Challenges to Achieving SDG 3
SDG 3 seeks to contribute to sustainable development by achieving good health and well-being for all the earth’s citizens. But, what is the likelihood that we can collectively achieve SDG …
Course: Achieving Sustainable Development
How can we measure sustainability?
Perhaps the most important question on this topic is ‘how can we know what sustainability is’? If something is sustainable, it means that it is able to be maintained at …
Bringing together the last three weeks
Over the past four weeks, we’ve explored the topic of sustainable development. We’ve looked at what it means when we talk about sustainability and what the key challenges to achieving …
Inspiring Women: Planning, randomization design and data collection
In the last steps, Gaia introduced you to the Inspiring Women project as an example of a randomized control trial. Here we will look at how the project was carried …
Inspiring Women: Sarah’s story
Here we can see an example of one of the four videos presented to the women during the Inspiring Women project. This is the inspiring story of Sarah Nalwoga, a …
Inspiring Women: An example of a randomized control trial in practice
Understanding whether sustainable development projects are having an impact on communities is a key part of overcoming challenges. In this video, Gaia introduces the Inspiring Women project; an intervention in …
Assessing impact in practice – what does it look like?
Now that we understand the importance of measuring impact, we need to think about how to actually do it. Although we’re going to be look at some of the techniques …
How do we measure the impact of development?
In this video, Carol, Andrea, Martina, and Gaia have talked about the importance of measuring the impact of sustainable development projects. As Carol explains, the combined total investment in development …
Thanks and goodbye
Well done for completing the Achieving Sustainable Development course! We hope you have enjoyed this course We would like to thank all of you for your meaningful comments and input …
What’s next for the SDGs?
So, since 2015, after the UN General Assembly meeting and the adoption of the SDGs, global institutions, governments, civil society, and local citizens have begun working with sustainable development with …
Monitoring the success of the SDGs
So far, we have discussed ways to estimate the impact of interventions and programmes. But can we measure our overall social and economic progress, in other words, the impact of …
What would you do?
Now that we are coming to the end of the course, we’d like you to think about all of the challenges and case studies you have been presented with. Consider …
Exploring the eco-city in practice
For many centuries, we have designed our cities thinking that the environment is a blank canvas upon which all the architect’s fantasies can be realized. This attitude has led to …
How to build an eco-city
In this video we have explored the concept of eco-city and discussed the main challenges to a sustainable urban development. Do you think it is important to build eco-cities in …
Case study 2: DEWATS in India – A sustainable approach to wastewater treatment
In the outskirts of rapidly expanding urban areas, peri-urban areas are emerging. In these areas, as Jan explains in the video, there can be many challenges to achieving clean water …
