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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work on the action needed to accelerate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Research highlights the importance of local knowledge, and the power of grassroots organisations and local governments, in creating positive action towards the goals.

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Pakistan's Sarhad Rural Support programme deals with constant uncertainty and disruptive events. Here goods are delivered to flood victims in Chitral (Photo: Gul Hamaad Farooqui, Creative Commons via Flickr)

What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change?

Insight, 26 January 2016

Surveys of the priorities of the private sector often ignore vital informal economies, such as this one in Hanoi (Photo: Bill Vorley/IIED)

Shaking up the private sector

Insight, 22 January 2016

An Ethiopian government delegation learns about energy innovations in a climate smart village in Kenya. Ethiopia's government hopes to combine climate resilience with economic growth (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?

Insight, 18 January 2016

A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)

The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring

Insight, 07 January 2016

Women harvest their rice crop in Meceburi forest reserve, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

Food demand and forests in sub-Saharan Africa

Active Project

A new map produced by IIED shows seven types of innovative governance. Click on the image to see the map (Image: IIED)

Driving change by supporting action at the local level

Insight, 24 November 2015

Plan Vivo partners at a conference in Sweden commit to actively engage in the implementation and accountability of the SDGs (Photo: Plan Vivo Foundation)

The SDGs speak and we like what we hear

Insight, 15 October 2015

Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation

Insight, 12 October 2015

Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world

Insight, 09 October 2015

The Potato Park, Peru, which hosted a previous meeting of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Image: IIED)

Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops

News, 06 October 2015

Community participation, with a strong focus on women, such as this women's savings group in Southern India, is vital to develop slum-friendly cities (Photo: Maria Andersson/Individuell Människohjälp, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

What might slum dwellers want from the SDGs?

Insight, 05 October 2015

Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces in Southwestern China have responded to climatic adversity by innovating to increase productivity using less water (Image: IIED)

Why listen to and support the most vulnerable?

Insight, 02 October 2015

Among IIED's work on ways to ensure that the benefits of energy systems reach the people who currently lack access to energy are energy labs in Tanzania, explains Ben Garside (Image: IIED)

Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven

News, 24 September 2015

Our successful animation was devised to popularise the Sustainable Development Goals. But that doesn't mean we didn't make mistakes (Image: IIED/Hands Up)

Global goals, global audience – how well did we score?

Insight, 18 September 2015

A fish market in Vĩnh Trường, Vietnam. More than 300 million people are directly or indirectly employed by the fisheries sector, and must be addressed by the oceans SDG (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

A sustainable ocean by 2030

Insight, 14 September 2015

The focus of Green Economy Coalition convener Oliver Greenfield is on the SDG targets and indicators, and how that can lead to a green economy (Image: IIED)

Sustainable goals for a sustainable green economy

News, 11 September 2015

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

A typhoon hits shanties in Manila. Urban governments, which are already struggling to provide basic infrastructure services, also need to build resilience to climate change (Photo: Ernie Penaredondo/Global Water Partnership, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?

Insight, 08 September 2015

Essam Yassin Mohammed argues that Goal 14 cannot be seen in isolation from the other Sustainable Development Goals (Image: IIED)

Understanding the SDGs: the importance of Goal 14

News, 07 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

A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum

Insight, 28 August 2015

In a video interview, IIED chief economist Paul Steele argues that the universal nature of the goals show that 'development' extends beyond aid (Image: IIED)

A step change in our approach to development

News, 27 August 2015

A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)

Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem

Insight, 26 August 2015

Strategy and Learning Group director Tom Bigg gives an overview of the SDGs (Image: IIED)

Understanding the SDGs: Tom Bigg

News, 21 August 2015

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