From health, education, food security to infrastructure, innovation, peace and partnerships, tackling poverty lies at the heart of these efforts. As the world looks ahead to the upcoming World Social Summit, it will be essential to keep ending poverty as the golden thread connecting the investments we make to accelerate the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The reality is that change is happening, and it affects our everyday lives. From grassroots initiatives to national policy, we are seeing progress that is real, measurable, collective and worth scaling up.
When Atitoafaiga Tau-Ioapo, 30, discovered that one of her rugby league teammates was missing, she felt frightened. “Her mom reached out to me and said we haven’t seen her since last night. It’s now 8 p.m. the next day, and we haven’t seen her.”
The Joint SDG Fund’s joint programme is paving the way for sustainable economic empowerment in The Bahamas, focusing on women, youth, and people with disabilities. By enhancing access to financial mechanisms, fostering knowledge sharing, and supporting capacity building, this initiative addresses key barriers to achieving gender equality and inclusive development.
The world continues to grapple with unprecedented challenges but there are reasons for cautious optimism in 2025, urged UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2025 report shows that despite withstanding a series of mutually reinforcing shocks, global economic growth has stagnated and remains below the pre-pandemic annual average of 3.2 per cent.
To bridge global aspirations with on-the-ground realities, the Joint SDG Fund and the Local2030 Coalition have joined forces to channel investments toward SDG localization.
“Let’s dispense with any idea that climate finance is charity;” runaway climate change is impacting “every single individual in the world one way or another,” Mr. Simon Stiell said on Monday at the start of COP29.
