Challenges Of Sustainable Development Goals Research Articles

Gender and Culture Inclusivity in the Story of Hope Fashion Collection.

Discrimination against minority groups often still occurs and becomes a global problem. The problem of discrimination, such as minority gender and cultural minorities, is a social issue that needs to be exposed to get awareness. Inclusivity is one of the methods used to increase awareness of issues of gender and cultural discrimination. Inclusivity is one of the discourses to answer the challenges of sustainable development goals related to the topic of gender equality and reducing inequality. Fashion is a branch of design that often presents the context of inclusivity through works. The discourse of glocalization in the fashion industry also provides an opportunity to raise local content related to minority culture and gender as inspiration and communication through fashion works. The Story of Hope collection is an example of a fashion creation with the theme of gender and minority culture. The problem discussed in this paper is how gender and cultural inclusivity communicated through fashion stories of hope. The study applied qualitative methods with primary data collection techniques through observation and interviews. The secondary data obtained through literature studies. The theory used in analyzing the data uses a Barthes semiotic approach and postmodern aesthetic of bricolage. The Story of Hope collection is a fashion creation that adapts gender-fluid trends and applies traditional fabrics to represent culture in contemporary clothing. Story of Hope collection can be used as a communication tool in conveying inclusive discourse through its constituent visual elements.

Global UN 2030 agenda: How can Science, Technology and Innovation accelerate the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals for All?

The adoption of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) with 167 targets by the United Nations member states in 2015 emphasizes the critical role of science, technology and innovation (STI) in addressing sustainability challenges, including poverty, hunger, health, employment, climate change and energy. However, STI plays a limited role in the context of the global agenda of 2030 and for achieving SDGs in low- and middle-income countries. The perspectives of relevant stakeholder groups (i.e., policymakers, academia, donors, private sector, and non-governmental organizations) were assessed through an international survey on the role of STI in tackling SDG challenges in three main themes: agriculture, health, energy, and environment. Our findings reveal that human resource capacity on STI is still fragile in many developing countries, including some middle-income economies, suggesting that to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1, 2, 3, 7, and 13, it is necessary to strengthen the educational system, increase investment in research and development programs, implement staff retention policies, foster collaboration, and provide adequate infrastructure and expertise for the required skills and competencies to promote cooperation in science, technology, and innovation (STI).

Examining the Role and Challenges of Sustainable Development Goals for the Universities in the United Arab Emirates

This study aims to explore the potential role of higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates in driving the world’s progress toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objectives of the study also include examining the challenges faced by the universities while integrating the SDG into their systems. This study adopted a mixed-method study design by conducting interviews with deans (15) and a survey with faculty members (350) of the universities in the UAE. The most pressing challenges reported were difficulties in the identification of priorities for the most impactful SDGs for universities, reduction of the environmental footprints of universities, the lack of sufficient collaboration and communication among universities, tracking the progress of SDGs in the absence of reporting protocols, impediments to participation from cultural and societal factors, bureaucratic hurdles, and political and economic influence over prioritization of SDGs in universities’ strategic planning. However, governmental change in economic and energy policy was highlighted as a favorable measure to accelerate the adoption of SDGs by the universities. Additionally, the results show that the scope of research and collaborative projects at the universities are limited and do not bring about any substantial change in society.

Values and Multi-stakeholder Dialog for Business Transformation in Light of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The objective of this article is to create an understanding of how the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) can be used to steer stakeholder engagement for transformative change, meeting global challenges, and navigate a new business-societal practice driven by a values-based business model. The article is a conceptual study with case studies of the role that the SDGs play in multi-stakeholder dialog via the kind of sustainable business-societal practice that takes corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the next level, where it is embedded in a values-based business model, creating a new meaning to effect real business-societal transformation. Multi-stakeholder dialog implies interactive and communicative engagement with the full range of stakeholders in order to create value for all, employing a societal perspective and using the value network as a basis for effective decision-making. We explain our methodological approach by presenting multi-stakeholder dialog in practice, in the form of multiple case studies. These empirical settings consisted of two values-driven privately owned companies with a strong reporting mechanism and a clear transformation agenda based on the SDG challenges: IKEA and Löfbergs. The empirical study provides the basis for our proposed model. This article makes an original contribution to the study of the use of SDGs in management and service research. It investigates steering and navigating processes in specific contexts in order to determine what should be subject to legal enforcement and what comprises moral and/or ethical value, particularly at the societal level.

