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COVID-19 and the SDGs

"For each of the 17 SDGs, this briefing summarizes preliminary estimates on the actual or likely impacts of the global coronavirus crisis” and “illustrates that the 2030 Agenda will not be reached”…

Reshaping governance for sustainability

This report “offers analysis and recommendations on how to strengthen inclusive and participatory governance and to overcome structural and institutional obstacles and gaps in the implementation of…

Rules of engagement between the UN and private actors

This report details potential “rules of engagement between the UN and private actors”, “Towards a regulatory and institutional framework” (Martens and Seitz, 2019).

Extractive Industries and Violation of Women’s Rights

This briefing discusses how “women are disproportionately affected by negative social and environmental impacts of extractive industries”, “ the human rights impact of business enterprises could be…

Towards Global Regulation on Business and Human Rights

This is the Statement of the Treaty Alliance Germany on the draft for a legally binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights.

Who Influences whom in the policy arena? Statisticians seek greater voice

“Propelled by national demand for greater access to and control over Big Data, panelists at the seminar on financing data and statistics side event were asked how National Statistical Offices (NSOs)…

A Fatal Attraction?

This paper examined the 50th Session of the UN Statistical Commission and the theme of “the often tense interface between data and policy-making and the asymmetrical power dynamics that shape it”…

What you get for your dollar

“This briefing paper provides an overview of the approach underlying EA” and “concludes that policy makers...must instead concentrate on understanding the confounding structural causes of…

Philanthrocapitalism in global health and nutrition: analysis and implications

“Large global foundations play an...active role in shaping the global development agenda and in setting the funding priorities for international institutions and national governments alike… This…

Spotlight on Sustainable Development

This report summarizes focuses “on cross-cutting policy reform areas that demonstrate the interlinkages between various SDGs, the need to ‘de-silo’ current policy approaches, and to promote policies…