The phrase "as a development issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a topic or concern that pertains to development, often in contexts related to economics, social issues, or project management.
Example: "The lack of access to clean water is often viewed as a development issue that affects many communities around the world."
Alternatives: "in terms of development" or "regarding development challenges".
But I asked to do mental health about a year ago as a development issue and I'm just, I'm falling in love with the subject you know, I think it's really, really interesting.' [Site H mental health lead 2001] This interviewee had moved on again by the time of our final interviews in 2003 4.
Disability must be seen as a development issue, says the report, but like obesity and ageing, it is an issue that transcends the traditional north-south distinctions.
But we must also recognise that Agenda 2030 includes climate change as a development issue for the first time in an international development document.
The question the post raised was whether the momentum to improve the profile of nutrition as a development issue that was evident in 2008-09 is being maintained.
Melanie Ward, a spokeswoman for If, says tax's emergence as a development issue is a step in the right direction, but added: "Tax avoidance is so ingrained in the international system that there is a mountain to climb".
For instance, the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 2015 Mid-Term Review acknowledged DRR as a development issue (UNISDR 2011).
Lakshmi Puri, the deputy executive director of UN Women, the agency created two years ago, stressed that violence against women is a development issue as well as a human rights one (video).
They're all beginning to look at this as a security issue, not a development issue, and they're scrounging for money from other places in their budgets".
Fundamentally, it underlines pollution as a human development issue, as much as one about the use of global commons.
Tax has arrived as a major development issue.
The Political Declaration adopted at the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs succeeded in firmly establishing NCDs as a global development issue requiring urgent action.