Phenomenology of health service evaluation at the indonesian national police in responding to the challenges of sustainable development goals (SDGs) 2030

Health problems in the 21st century are generally caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, hypertension, cancer, diabetes mellitus and obesity that hit many countries, especially in developing economies. This also happened to Civil Servants at the National Police (CSNP) so that it resulted in a decrease in the number of personnel in the Indonesian National Police (Polri) agencies who died during their service (early death) and had implications for the ideal number of future Police. The purpose of this study is to elaborate and evaluate the health service program for CSNP in order to answer the challenges of developing superior human resources in the Polri environment. The method used is to conduct an exploratory analysis of the annual report data of Polri personnel, followed by a qualitative study (phenomenological method) to obtain information about the lifestyle of CSNP who died during their service due to NCDS. The results showed that CSNP who experienced premature death in the 2015 to 2020 range reached 977 to 1700 people every year, and the trend continued to increase.

Implementations and Challenges of Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Nations: In the Case of South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia

The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementations and challenges of SDGs in South Gondar. To attain this purpose, survey questionnaires were administered on a sample of 176 employees. While to the qualitative analysis interview and document observations were used. The study employed mixed methods research approach of parallel concurrent research design. For quantitative data analysis, one sample t-test, Pearson correlation and hierarchical linear regression were used. To the qualitative data, thematic analysis was employed. The study found that the SDG implementation in the study region was "moderate", with average differences between institutions. The major challenges facing the implementation of SDGs are unrealistic goal setting, lack of political commitment, lack of participation, lack of clear policy guide, lack of synergy, lack of capability and over emphasis on one pillar of development. This indicated that both key identified institutional challenges and goal setting characteristics determine the implementation of the SDGs in the study area. Based on this, the study recommends that the study area should set policy goals that are implementable. There should be also participation of the target beneficiaries in the SDGs implementation.

Genome Editing in Crop Plant Research-Alignment of Expectations and Current Developments.

The rapid development of genome editing and other new genomic techniques (NGT) has evoked manifold expectations on purposes of the application of these techniques to crop plants. In this study, we identify and align these expectations with current scientific development. We apply a semi-quantitative text analysis approach on political, economic, and scientific opinion papers to disentangle and extract expectations towards the application of NGT-based plants. Using the sustainable development goals (SDG) of the 2030 agenda as categories, we identify contributions to food security or adaptation to climatic changes as the most frequently mentioned expectations, accompanied by the notion of sustainable agriculture and food systems. We then link SDG with relevant plant traits and review existing research and commercial field trials for genome-edited crop plants. For a detailed analysis we pick as representative traits drought tolerance and resistance against fungal pathogens. Diverse genetic setscrews for both traits have been identified, modified, and tested under laboratory conditions, although there are only a few in the field. All in all, NGT-plants that can withstand more than one stressor or different environments are not documented in advanced development states. We further conclude that developing new plants with modified traits will not be sufficient to reach food security or adaption to climatic changes in a short time frame. Further scientific development of sustainable agricultural systems will need to play an important role to tackle SDG challenges, as well.

Ewolucja trendów i zagrożeń w konsumpcji żywności w świetle celów zrównoważonego rozwoju

