Transforming global development
In recent years, criticism of the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, centered on the lack of consultation, which resulted in a set of goals that aimed primarily at sub-Saharan Africa, but applied...
View ArticleSupporting Timor-Leste and the Pacific in UN negotiations
Following on from its advisory support to the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the United Nations during its participation in the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable...
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Aiming for goals
A distant debate on the global agenda for sustainable development may seem far removed from the day-to-day realities of Pacific island countries, but it is an important discussion and one which will...
View ArticleThe future we want
This year is a critical one for our planet—it is the year we, as a global community, will collectively agree on a post-2015 development agenda and adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals in...
View ArticleFinancing for Development: this year’s big debate
More and better financing for development will be required in order to end poverty by 2030 and achieve the proposed Sustainable Development Goals. The UN and member countries are currently working to...
View ArticleWhy sustainable development is impossible in most Pacific islands
In the late 1980s, while I was in Pohnpei interviewing people for news about the then-relatively new Federated States of Micronesia, I had the good fortune to connect with former Yap Governor John...
View ArticleNew goals already transforming our world
UN member states agreed, on Sunday night, to a new international development agenda to replace the eight Millennium Development Goals that expire in December. The 17 new sustainable development goals...
View ArticleDonors reinvent the resilience ‘wheel’ for Pacific islands
Asian Development Bank President Takehiko Nakao delivered an important development policy speech at the University of the South Pacific late last month during his first visit to Fiji. The event got off...
View ArticleCharting a new course – the new Global Goals
World leaders have adopted a new set of Global Goals ‘to end poverty, fix climate change and put us on the path towards sustainable development’. Three years in the making, the new goals set an...
View ArticleCorruption undermining sustainable development
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat last week issued its final assessment of its 14 member nations’ progress in meeting the seven Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose 15-year lifespan has now...
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