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Sustainable management of water resources and access to safe water and sanitation are essential for unlocking economic growth and productivity, and provide significant leverage for existing investments in health and education.  The natural environment e.g. forests, soils and wetlands contributes to management and regulation of water availability and water quality, strengthening the resilience of watersheds and complementing investments in physical infrastructure and institutional and regulatory arrangements for water access, use and disaster preparedness.  Water shortages undercut food security and the incomes of rural farmers while improving water management makes national economies, the agriculture and food sectors more resilient to rainfall variability and able to fulfil the needs of growing population.  Protecting and restoring water-related ecosystems and their biodiversity can ensure water purification and water quality standards. Facts and Statisti...

Gender equality is a fundamental and inviolable human right.  Women’s and girls’ empowerment is an essential factor in expanding economic growth, promoting social development and enhancing business performance. The full incorporation of women’s capacities into labor forces would add percentage points to most national growth rates, to be specific, double digits in many cases.  Further, investing in women’s empowerment produces the double dividend of benefiting women and children, and is pivotal to the health and social development of families, communities and nations. Empowering women and girls and achieving gender equality requires the concerted efforts of all stakeholders, including business.  All companies have baseline responsibilities to respect human rights, including the rights of women and girls. Beyond these baseline responsibilities, companies also have the opportunity to support the empowerment of women and girls through core business, social inv...

Good afternoon and happy Eid ul Fitr 2018 to all my followers and fans globally. May the day delight and the moments measure all the special joys for all of you to treasure. May the year ahead be fruitful too, for your home and family and especially for you.Eid Mubarak. Today, I happily bring you a digest of goal number four.  First, the bad news on education. Poverty, armed conflict and other emergencies keep many children around the world out of school. In fact, children from the poorest households are four times more likely to be out of school than those of the richest households.  Now for some good news since 2000, there has been enormous progress on the goal to provide primary education to all children globally: the total enrolment rate in developing regions has reached 91%. By measures in any school, that’s a good grade.  Now, let’s get an even better grade for all children, and achieve the goal of universal primary and secondary education, affor...

Health is a fundamental human right and a key indicator of sustainable development. Poor health threatens the rights of children to education, limits economic opportunities for men and women and increases poverty within communities and countries around the world.  In addition to being a cause of poverty, health is impacted  by poverty and strongly connected to other aspects of sustainable development, including water and sanitation, gender equality, climate change and peace and stability. In recent years, notable progress has been made, but significant challenges remain. Women around the world continue to lack access to sexual and reproductive health care; thousands of new cases of HIV/AIDS continue to occur each day, billions of people are left without access to essential medicines, millions of adults and children  will suffer from undernourishment this year, and the global amount of waste is estimated to triple in the coming year, with severe effects on he...

The aim is to ensure that everyone everywhere has enough good-quality food to lead a healthy life. Achieving this Goal will require better access to food and the widespread promotion of sustainable agriculture.  This entails improving the productivity and incomes of small-scale farmers by promoting equal access to land, technology and markets, sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices. It also requires increased investments through international cooperation to bolster the productive capacity of agriculture in developing countries. Statistics  Despite progress, more than 790 million people worldwide still suffer from hunger The fight against hunger has seen some progress over the past 15 years. Globally, the proportion of undernourished people declined from 15 per cent in 2000-2002 to 11 per cent in 2014-2016. However, more than 790 million people still lack regular access to adequate food. If current trends continue, the zero...