Objective: To identify the main hazards and threats related to food consumption in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Research Design & Methods: The study uses secondary data analysis, including of official reports and statistics, critical analysis of the literature, comparative analysis, synthesis and logical reasoning.Findings: Important trends include mindful and conscious consumption, eco-consumption, food sharing, frugality, freeganism, personalised and hedonistic consumption, and climatarianism. The main hazards/threats discovered include difficulties population face in feeding themselves, the growing number of immunocompromised people, climate change, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and other pathologies in the food market, the presence of allergens and the lack of a food safety culture.Implications / Recommendations: Analysis of the postulates contained in the SDGs makes it possible to confirm their convergence with the need to ensure food and food safety. Threats in this area often give rise to trends. In the light of the challenges of SDGs as well as pandemic and post-pandemic effects, hedonistic needs and trends are important: They are connected with ensuring health and greater care for one’s own mental and physical condition. The situation in Ukraine is certainly suggests the need to develop shared and collaborative consumption.Contribution: The paper reviews and systematises trends, threats and hazards in food consumption from the perspective of individual sustainable development goals. This is the first publication of this type in Poland.

Strategy implementation for the 2030 agenda: Insights from Brazilian companies

AbstractWhile firms' engagement with Corporate Social Responsibility has been associated with positive performance impacts, little is known about the incorporation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda into business practices. Precisely, although the literature suggests that firms are pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there are limited insights on their strategy to implement them in the context of developing countries. To address this gap, we conducted a comprehensive large‐scale investigation of 2030 Agenda adoption by Brazilian companies. Accordingly, the analysis of our multicase study reveals (1) variations on the business opportunities brought by the SDGs depending on the firm position in the value chain, (2) which SDGs and target stakeholders are addressed through corporate policies and practices, (3) the different ways firms embrace the SDGs to pursue ambidexterity. Our findings clarify how firms in the developing countries interpret the institutional pressures and assemble their internal resources to respond to the SDGs challenges. Boundary conditions and policy implications are further discussed.

Food for thought: SDG challenges, corporate social responsibility and food shopping in later life

With the context of changing global and local populations and, for example, their composition and distribution, this paper offers insight to food shopping in later life with a focus on Nottingham and Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands. The work is relevant and important due to the specific population makeup of this area and the challenges in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a result of population changes/challenges. The work takes an interdisciplinary view and draws on literature from both social policy and social care and business and marketing. Using this work as a grounding, and insights to primary research from a wider study in this area, the paper offers discussion and comment on: The importance of food and food shopping in later life;Issues of, and concerns for, health, well-being, identity and community maintenance and resilience (as a direct result of the challenge to SDG achievement);The role(s) and responsibility of business from a core business and wider business/corporate responsibility perspective as a reflection of the above and findings of the work Using primary research undertaken by the authors, the paper supports findings from existing work from across social policy and care and business and management – related to the practicalities, challenges and the role of and approaches to food shopping in later life. It specifically offers insight to the efforts made by older food shoppers to maintain their independence and support their choices in a context of interdependence (e.g. within a family, community and environment). The importance social aspects of food shopping (as a counter to isolation and loneliness for example) are also identified and how, for example, the actions of business(es) may undermine the efforts (and resilience) of individuals and communities. ‘Better’ understanding of food shoppers by business and other stakeholders is promoted.

Food for thought: SDG challenges, corporate social responsibility and food shopping in later life

With the context of changing global and local populations and, for example, their composition and distribution, this paper offers insight to food shopping in later life with a focus on Nottingham and Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands. The work is relevant and important due to the specific population makeup of this area and the challenges in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a result of population changes/challenges. The work takes an interdisciplinary view and draws on literature from both social policy and social care and business and marketing. Using this work as a grounding, and insights to primary research from a wider study in this area, the paper offers discussion and comment on: the importance of food and food shopping in later life; issues of, and concerns for, health, well-being, identity and community maintenance and resilience (as a direct result of the challenge to SDG achievement); and the role(s) and responsibility of business from a core business and wider business/corporate responsibility perspective as a reflection of the above and findings of the work. Using primary research undertaken by the authors, the paper supports findings from existing work from across social policy and care and business and management – related to the practicalities, challenges and the role of and approaches to food shopping in later life. It specifically offers insight to the efforts made by older food shoppers to maintain their independence and support their choices in a context of interdependence (e.g. within a family, community and environment). The importance social aspects of food shopping (as a counter to isolation and loneliness for example) are also identified and how, for example, the actions of business(es) may undermine the efforts (and resilience) of individuals and communities. “Better” understanding of food shoppers by business and other stakeholders is promoted.

