The SDG second half: Ideas for doing things differently
- Author
- Amar BhattacharyaMargaret BiggsMatthew BishopCaren GrownGeorge IngramHomi KharasJohn W. McarthurSarah E. MendelsonJane NelsonTony PipaNaheed SarabiJacob TaylorPriya VoraRebecca Winthrop
- Corporate Author
- Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings
- Collation
- 31 p.
- Resource Language
- English
- Year of publication
- 2023
- Keyword
- Sustainable developmentSustainable development goalsEducation for sustainable developmentTransformative initiatives
- Topic
- Preventing violent extremism and genocideSustainable development / SustainabilityTransformative initiatives / Transformative pedagogiesOthers
- Resource Type
- Research papers / journal articles
- Level of education
- Higher educationNon-formal education
- Place of publication
- Washington, D.C.
This short compendium captures a cross section of SDG-focused insights and recommendations from CSD-affiliated scholars. Each brief essay describes something with the potential to be done differently during the second half of the SDG era. Across a dozen contributions, topics range from reframing media coverage of the SDGs to measuring and elevating the role of the private sector; from participatory approaches to transforming education systems to new learning paradigms for human rights; from better risk-taking in fragile countries to improving infrastructure and services for care; from fit-for-purpose multilateral development banks to a purpose-driven fund to end extreme poverty; from turbo-charged Canadian SDG approaches to renewed American SDG leadership; from breakthroughs in digital public infrastructure to innovative frontiers in the digitally empowered methods of collective behavior science.

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