Sustainable Development Goals

“Transparency has the potential to transform the effectiveness of aid spending,” said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark at a recent CGD event co-hosted with Publish What You Fund to launch its 2016 Aid Transparency Index. For the second year running, UNDP comes out at the top of the in...

Cared for by her grandmother in a village in Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is emphatic that her experiences as a child are what led her into a career in public service and development. “I lived some of the issues that people are concerned about in development,” she explains in t...

After seeming to settle on 230 indicators to measure the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the United Nations has abruptly decided to adopt additional indicators for Agenda 2030. During its latest session, the Interagency Expert Group on the SDGs (IAEG-SDGs) determined that each of the...