Mainstreaming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Local Development Planning: Lessons from Adentan Municipal Assembly in Ghana

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted in September 2015 represent a challenging worldwide action plan that aims to end poverty, achieve gender equality, in diverse dimensions, promote decent work among others. Global realization of the SDGs by 2030 is highly dependent on the localization and effective implementation of the goals, yet little is known about diverse perspective of SDG localization and challenges involved. It is in response to this that the study examines the magnitude to which SDGs have been integrated into local development planning using Adentan municipal as a case study. A qualitative method with an in-depth interview of 20 key informants was adopted. The study developed a conceptual framework which was used to examine Adentan municipal Assembly on SDG mainstreaming. The study also did a critical analysis of the medium-term development plan of the municipal assembly to identify how the Assembly has effectively mainstreamed the SDGs at the local level. The findings from the study revealed that the authorities are aware of the SDGs. Majority of the targets in SDGs (1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,13,14,16 and 17) have been integrated into the local development plan of the Assembly. However, SDG 7 and 15 were of no interest to the municipal. The findings further indicated that financing, low awareness of the relevance of the SDGs among the citizens in the municipality and bureaucracy are the major challenges of SDG mainstreaming at the local level. The study proposed a framework which extends the theory of change on effective SDG mainstreaming and can be added to other existing framework on SDG mainstreaming at the local level to address the challenges and needs of SDG mainstreaming for development initiative and may inform future research in mainstreaming and planning.

Optimizing Operating Parameters of a Dual E-Commerce-Retail Sales Channel in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain

Currently, many consumers prefer online shopping via e-commerce platforms because of the shopping convenience and product diversity. Meanwhile, offline retailers provide retail services to cope with the competition from e-commerce platforms. Additionally, environment protection has been regarded to be equally important as economic growth in meeting the challenges of sustainable development goals. This work uses consumer utility selection theory to form the online and offline market demand functions in a dual-channel closed-loop supply chain considering consumers’ e-commerce preferences and retail services. Then, we further reveal the optimal system sales channel and coordination contract to acquire good economic and ecological benefits. We find the following: 1) As in practice, consumers’ e-commerce preferences and retail services simultaneously affect the purchasing and sales channels. 2) Since both consumers’ e-commerce preferences and retail service quality increase as service costs decreases, the recovery rate of used products increases, which contributes to improving the ecological benefits. 3) The “Double Marginalization” problem can reduce the operating efficiency of the decentralized system. Accordingly, we design a revenue-service cost sharing contract to solve this problem in a coordinated manner, and thus increase the economic and ecological benefits of the system. Consequently, all members can obtain profits in a win-win scenario by bargaining on the revenue rates and service costs.

Sustainable Development Goals: Reaching People through Their Mother Tongue

People's languages are vitally important to them. Through language, people communicate, share meaning and experience their sense of individual and community identity. Recognizing the profound importance that people place on their languages is a core insight for tackling poverty and hunger. UNESCO: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are essentially an expansion of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The SDGs were a reaction to the weakness of the MDGs. Where the MDGs were only eight, the SDGs are seventeen. The SDGs are a new and universal set of goals, targets and indicators that UN member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and political policies over the next 15 years. The question that comes to mind when we think of the implementation and success of these SDGs is how UN member states will be able to reach the grassroots with these goals for them to be translated into reality. Mother tongue (MT) or local languages definitely have an important role to play. This paper therefore examines the role of MT or local languages in the achievement of these goals. It examines the power of language as a tool of development. Whether it is about ending hunger, promoting health, equitable quality education etc., it is important to note that language-based development is essential for meeting these goals. For each of the goals set, local languages or Mother tongue has an important role to play. These goals envisage a participatory approach to economic development and genuine participation in the development process that is dependent on two-way communication between the implementers of the SDGs and the people, this requires engaging people in the language they speak and understand i.e. the MT or local languages. MT is the language through which people have learnt how to think and how to communicate and therefore it can be harnessed to ensure that communities develop local solutions to the SDGs challenges. This paper argues that just like there is a human rights based approach to economic development, it is equally important to recognize the role of language in general and mother tongue or local languages in particular in the drive towards sustainable development goals. We argue for a language-based approach towards the SDGs in ensuring their success. In this paper we shall examine each SDG and critically analyze the role of mother tongue in their achievement.

Transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Blueprint of Bangladesh for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030

Introduction: The Sustainable Development Goals 2030, titled “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” with 17 goals and 169 targets (including 43 means of implementation) were adopted at the United Nations in September 2015. The Seventh Five Year Plan of Bangladesh (SFYP), “Accelerating Growth, Empowering Every Citizen” for the years 2016-2020, produced by General Economics Division, Planning Commission, can be regarded as the blue print for the early critical phase of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation.
 Materials & Methods: This Review Article was prepared based on updated International Newsletter, Journal and Data from Bangladesh Government Planning Commission.
 Discussion: Challenges of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 7th Plan include resource mobilization, tapping population momentum, managing unplanned urbanization, natural disasters and climate change, utilization of resources, skill development and quality education, improving competitiveness, governance, taming inequality and regional disparity. Bangladesh prepared its own post-2015 Development Agenda and contributed to the international discourse through UN.
 Conclusion: The General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission, based on a consultative process initiated in 2013, goals and targets were developed in the context of Bangladesh. Through this process, 11 goals along with 58 targets with corresponding 241 measurable indicators were proposed. Civil society in Bangladesh also produced what is described as “a people-centred, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable Post-2015 Development Agenda.” It came up with 13 Goals,50 Targets and 199 Indicators.
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A new revolution: Data revolution (the first steps of Moldova)

The new Agenda 2030 for sustainable development universally adopted by the UN in 2015 with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to fight poverty, inequality and climate change. It requires collective action at all levels, more evidence-based development policy-making, better availability of quality data and statistics, and strengthened accountability of development stakeholders, requiring in other words a “Data Revolution for Sustainable Development”. At the moment, Republic of Moldova is in process of nationalizing the SDGs with the support of UNDP.
 Since data revolution represents the process of monitoring the progress and response to SDG challenges, Moldova was part of a global initiative undertaken in 7 different countries, for mapping and inventory of the data system in each country, required for measuring the sustainable development progress. Its overall objective was to assess the availability of data and institutional modernization capacity needed to implement the post-2015 development agenda. The paper presents the steps undertaken in Moldova for mapping the situation for future localization/adaptation of SDGs to ensure their monitoring in order to achieve the post-2015 Agenda using ICT tools.

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The all-inclusive sustainable development goals: the WASH professional's guide (or should that be ‘nightmare’?)

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are now upon us. An initial reaction might be ‘too little time, too much to do’. This is, of course, somewhat dangerous as it might lead some professionals, some ministries, and some governments, to decide that nothing (or, at best, not much) can be done − after all, progress towards the sanitation target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was weak or very weak in many developing countries (Luh & Bartram 2016). However, we, as WASH professionals, cannot think like this and we have to face the enormity of the SDG challenges head-on. And enormous these challenges most certainly are. SDG #6 is all-water embracing (United Nations General Assembly 2015a, 2015b). It includes, for example, affordable safely-managed water and sanitation, and hygiene (notably facilities for handwashing with soap, menstrual hygiene management (MHM), and food hygiene), for all − and ‘all’ really does mean ‘all’. We therefore have to include the disabled, the elderly, slum dwellers, indigenous peoples and nomads, the homeless including street children and pavement dwellers, and refugees, prisoners and detainees. We also have to address the hygienic disposal of young-child faeces. Water quality has to be improved by reducing pollution, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater, and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse. This is going to be more than a little difficult, as currently around 1.5 billion (billion = 109) people who are served by sewers do not have any wastewater treatment (Baum et al . 2013); in total some 80% of all wastewater is untreated (Corcoran et al . 2010). Next is water-use efficiency and reducing the number of people suffering from water scarcity. This will also be difficult: currently some 4 billion people live under conditions of severe water scarcity for at least 1 month of the year, …