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New Global Sustainable Development Agenda: A Focus on Africa

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This paper focuses on how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may ‘play out for Africa’, an element including the interfacing of the SDGs and Africa's Agenda 2063. Through critical document and discourse analysis, the paper deconstructs meaning from the texts. What emerges is that there are ‘the good’ and ‘the bad’ in the SDGs in terms of where Africa wishes to be. Issues that include gender and women, education, desire to prioritize Africa and technology emerge strongly. However, there are glaring omissions: the silence on reforming the United Nations and other global multilateral political institutions, addressing land‐grab concerns, the much popularized green economy agenda and equity. The paper concludes that, if the SDGs are to be a vehicle for poverty eradication in Africa, then the continent needs to do more for itself, including domestic mobilization of financial resources. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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  • Godwell Nhamo, 2017. "New Global Sustainable Development Agenda: A Focus on Africa," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(3), pages 227-241, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:sustdv:v:25:y:2017:i:3:p:227-241
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    1. Godwell Nhamo & Charles Nhemachena & Senia Nhamo, 2020. "Using ICT indicators to measure readiness of countries to implement Industry 4.0 and the SDGs," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 22(2), pages 315-337, April.
    2. Thomas Hickmann & Frank Biermann & Matteo Spinazzola & Charlotte Ballard & Maya Bogers & Oana Forestier & Agni Kalfagianni & Rakhyun E. Kim & Francesco S. Montesano & Tom Peek & Carole‐Anne Sénit & Me, 2023. "Success factors of global goal‐setting for sustainable development: Learning from the Millennium Development Goals," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(3), pages 1214-1225, June.
    3. Peterson K. Ozili, 2022. "Sustainability and Sustainable Development Research around the World," Managing Global Transitions, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, vol. 20(3 (Fall)), pages 259-293.
    4. Robert Lindner, 2023. "Green hydrogen partnerships with the Global South. Advancing an energy justice perspective on “tomorrow's oil”," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(2), pages 1038-1053, April.

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