This qualitative paper focuses on alignment between South Africa's National Development and its Medium㏕erm Strategic Frameworks and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. Based on an analysis of policy documents and peer‐reviewed research on the Policy Coherence for Development movement...
South Africa is faced with a variety of development challenges, one of which relates to crime. In response to the persistent and unacceptable high rates of crime, among other challenges, the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030 was published in August 2012. Regarding safety and security within ...
South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP) 2030 maps out more specific development priorities for the country (National Planning Commission, 2013). The NDP, developed before the SDGs were finalised, sets out a visionary and holistic approach to sustainable development. It defines national ...
In South Africa, sustainable access to clean and safe water is a constitutional right of all citizens (Mckenzie, 2012) and according to the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030, the South Africa Government initiation plan to ensure that all citizens have access to clean running water in their...
The landmark program is an important part of the Saudi Vision 2030 reform plan, which was unveiled in 2016 and aims to diversify the Saudi economy and reduce the country's reliance on oil. Saudi Arabia's 2019 budget has allocated 33 billion riyals (around 8.8 billion dollars) for the energ...
South Korea has adopted the AI National Development Plan, which is focused on investing in AI research and development, supporting the growth of the AI industry, and promoting the use of AI in various sectors (Chung 2020). The AI National Development Plan is based on three key pillars: Inves...
LMICs such as India and South Africa have a coverage of over 70% [62]. However, in the case of China, these four vaccines have not been included in the NIP and the coverage rates are low, which can be attributed to several key barriers, including high vaccine prices, insufficient ...
A national-level afforestation plan has been announced by the Chinese government to combat global warming through carbon sequestration. However, the biophysical feedback of afforestation under future climate scenarios has not yet been assessed. Here, using the Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF)...
First, as the paper shows, ‘new’ national development planning is largely a practice-led paradigm with a body of knowledge, concepts and practices that relate both to state responses to economic globalization and to how they plan to implement Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. As shown ...
Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India Sanjeev Sharma Dhamma Dipa International Buddhist University, Sabroom, South Tripura, 799145, India Jatan Debnath Contributions All the authors contributed to the conception and...