The Millenium Development Goals expire this year, and the international community is mobilizing to replace them.
Country representatives are currently in negotiations to build consensus around a new priority list for the next 15 years — a framework known as the sustainable development goals to be adopted at the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September.
So just how significant is this opportunity and what kind of impact will the new SDG framework actually have?
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Jeff Tyson@jtyson21
Jeff is a former global development reporter for Devex. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers multilateral affairs, U.S. aid, and international development trends. He has worked with human rights organizations in both Senegal and the U.S., and prior to joining Devex worked as a production assistant at National Public Radio. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and French from the University of Rochester.
