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Sustainable Development Goals

This beat covers implementation of Sustainable Development Goals at national, regional, and international level, including trends and good practices.

Africa's youngest generation holds the key to a bold new future.
Sustainable Development Goals

Summit of the Future and a new Poem for Africa

Embracing Digital Transformation to Realize Our Potential
A girl
Sustainable Development Goals

Africa is on the cusp of an innovation revolution

Fintech Says award-winning fintech prodigy, Salton Massally.
Partnership brings the fire for human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Sustainable Development Goals

Partnership brings the fire for human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals

A festival in Eswatini provided the perfect backdrop to encourage audiences to learn about and protect their human rights.
Nelson Mandela
Sustainable Development Goals

Honoring Nelson Mandela: A call to fight inequality and poverty

Sustainable Development Goals Together, let’s honour Madiba’s legacy and turn our hands towards building a better world for all, says UN Secretary-General.

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Pedestrians First activists in Lusaka on early morning walk to advocate for safer walkways and zebra
Economic Development

Sharing the road: Connecting streets to people

Committed advocates working to end violence against women and girls in their country.
Sustainable Development Goals

Niger: Young Nigeriens call for an end to child marriage 

Amina Mohammed, former Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning. Photo: AR/Pavithra Rao

‘I foresee a world without poverty’

Sustainable Development Goals

— Amina Mohammed

Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. Photo: Africa Renewal/Bo Li

Financing Africa’s development agenda

Sustainable Development Goals

— Carlos Lopes

Maged Abdelaziz, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa. Photo: Africa Renewal/Paddy Ilos

Agenda 2063 is in harmony with SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals

— Maged Abdelaziz

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is guided through Mbalmayo, Cameroon, a town where residents are engaged in several projects to further the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

MDGs: An assessment of Africa’s progress

Was development goals’ yardstick unfair to Africa?

A slum in Kibera, Kenya. Poverty remains a challenge in Africa. Photo: AMO/Colin Walker

Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind

MDGs

MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Ethiopian women in a skills training workshop. Photo: UN/Eskinder Debebe

Closing Africa’s ‘elusive’ gender gap

MDGs

MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Maternity ward at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, South Africa. Photo: AMO/John Robinson

A glass half-empty, yet half-full

MDGs

MDG 4: Reduce child mortality

An expectant mother. Photo: AMO/ Nikki Rixon

Lack of resources affecting interventions

MDGs

MDG 5: Mixed results in maternal health goals across Africa

A woman has her blood taken for a test at a clinic in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo: Panos/ Giacomo Pirozzi

New cases drop, but numbers still high

MDGs

MDG 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and other diseases

Logged plantation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Photo: AMO/David Larsen

Light at the end of the tunnel

MDGs

MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Together in a stronger partnership. Photo: UNDP

How did partnerships work for Africa?

MDGs

MDG 8: Global Partnership for Development

Full steam ahead to sustainable energy

Rio+20sustainable development

Tapping geothermal power in Kenya’s Rift Valley