Tag: Sustainable Development Goals

  • Call for standard approach to assessing water supply functionality
    Call for standard approach to assessing water supply functionality

    New UPGro paper “The need for a standard approach to assessing the functionality of rural community water supplies” by  Helen Bonsor,  Alan MacDonald, Vincent Casey, Richard Carter and Paul Wilson. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10040-017-1711-0 The Sustainable Development Goals have set an agenda for transformational change in water access, aiming for secure household connections globally. Despite this goal, communal…

  • Commentary on UN Sustainable Development Goals

    On September 25, 2015, the global development agenda for the next 15 years was set at the United Nations General Assembly following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). GroFutures Team members Simon Damkjaer and Richard Taylor comment on the limitations of current metrics used to assess progress toward SDG 6.4 – “to… substantially reducing…