Beyond Aid to Sustainable Development

James Michel, a U.S. ambassador and senior adviser with the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), has published a new article. His report, “Beyond Aid: The Integration of Sustainable Development in a Coherent International Agenda,” appeared in January, 2016 on the CSIS website. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of the competing global priorities and pressures to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals—which include commitments to end poverty and hunger, preserve the environment, and promote peaceful and inclusive communities—and outlines a number of economic, social and political “priority issues” to that will affect their implementation. Michel concludes that multi-stakeholder collaboration, diversification of development financing and a growing “recognition to ‘do development differently,’” will be crucial to shift the conversation towards a “new spirit of solidarity, cooperation, and mutual accountability…based on our shared humanity…in a shrinking world.”

The full article is available here.

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