Podcasts about millenium development goals

Paula Caballero is the Regional Managing Director for Latin America at The Nature Conservancy. Previously, Paula Caballero was Senior Director of the World Bank Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, and she was the creator of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Her recent book is “Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals.”  Colombia created the concept of the SDGs which were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015.  The SDG concept was geared to a universal agenda because all countries have development issues and there are common global problems, such as climate and migration, that needed to be confronted.  The SDGs were laudable in that the emphasis was to eradicate poverty, eliminate hunger, empower women and girls, combat climate change, and 13 additional goals. The corporate sector was very supportive because the SDGs were concrete proposals to confront problems from a macro-standpoint with systemic solutions.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #UN: the modest Millenium Development Goals of 2000. Bjorn Lomborg, Hoover Institution https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/commentary-17844434.php

Patrick Scheurle is the Chief Executive Officer of BlueOrchard and he was instrumental to the recent majority stake acquisition by the Schroders Group. Prior to that, he held the position of Chief Operating Officer at the company for 3 years. Patrick joined BlueOrchard from Bank Vontobel, where he was in charge of corporate business development and key strategic initiatives. He also held the position of Business Project Manager at Credit Suisse following various assignments as financial analyst and portfolio manager with major Swiss asset management companies. Highlights:  Importance of investor education Why it is risky not to invest in impact investments What would it take to convince all fund managers to embrace impact investing Usage framework is a great way to democratise impact investing SPIRIT - BlueOrchard’s proprietary impact management tool At BlueOrchard it is key to combine both worlds of financial and impact features Attractive financial features are drivers of impact investments Why learning about microfinance was a turning point in Patrick Scheurle‘s career Time Stamp: [02:30] What is impact investment? [05:26] Manager of the first ever commercial microfinance fund [07:10] What is microfinance? [14:00] Financial inclusion, education, reducing poverty and inequality and climate change [16:40] Microfinance for African private schools [20:40] Clients of BlueOrchard [32:03] SPIRIT impact management [35:00] Performance of impact investments and managing impact [40:15] Scaling impact investment to the mainstream [47:10] What inspired Patrick to go into impact investing Useful links: BlueOrchard (https://www.blueorchard.com/) BlueOrchard Impact Report 2019 (https://www.blueorchard.com/blueorchard-impact-report-20192020/) Schroders (https://www.schroders.com/en/media-relations/newsroom/all_news_releases/schroders-acquires-majority-stake-in-leading-impact-investor-blueorchard/) Sustainable Development Goals (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/) Millenium Development Goals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals) Bank Vontobel (https://www.vontobel.com/en-int/) Mohammad Yunus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus) Kofi Annan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan) FT Article - Schroders buys majority stake in BlueOrchard (https://www.ft.com/content/3e8dc2dc-074a-317d-ae02-1b47caef1ab6) KWF German Development Bank  (https://www.kfw.de/KfW-Group/) Small Money Big Impact (https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Small+Money+Big+Impact%3A+Fighting+Poverty+with+Microfinance-p-9781119338208) Connect with JP Dallmann on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-dallmann/) , Twitter (https://twitter.com/JPDallmann) , or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbyjp/) . Contact us to help you transition into Sustainable & Impact Investing - ILA & Partners (https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-leaders-advisors) How to incorporate SDGs into your business - Fast Forward 2030 (http://fastforward2030.com/) Find talent and careers with impact - Realchangers (https://www.realchangers.com/) Impact Leaders is produced by Podcast Publishing (http://podcastpublishing.help/)

In continuing our series of facing extreme challenges, my guest Aaron Vandiver brings insights as to how the fundamental policies and structures of the global Growth Model by which we all operate within, ultimately brings about the ecological destruction we need to prevent. This model is written, enforced, and entrenched in just about every layer of society and policy today. Conservation and economists knew back in the sixties, that infinite growth is simply not possible on a finite planet. Our conversation today helps us pinpoint the seemingly small but infinitely critical linkages that have had dynamic, and systemic, effects on the conservation movement over the past 50 years. We were at one time gaining ground, and now half century later we are losing ground, as our legal, corporate and accounting systems do not take into consideration the environmental costs associated with doing business as usual.

