but good for the fisher?
Seasonal fishing bans are helping to recover stocks of Bangladesh's national fish, the hilsa. Bigger fish are fetching better prices and – from traders to retailers − many people along the value chain are benefiting. But a new IIED study shows how one group is slipping through the net: the fishermen and women
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Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
Dave Steinbach identifies three approaches to help ensure small-scale fishers are not left behind in ambitious new development agendas
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Will the UK be left behind on sustainable development?
The global goals, which UN members signed up to last year, are for all countries, not just poor ones. How is the UK going to implement them?
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Ten essentials for the New Urban Agenda in one page
Ten concise points respond to the current draft of Habitat III's New Urban Agenda which is lengthy, dense and gives too little attention to the key roles of local government and civil society
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Poverty Environment Partnership issues call to action on 2030 Agenda
A new report urges structural reforms to end extreme poverty and tackle climate change and the loss of environmental assets during the next 15 years
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Positioning the SDGs within the politics of national development
Reconciling diverse visions of sustainable development will be key to SDG progress
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Untangling the net: what does 'leave no one behind' mean for fishers?
The ambition of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets, according to the introductory text, is to 'leave no one behind'. But what does it mean in practice? This blog aims to explain this by focusing on the small-scale fishery sector in a developing country – specifically using the case of a fishing community in the Lower Meghna Basin in Bangladesh
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How are the LDCs defining a new sustainable development agenda?
IIED talks to development experts from around the globe to find out how the Least Developed Countries are working to define new ways forward for sustainable development
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2016 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
IIED was involved in three side events at the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development from 11-20 July, 2016
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An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
Taking an urban approach can help identify who is at risk of 'being left behind' and how this can be avoided
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Unpacking what we mean by 'leave no one behind'
'Leave no one behind' is emerging as a central principle of the Sustainable Development Goals. In practice it will be interpreted in a number of ways
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Does "leave no-one behind" risk too narrow a focus?
"Leave no-one behind" has become a key phrase in interpreting the Sustainable Development Goals, but we should think carefully about what it implies
