Sustainable Development Goals: Concept and Challenges of Global Development Goal Setting (original) (raw)
Handbook of Global Health
The power dynamics in the global development agenda setting are known. Traditionally, debates are pitched on platforms glorifying how the developed Global North arm twists the developing Global South to comply and/or conform to specific policy positions. Through actor-network theory, document analysis, and critical discourse analysis, the chapter traces global development agenda setting mainly from the Rio+20 Summit whose outcome document is codenamed "The Future We Want." From Rio+20 emerged a global development road map leading to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and its 17 inseparable sustainable development goals (SDGs). A 3-year negotiation period was established, terminating in the new global sustainable development agenda that succeeded the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2016. Although the SDGs have received unanimous endorsement by global governments, their development was not as straightforward as many may think. With the rallying banner "Let no one be left behind," the global goals indicator
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