As the second most populated country in the world, urbanization in India is taking place at a high rate. As a result, the country is dealing with a great housing shortage. Twenty five per cent of the population do not have dwellings of their own, accounting for a shortage of almost sixty million units. Hence, building constructions play a vital role to meet such demand.
Nepal’s efforts in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) brought gains in many areas, like poverty reduction, health, and school enrollment, but other areas stalled as most of the investments made during the MDGs were aimed at improvements in the social sector. Because of this, a greater focus on infrastructure is needed to achieve the country’s commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As a developed nation with relatively high incomes, Japan’s path through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was significantly different from that of developing nations. During the years of the MDGs, the country was a significant Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) contributor. With the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Japan recommitted its support for developing nations.
During the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Bangladesh made impressive gains in areas like poverty alleviation, school enrollment, and child health, but as the nation transitioned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it had fallen short on many of their targets as pockets of poverty lingered, youth unemployment and underemployment persisted, and challenges around educational outcomes remained.
In June 2017, Bangladesh submitted its first Voluntary National Review (VNR) report to the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) of the United Nations.
The “Implementing A ‘Ridge to Reef’ Approach to Protect Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions in Tuvalu (R2R Tuvalu)” project aims to maintain and enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services, sustain livelihoods, and improve resilience.
The idea of the Zero Baht Shop located in Bangok’s Prawet district is rather simple, yet highly impactful: a place where no money is needed, but recyclable goods can be exchanged for other useful items.
It all started in a deprived area on the outskirts of Bangkok, where most people worked in the informal sector, doing jobs such as selling goods on boats, picking recyclables from waste, selling garlands on the street, or becoming day laborers. Their wages were earned daily, which made it impossible to rent a home.
Bjorn Low is the co-founder of Edible Garden City (EGC), a social enterprise that runs urban farms in the densely-packed city of Singapore. The organization aims to improve the sustainability of local food systems by increasing local food production.
In 2013, Kim Lim, Suzanne Ling, and Lee Swee Lin, fellow students at University College Sedaya International (UCSI) in Malaysia, were working on a project which helped university students find volunteer opportunities helping refugees and special-needs schools. Children from a local refugee community came to them for tutoring help in English, math, and science, but there was a high dropout rate for those students. They therefore decided to visit families whose children had dropped out to see where the problem lied.
Indonesia is an ethnically and culturally diverse country with almost 260 million of people spread across more than 17000 islands. Along with the significant economic growth of the country on the past decade, the energy consumption is also steadily increasing altogether with the emissions of greenhouse gases, pushing Indonesia into the 7th largest emitter in the world (Friedrich et al., 2015).
Following decades of conflict, Afghanistan adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2004, nearly five years after they were launched, in looking to deliver the rights to dignity, freedom, equality, a basic standard of living, and freedom from hunger and violence to all its people. Afghanistan achieved modest levels of success in the MDGs, but its leaders believe that experience put it on a positive course for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).