NUTR 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, Multistakeholder Governance Model
7 Aug 2018
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January 12th, 2018
Week 1-3
Development Goals and Dilemmas
Global Governance Through Goal Setting
●Millennium development goals (2000-2015)
●First goal-oriented strategy of development
●8 goals
●Multidimensional approach
●Sustainable development goals (2016-2030)
●Were negotiated among diverse development actors, not just governments but NGOs
●Universal, not focused as much on developing countries
●17 goals, but there are also 169 micro-targets to help achieve these goals
●Effort to integrate economic and social development with environmental sustainability
●Aiming at more coherent and transformative agendas
●Intersectional focus (i.e. how do indigenous women experience child mortality?)
Paradigm Shift from a “gift” to “right” in the SDGs
●SDGs' active inclusion of a human rights-based approach = influence the process to keep human
rights at the centre
●17 development goals that address poverty alleviation, climate change & disaster risk, inequality,
justice, peace, security, and democracy
●Example: UNICEF: "Children's access to safe water and sanitation is a right, not a privilege"
○SDG 6: access to clean water and sanitation
●Ambitious effort to integrate economic and social development with environmental sustainability
●Reflection of the international human rights community's priorities – equality, participation,
and accountability
○Combatting systemic inequality
●Aiming coherent and transformative agendas in order to achieve real structural change
Significance of SDGs
●Promotion of key “priorities”
●Clear and comprehensive goals that direct development actors towards “desirable” development
outcomes
●Promotion of multidimensional development measurements central to human development
●Multi-stakeholder partnerships between governments, businesses, NGOs and civil society, and
other actors matter because efficient and meaningful allocation of resources, not just the macro
aspects, but the micro aspects too, rooted in reality in the field. Construction of a monitor and
review mechanism through a careful evaluation to determine a success
Document Summary
Were negotiated among diverse development actors, not just governments but ngos. Universal, not focused as much on developing countries. 17 goals, but there are also 169 micro-targets to help achieve these goals. Effort to integrate economic and social development with environmental sustainability. Aiming at more coherent and transformative agendas. Intersectional focus (i. e. how do indigenous women experience child mortality?) Paradigm shift from a gift to right in the sdgs. Sdgs" active inclusion of a human rights-based approach = influence the process to keep human rights at the centre. 17 development goals that address poverty alleviation, climate change & disaster risk, inequality, justice, peace, security, and democracy. Example: unicef: "children"s access to safe water and sanitation is a right, not a privilege" Sdg 6: access to clean water and sanitation. Ambitious effort to integrate economic and social development with environmental sustainability. Reflection of the international human rights community"s priorities equality, participation, and accountability.
