SDG Centre

Who we are

Since coming into effect in January 2016, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mark the next phase of development initiatives to reduce poverty worldwide. However, with an estimated $2-3 trillion USD needed to fund the goals each year until 2030, serious challenges are coming to light. For the SDGs to be successful, it requires collective action and coordination between governments, INGOs, NGOs, CBOs, lawyers, businesses, diplomats, and people at the heart of the global development in a climate of increasing inequality, rising fragility and conflict, unprecedented forced displacement, and drastic increases in climate-related disasters.

The SDG Centre addresses these issues head-on. The SDG Centre is a research organisation focusing on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the associated 169 targets. Beyond the specific seventeen goals, we also look at SDG connections with youth, law, diplomacy and governance, business and human rights, SDG financing, and human security and global risks. The SDG Centre focuses on the goals as cross-cutting and complementary.

We reinforce the need to highlight “sustainability” in all concepts, recommendations, development programmes, and innovative solutions. Special emphasis is placed on bottom-up approaches, especially local change-makers and locally-driven implementation of sustainable development.

The SDG Centre recognises that with the Global South confronted by the direct consequences of climate change and natural disasters, they will need to be at the forefront of decision-making at the international level, shaping the way we combat some of the greatest challenges of our time in low-resource settings.

Researching Inclusive, Just and Equitable Development For All.