{"id":3080,"date":"2017-05-05T06:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T06:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2017-05-13T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T07:48:10","slug":"sustainable-development-goals-too-many-good-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2017\/05\/05\/sustainable-development-goals-too-many-good-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Development Goals &#8211; Too Many Good Ideas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/sustainable-development-goals-e1494656302662.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3081\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/sustainable-development-goals-e1494656302662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over recent decades our world has hosted some remarkable cooperative efforts at increasing the well-being of human kind. The Health for All movement began in 1970s and 80s, emphasized primary healthcare: the provision of essentially health services like nutrition, housing, sanitation and vaccinations. Health for All quite notably emphasized local community responsibility for their own progress.\u00a0 The <span class=\"_Tgc\">Millennium Development Goals<\/span> highlighted the 2000s, with efforts in eight <span class=\"_Tgc\">areas including education, gender equality and environmental sustainability. All in all, the MDGs enjoyed enthusiastic support and measurable success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? Today we&#8217;re in the era of the UN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sustainable_Development_Goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>: seventeen &#8220;Global Goals&#8221; that include 169 sub-targets between them. These have been painstakingly considered and planned by respected global development professionals, and broadly embraced by both governments and NGOs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But can you name all seventeen? How about just fifty of the sub-targets? Not likely. A commentary in <i>The Economist,<\/i> for example, argued that 169 SDG targets is too many. The genius of Health for All and the <span class=\"_Tgc\">Millennium Development Goals<\/span> was their <em>simplicity<\/em> and <em>easy of communication<\/em>. As our world grapples with cooperative forward progress, let us be vigilant to continue embracing these two proven virtues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Over recent decades our world has hosted some remarkable cooperative efforts at increasing the well-being of human kind. 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