Sustainable Development Goals

The global commitment to universal health coverage—target 3.8 of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development—is as ambitious as it is energizing. Ensuring everyone, everywhere around the world has access to quality health care without being forced into poverty will require stronger health systems t...

Overseas development assistance amounts to about $135 billion dollars annually, but the cost of paying for the Sustainable Development Goals will be in the trillions. As a result, blended finance is something of a buzz phrase these days. I left a workshop on blended finance last week in Paris excite...

Some 2.4 billion people lack widely-recognized forms of legal identity.  Over 600 million are children whose births have not been registered.  How can wider access to identity – now recognized for the first time as a development goal in SDG target 16.9 -- help to achieve the SDG...

We are dealing with a sexist data crisis. We know that poverty hits women and girls hard, but current data cannot precisely measure their poverty independently of that of families or households.