SDSN publishes “Guide to Getting Started”

December 14, 2015
Editor @17Goals

SDSN-GettingStartedGuide-coverThe global initiative known as the “Sustainable Development Solutions Network” has become a major vehicle for many organizations to collaborate on SDG implementation. SDSN — which has a long list of big names behind it — is growing, building new offices, continuing to establish itself as an indispensable institution.

Their latest offering is a general guide to the SDGs, SDG.guide — covering the history of the goals, their use as a planning framework, and how governments and others can start http://unsdsn.orgimplementing them. The document version of the guide, Getting Started with the Sustainable Development Goals, comes in several languages. Written at university level, it is especially https://shlclubhouse.org/provigil-online/ pitched at universities as well, though businesses, governments, and civic groups are also named as part of the core audience.

Use this excellent guide for a basic orientation to the world of SDG policy and planning. But note a couple of small points: the guide refers often to the “SDG Agenda” (in capital letters), which is not formally correct. The SDGs are part of a UN document called 2030 Agenda; there is not “SDG Agenda”. Also note that SDSN is not formally part of the UN, even though its website address, UNSDSN.org, makes it sound like a UN agency.

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