Hear Dan Brockington on the paradoxes of celebrity advocacy
The second lecture in the Global Development Seminar Series takes place on Wednesday October 21, with Professor Daniel Brockington. Dan will be speaking on The Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy.
The FREE lecture will run 4.30pm-6pm in the Cordingley Lecture Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street (HBS) building. Come one, come all!
LISTEN | Melissa Leach on equality, sustainability & security
The Global Development Seminar Series got off to a great start on Wednesday with a lecture by Institute of Development Studies Director Melissa Leach. Melissa spoke on Equality, Sustainability, Security: Towards Transformations in a Global Development Era.
We’ll be announcing details of next week’s seminar, with Dan Brockington later today. For now, here’s the audio from Melissa’s talk for those who missed out – or wish to recap!
SDGs to the rescue in post-2015 development?
By Aarti Krishnan, PhD researcher, BWPI
As IDS director Melissa Leach delivered her inspiring, wide-ranging and thought-provoking talk – Equality, sustainability, security: Towards transformations in a global development era – to start our inaugural Global Development seminar series, I pondered the role of superheroes and development solutions.
Hear IDS director Melissa Leach at launch of the Global Development Seminar Series
The Global Development Seminar Series kicks off next Wednesday October 14 with a free seminar by Institute of Development Studies Director Melissa Leach. Melissa will be speaking on Equality, Sustainability, Security: Towards Transformations in a Global Development Era.
The lecture will run 3.45pm-5.15pm in the Cordingley Lecture Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street (HBS) building. Seats are limited so please register at bit.ly/GDsem1.
The SDGs mark the end of development as poverty reduction
By Professor David Hulme
The UN has been setting goals to combat poverty for the last 50 or 60 years, but this gathered pace since 1990, following the end of the Cold War. Hundreds of different goals, from those regarding child and women’s rights to hunger and the environment, were agreed upon. However, while this led to increased attention on various issues, most goals weren’t systematically implemented by either rich or developing nations.
David Hulme on the implications of the SDGs for Manchester
Watch Professor David Hulme outline some further thoughts on the Sustainable Development Goals in this short interview with Adam Farkas from That’s Manchester.
Also check out:
If we don’t get a strong climate deal, the Sustainable Development Goals are doomed
By Professor David Hulme
The imminent announcement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is generating real debate amongst researchers, NGOs and academics about their level of ambition and the likelihood success. Will they be business as usual for the aid industry, or something truly transformational?
At the World Social Science Forum earlier this month there was a consensus that the SDGs are an advance on the MDGs, yet they still met with major criticisms. As one conference delegate told me, “they are just the MDGs with knobs on – these are not about global justice!” The MDGs focussed largely on reducing extreme poverty – according to Thomas Pogge seeking only to secure a minimalist set of basic needs for the world’s poorest people.
Universal access to sanitation requires a revolution in understanding
By Professor Diana Mitlin
Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes a clear commitment to universal access to sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This wording may have been tricky to negotiate, but it will be considerably trickier to turn into practice.
One of the most difficult aspects is determining how access to improved and adequate sanitation is measured. The scale of the task is immense, and it is equally evident that ‘progress’ appears to have been abysmal to date.
Business as usual on migration & climate change won’t produce sustainable development
The impacts of climate change are likely to be severe. Extreme weather events, heat stress, rising sea levels, infections and disease are just some potential results, which will hit poor and vulnerable populations in developing countries hardest. Yet the current ways in which international climate policy is incrementally formed through elite conversation is proving totally inadequate to deal with the growing threat.
The SDGs in Pictures
We’re counting down to the UN summit to ratify the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Over on Twitter and Facebook, we’re sharing an SDG a day along with a morsel of research from our academic staff and students. Below are a selection of this images, showing the breadth of The University of Manchester’s research on Development.