Development writer and international negotiations watcher Biraj Swain discusses with Prof Sachin Chaturvedi of Ministry of External Affairs RIS, Jonathan Glennie of Save the Children-UK, Vidya Venkat of The Hindu and Paul Divakar of Asia Dalit Rights Federation on the relevance of United Nations on its 70th anniversary, in a post-2008-meltdown world. They also discuss the ultra-conservative hunger and poverty definitions and the lack of ambition around 0.7% of GNI for development assistance and its impact. They take stock of the Millenium Development Goals, their impact on India and the world and conclude with their expectations from the new set of global goals i.e. the Sustainable Development Goals hold for us, our future and our shared destinies.Produced by Kartik Nijhawan See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. We feature in this episode our regular PANW reports with developments surrounding the role of Canada in the imperialist domination of Africa; preparations are being made for the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in South Africa; numerous Ethiopian troops have withdrawn from Somalian territory for the second time within a month in the aftermath of the bombing of the AMISOM base and the retaking of two towns by the Al-Shabab fighters; and Cuba has reached its Millenium Development Goals despite a five-decades long blockade by US imperialism. Abayomi Azikiwe is a part of a Community Progressive Radio news broadcast from last week, where he discussed the current political and security crisis in the Republic of South Sudan. We continue our month-long focus on the history of race relations in the U.S. with special attention paid to the political transition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism in 1967 and a look back at the legacy of A. Philip Randolph on Labor Day within the U.S. 

Has Eritrea reached its Millenium Development Goals target early? BBC's Yalda Hakim finds out in areas such as child mortality, maternal health and HIV/Aids and malaria.

Despite advances in prevention, rapid diagnosis and treatment andbeing a focus disease for the Millenium Development Goals, malariacontinues to claim an unacceptable number of lives.The first experiments in malaria vaccinology date back severaldecades. There was excitement on the release of the Colombian Spf66vaccine in the 1980s but this was followed by disappointed as thetrial results did not translate into the expected effictiveness on theground. Since then, molecular advances have seen a new wave ofcandidate vaccines including the RTS. In this podcast, ADC's global health editor Nick Brown discusses with Lorenz von Seidlein, an eminent malariologist at Menzies School of Health Research, Australia, the reasons why an effective vaccine has proved so elusive, the range of new candidates and hopes for the future.Read Lorenz's full article here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/12/981.full

Professor Peter Coleman sat down with colleagues Dr. Joshua Fisher and Kyong Mazzaro. Tune in to hear the trio discuss the peace side of peace and conflict and the United Nation's work towards achieving its Millenium Development Goals. Release date: November 2013

At the completion of this session, participants will be aware of: The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs); Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of disability to achieve the MDGs; Violence, causing/resulting from disability - a new global health priority; Resources related to disability and the MDGs. The Millenium Development Goals are to monitor progress toward a 'World Fit for Children'. The 8 Millenium Development Goals are: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Improve maternal health 6. Combat HIV/AIDs, Malaria and other diseases 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 8. Global partnership for development - What was surprising was that disability was not included in the MDGs! However, one billion people or 15% of the world's population experience some form of disability. It is estimated that 93 million children live with a moderate or severe disability. The Convention on the Rights of the Child identifies 4 cores principles; * Non-discrimination, * Best interest of the child, * Right to life, survival and development, * Respect for the views of the child. One of the rights is that 'children with a disability have the right to special care, training, to help him/her enjoy a decent life in dignity - and achieve the greatest degree of self reliance and social integration possible.' During this session, there will be discussion of each of the 8 MDGs as they apply to all children - with a focus on Disability. International successful initiatives will be discussed - as well as challenges and opportunities for future involvement of conference participants to make a difference in this new priority of preventing disability - and caring for those with a disability, and in partnership with those who have a disability , advocate for integration of children with disability into the community so that together we can maximize the potential of each

Dan Garvey had retired from a career in Educational Administration in Alberta. With the help of family and friends he was able to serve in The Gambia for 6 months in 2009. The Gambia in order to meet the ojectives of the Millenium Development Goals has almost 90% of primary aged children in schools. This has caused a real challenge on the infrastructures of schools. Overcrowding and lack of supplies and educators.Dan challenged his Church to help in the region as well.Dan cant thank his family more for giving him the support to fulfill his goal. He continues to support programs in The Gambia.Thanks Dan. Volunteer for a better world! Join CUSO-VSO, share skills and volunteer in 43 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Volunteers, donate, share skills.www.cuso-vso.org

Economist Ann Velenchik focuses on one of the key Millenium Development Goals -- ensuring that, by 2015, boys and girls alike will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. She notes how women spend money differently than men, and how educated women have fewer children, more widely spaced children, and healthier children.