The United Nations adopted on Friday a sweeping set of global goals that put the environment front and center within a broader development agenda, calling for member nations to fix climate change, cut food waste, and put an end to overfishing.
In her closing remarks, she drew a parallel between gender issues and a broader development agenda.
These trends are in contrast to the stated aims of integrating health policy making with the broader development agenda or with comprehensive health sector planning.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) incorporate key goals and targets of the broader development agenda, agreed upon by world leaders and other stakeholders at different UN Summits and Conferences.
In 2000, global communities took a historic step to declare and acknowledge the importance of an effective response to HIV-AIDS by placing it in the context of the broader development agenda of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Since NCD are going to rise, it should be incorporated in the broader development agenda to strengthen healthcare systems for NCD prevention through leveraging nationwide prevention and intervention programs, allocating sufficient resources and improving primary health care.
However, its overall effectiveness will depend on the ability of the international community to take advantage of this powerful political opportunity to institutionalize NCD prevention and control into policies and programmes within the broader development agenda.
It describes the Bank's goals, policy objectives, perspective on education in relationship to a broader development agenda, and its rationale for investing in education – particularly education's ability to produce gains in human development.
'Equity is essential' UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin also stressed the importance of addressing gender inequities for the sake of the broader development agenda, as women and girls are especially vulnerable to poverty and exclusion.
These shifts have enabled four 'priority' NCDs – cardiovascular disease, common cancers, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, which share common risk factors such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, harmful use of alcohol and smoking – to rise in prominence on the global health agenda, and they now occupy an unprecedented place on the broader development agenda for post-2015 (13– 13).
