Global Development

BAMYAN, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 8, 2021: Tenth-grade pupils attend a lesson at a secondary school for girls. Upon the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) declared the establishment of its control over the whole country on September 6, a new government formed a day later. Among other reforms, the Taliban have also introduced a number of restrictions concerning education and employment for girls and women. Alexandra Kovalskaya/TASS.No use Russia.

Echidna Global Scholars: Better learning opportunities and life outcomes for girls and young women

Jennifer L. O’Donoghue, Nangyalai Attal, Arundhuti Gupta, Edem Dorothy Ossai, and Tran Thi Ngoc Tran

Thursday, December 23, 2021

A customer conducts a mobile money transfer, known as M-Pesa, at a Safaricom agent stall in downtown Nairobi, Kenya October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Digital cash transfer infrastructure

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Michael Faye, and Cina Lawson

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Women carries mangrove saplings for plantation in the riverside in the Sundarbans. (Photo by Sudip Maiti/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Investing in nature to protect and benefit people

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Rosina Bierbaum, and Richard Florizone

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Stack of business newspapers

Business journalism as a lever for SDG accountability

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Matthew Bishop, and Raj Kumar

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

A tractor works in a field in Qiqihar city, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, 1 July 2020.No Use China. No Use France.

Optimizing the “True Cost/True Value” of food

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Jane Maland Cady, and Pradeep Prabhala

Thursday, December 9, 2021

A sex worker holds a placard during a gathering to mark the "World Day Against Trafficking in Persons" organized by "Maiti Nepal", a non-profit organization in Nepal dedicated to help the victims of human trafficking and orphanage home for HIV-affected children and women. The "World Day Against Trafficking in Persons" is celebrated worldwide on July 30th. (Photo by Sunil Pradhan / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

The fight against forced labor and modern slavery

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Kristen Leanderson Abrams, and Carsten Stendevad

Thursday, December 2, 2021

A woman wearing a mask as a preventive measure against the spread of covid-19 walks past a sign advertising UN's 'Sustainable development goals' in Ginza.The State of Emergency in Tokyo will last until end of June 2021. (Photo by Stanislav Kogiku / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Getting the world unstuck on the Sustainable Development Goals

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

17 Rooms podcast

Introducing 17 Rooms, a podcast about the people driving a new approach for the Sustainable Development Goals

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Monday, November 15, 2021

Balloon in the shape of the number 1

Sustainable Development Spotlight: First anniversary of the Center for Sustainable Development

John W. McArthur

Friday, October 29, 2021

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN -9.26.2019 The event was dedicated to the Global Week on the Global Climate Strike and International Climate Action Summit .March on Sustainable Development Goals

What’s next for the world?

John W. McArthur

What Could Go Right?

Thursday, October 7, 2021