SDGs Flashcards
what are the 8 MDGs
- eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- universal primary education
- promote gender equality
- reduce child mortality
- improve maternal health
- combat HIV/AIDS and Malaria
- ensure environmental sustainability
- have global partnership and development
what is results based management
only measure the outcome rather than how the actual process is panning out
SOURCE: results based management
Hulme, 2010
criticism of MDGs
focused on fixing the problems of the future rather than looking at the root causes of the issues
lack of interconnection between goals
forced binary of developed and developing
in 2021, how many people suffered from hunger?
828 million
SOURCE: 828 million people in 2021 suffered from hunger
FAO, 2021
in 2019, how many children died of a preventable disease?
5.2 million
SOURCE: 5.2 million children died of a preventable disease in 2019
WHO, 2019
SOURCE: since 2015, the richest 1% has more wealth than the rest of the planet
Oxfam, 2017
triangle of sustainability
economic, social, environmental
criticisms of the SDGs
even more numbers than MDGs
reliance on technologies
contradictions between aims (GDP growth and environment)
power relations are unexplored
SOURCE: unexplored power relations within the SDGs
Reddy and Harvold-Kvangarven, 2015
SOURCE: public/private transparency of the SDGs is not discussed
Adams and Martens, 2015
Gender in the SDGs
insufficient attention paid to womens structural challenges
unpaid/domestic work does not get enough attention
paradoxical: UN vs national law
SOURCE: higher education in the GN and its effects on the GS
Connell, 2017
