{"id":35917,"date":"2018-11-01T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35917"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:46:59","slug":"for-a-greater-global-role-take-sdgs-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/for-a-greater-global-role-take-sdgs-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"For a greater global role, take SDGs seriously:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Opinion\/Qm14u4S1WtbhU3OTmNBOoJ\/For-a-greater-global-role-take-SDGs-seriously.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a greater global role, take SDGs seriously<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Context<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India presented its first voluntary national report on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN on July 19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The implementation of SDG<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with India there were other 42 countries to implement SDG.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is broad consensus that the success or failure of the hard-negotiated 17 SDGs will largely depend on whether India is able to achieve them or not.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The difficult part<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The target of Goal 1 to \u201cEnd poverty in all its forms everywhere\u201d looks unlikely to be achieved unless India attains it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India alone is home to more than 30% of the global estimate of over one billion people who live in extreme poverty.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to another estimate, India has more poor than 26 of the poorest countries in Africa.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, a single Indian state, Uttar Pradesh (UP), accounts for 8% of the world\u2019s population living in extreme poverty.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, if UP were to succeed, the world would be well on its way to achieving SDG Goal 1.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s voluntary reporting at the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on sustainable development was the perfect opportunity to not only present India\u2019s commendable achievements since the SDGs were adopted in 201.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also enhances India\u2019s global standing and leadership credentials at the UN.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast, the role of state governments, many of whom have adopted the SDGs, partly to leverage greater largesse from the Central government, has been justifiably highlighted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The efforts of many of the states, including Bihar, have been stressed though UP is a crucial omission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missing strategies<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from the missing grand strategy, the report also makes little effort to connect how India\u2019s success in the SDGs would benefit not only India but also other developing countries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also fails to make the case that India\u2019s achievement of the SDGs will enable it take on more global governance responsibilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report makes a cursory reference to \u201cSouth-South\u201d cooperation, fails to mention South-North-South triangular cooperation entirely.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It still pleads for more overseas development assistance from the leading Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) donors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In doing so, it dents India\u2019s case for taking on more global responsibility and also its burgeoning role as a donor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While India might overcome the various challenges in implementing the SDGs, including developing reliable indicators to measure implementation, the efforts will have limited impact unless India also successfully leverages the SDGs to play a greater global role.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a greater global role, take SDGs seriously: Context \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0India presented its first voluntary national report on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN on July 19th. The implementation of SDG \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Along with India there were other 42 countries to implement SDG. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There is broad consensus that the success or failure of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/for-a-greater-global-role-take-sdgs-seriously\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For a greater global role, take SDGs seriously:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700796959,"cached_date":1704574786},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}