But that’s not the only city service such a statistic affects: It creates massive divergence in energy use surges and even defines where to put (and what specialists are needed within) hospitals and health systems. Details such as those between Amsterdam and Tulsa commuters should impact ...
For now, Kenya is a net importer of oxygen and is bringing in nearly enough for routine care, such as for pneumonia patients. But Hewatele founder Dr. Bernard Olayo tells Sara thatthe country is vulnerable to external shocksand could find itself at the end of the queue should another pand...
“Smartphones are coming, and people want them, but 95% of people in Uganda have a simple feature phone, so we cannot reach them by Facebook or WhatsApp. If you are going with those tools, you will only reach the wealthiest 5% of the population.” In order to reduce response bias, ...
Seven partners in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Turkey (Cohort 1) The first cohort of the UBS Accelerate Collective explored innovative social finance models using impact-first investing to unlock additional socially motivated commercial capital. The programs funded focused on primar...
From the perspective of acquiring knowledge and skills, along with developing human resources, it is clear that the elements of education are present across all 17 SDGs. In other words, education is a cross-cutting discipline that influences a variety of areas (Kitamura et al. 2014) and, as...
Given the proliferation of gender-transformative interventions among young adolescents over the past several years, we suggest that there are two key questions that warrant further exploration at this time: (1) what have we learned? and (2) where should the field go? To address these questions,...
Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an advisory group launched in 2012 by the UN Secretary General to advise on the development of a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that built on the MDGs as mandated at the “Rio + 20” UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012....
And in the past year or two, it seems the development and humanitarian fields can’t stop talking about the potential of “data” – small data, big data, inclusive data, real-time data for the SDGs, etc. and the possible roles for ICT in collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing...
“It actually fits the plan, one, is that we are the first point of call in this issue of adolescent reproductive health. We, in the society, feel nothing happens; they get our consent, they come to us and discuss their problem with us, and it boosts their morale whether to continue ...
s economic recovery. The policy plan seeks to increase infrastructure investments in energy, transport, information technology, tourism, housing, and water and sanitation, in alignment with and pursuit of the UN’s SDGs (Government of Zimbabwe2018). A list of infrastructure projects that the ...