Advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (original) (raw)

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy

The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 has been an achievement by itself. They have been in fact the First World's shared goals, the first global agreement to try to end extreme poverty with its main collateral effects. The United Nations (UN) System has been a critical partner in the entire process: to set the MDGs in place, to provide leadership, policy advice to various sets of actors about the mechanism around which the MDGs have been rolled out. It also provided capacity building, training, finances to governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The MDGs have in fact expired at the end of 2015 and, while their evaluation and critiques are being progressively analysed, the post-2015 development agenda has been prepared. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been formally adopted in 25-27 September 2015. Even before the deadline approached, it became evident that the MDGs would not have been achieved by anyone and that huge disparities exist

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