Just a quick update on school. For one of my classes, Poverty and Development, we participated in a student competition over the new Sustainable Development Goals for 2015 (SDGs). They are essentially the next set of global goals that are set by the UN for countries to strive for. They are essentially a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals. If you'd like to read more about them, click HERE for the SDGs and HERE for the MDGs.
Our team proposed taking the existing 17 SDGs and categorizing them under for more general and understandable categories. We then suggested a phasing overview to make the goals more approachable, and finally suggested measuring process with both quantifiable and qualitative evidence to make sure all the progress (or lack of it) is captured. Our presentation can be seen HERE.
We ended up winning the competition! It was judged by David Hulme, the former dean of the International Development school and a well-known scholar on poverty. We got to share a box of chocolate and some swanky certificates.
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