The document summarizes the key differences between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It outlines 18 challenges that hindered full progress of the MDGs, including lack of synergy between goals, limited funding, and political instability. It then describes 16 positive aspects of the SDGs that address the MDG challenges, such as their comprehensive, universal nature that includes both developing and developed countries and focuses on issues like climate change and gender equality.

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18 Challenges of MDG and
16 Positive Scopes of SDG
 May 4, 2018
 Sandesh Adhikari
 Global Health
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MDG had eight international development goals which were to be
achieved by 2015. These goals were related to poverty, hunger,
maternal and child mortality, communicable disease, education,
gender inequality, environmental damage and global partnership.
Though MDG actions helped nations to grow and flourish on these
indicators, the expected level of progress could not be attained in all
the indicators in all the countries. Different levels of analysis and
study found that there were multiple factors that hindered the full
progress of MDG.
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18 Challenges in achieving MDG were:
1. Lack of synergy among the goals
2. Global economic crisis
3. Lack of interconnectivity between the goals
4. Less consideration to environmental and economic dimensions
5. Narrowed focus to equity issues. Example: gender focus was
only explicitly mentioned in MDG 3 and 5 while missing on
other goals
6. Limited understanding about the holistic concept of MDG
among public health professionals
7. Lack of full ownership and leadership
8. Lack of transparency in the use of MDG resources
9. Lack of enabling environment
10. Limited funding for gender equality and women rights
11. Lack of policy space for poorer countries
12. Political instability
13. Existing gaps between the poorest and the richest; rural and
the urban areas
14. Compromised focus on climate change and environmental
degradation
15. Conflicts and disputes within and among the countries
16. Lack of access to basic health services
17. Although not explicitly explained, goals of MDG were mainly
centered on the issues of underdeveloped and developing
countries
18. Less goals focused for developed nations
On the other hand, SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) are bold
universal agreements to end poverty in all its dimensions and craft an
equal, just and secure world. It has 17 goals and 169 targets and was
accepted by 193-member states at the UN General Assembly Summit
on September 2015.
Six essential elements for delivering the SDGs and their
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Source: United Nations, Rwanda
For more information about SDG, please refer to
https://publichealthnotes.com/need-know-sustainable-
development-goals-sdg/.
Detailed analysis of the positive aspects of SDG are given below:
16 Positive aspects of SDG:
1. It meets the urgent environmental, political and economic
challenges of the world
2. Global and international issues addressed more
comprehensively
3. SDG’s are universal where all the countries are equally involved
in the implementation i.e. proper inclusion of both developing
and developed nations
4. All 17 goals are interconnected with each other which creates
huge possibility of synergistic effect towards achieving the
goals
5. Issues of climate change, natural resources, gender equality,
peace and inclusiveness are evenly prioritized
6. Provides reaffirmation to the international commitment of
ending poverty
7. Comprehensive vision and framework which includes issues
that affect all
8. Focus on empowering of women and girls
9. Priorities to inclusiveness and environmental sustainability
10. Multidimensionality of SDG where development is seen as a
system rather than enhancement in individual conditions

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11. Broad and ambitious nature of all goals and their targets
12. High level of data disaggregation. This will help to understand
the local, national, regional and international status quo of
different aspects in more detail
13. Inclusive and participatory goals
14. Distinguishes hunger from poverty
15. Enclosure of peace building and governance related goals
16. SDG also focuses on generating local resources for funding the
goals
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I am Sandesh Adhikari, a dreamer, thinker,
researcher and an activist.
Professionally and
academically, I am a public health graduate and
have completed Masters in Public Health (MPH) as
WHO-TDR Scholar. I have worked under different thematic areas of
health, nutrition, HIV and AIDS, youth engagement, research etc.,
targeting diverse audience of different age groups. Currently, I am
working as a Public Health Program Coordinator in one of the leading
Non-Governmental Organization.
In global arena, I have represented
Nepal and Asia- Pacific in different international platforms like United
Nations supported programs in Netherlands, World Universities

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