Sentence examples for UN development agenda from inspiring English sources

This week in New York, UN member states are discussing implementation and review mechanisms for the sustainable development goals (SDGs), which will become the focus of the UN development agenda for the next 15 years.

While health is clearly central, therefore, to the UN development agenda, non-communicable diseases are conspicuously absent from the MDGs.

There has been sustainable progress in expanding education, greater recognition of the critical importance of education on the UN development agenda, serious country initiatives to advance secondary education, and stronger emphasis on technical and vocational training around the world.

"Our success or failure in building sustainable cities will be a major factor in the success of the post-2015 UN development agenda".

An American development agenda is needed.

Last year, the EU development commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, announced a new direction for EU development, Agenda for Change, focusing on democracy, human rights and governance in its aid programmes as well as concentrating aid on the world's poorest states, such as Somalia.

The multidimensional impacts of disaster on health, nutrition, hygiene, security, protection, education, and livelihood of women are an absolute threat to the human rights and the dignity of the vulnerable women that are major hindrance in accomplishing MDG development agenda.

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction around the United Nations General Assembly's 68th session and its general debate on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), "Post-2015 Development Agenda: Setting the Stage" (September 24-October 2 , 2013.

The MDGs are powerful because they departed from vaguely worded and overloaded UN development agendas.

The new UN global Sustainable Development Goals post-20155 development agenda) are to be approved at a UN General Assembly summit in New York in September.

For my talk I used the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations' post-2015 development agenda as a foundation upon which to build an argument on the importance of the data revolution for sustainable development.