Africa: The Private Sector and the Sustainable Development Goals

24 September 2015

Institute of Development Studies (Brighton)

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This weekend the UN General Assembly will ratify the adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will represent the objectives of the international community for the next fifteen years. With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expired, and development challenges still a reality, this agenda required changes in the structure and mindset. One such change is a much greater visibility of the role played by the private sector - but how can business, with its incentives aligned around profit, meaningfully contribute to development?

The last fifteen years of MDGs implementation have primarily been based on government-led initiatives, with business involvement limited to an ad hoc basis. For a number of reasons, a structured framework for engagement of the private sector with the MDGs had never been on offer.

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