Dear All
Brief details of the paper published in the Journal of Desh Vikas were pasted below as:
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SDGs
– OPPORTUNITIES FOR NGOs FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Lakshmi Narayana
N
Mentor
Geo
Rehabilitation Centre, Hyderabad.
ABSTRACT
The availability of
resources and level and quality of development moves together to reach targeted
groups living all over the Globe both quantitatively and qualitatively. It is
the fact that selected countries are shining or developing but the benefits of
the development are not uniform over the region and people. The benefits of
development dominated by business model limits its reach to the people and
further widen the gap between rich and poor. This further creates crises for
the larger population even for the basic needs. Millennium Development Goals on
one side resulted for several advantages & benefits but on the second side
suffered with several limitations & challenges. Sustainability of the
outputs and benefits was the major concern. This has supported to move towards
Sustainable Development Goals with priorities to the poor and other
marginalized groups. SDGs have opened up several opportunities to the
Government, Private and other Stakeholders to make the goals into reality with
better participation, accountability, responsibility and transparency. The
initiatives taken up in this direction have resulted for significant change in
the specified areas and groups. Among other stakeholders, Non Governmental
Organizations do play a key role in working at grassroots with the people, by
the people and for the people. The proposed model of Government-Private-NGO
Partnership will work on the concept of design, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation for utilizing the resources on one side and transferring the
benefits to all in an accessible and inclusive community. The strategies,
initiatives and models are simple, flexible, scalable, replicable and
sustainable.
Key Words: Resources, Development, Quality, Sustainability,
Accessible, Inclusive, Environment, Community, Quality of Life.
Statement of the Problem
The results, outputs,
& impact of Development are not uniform over the geography and people which
further widen the gap between urban and rural and rich and poor resulting
challenges, vulnerabilities or isolation with poor quality of life (QOL).
Conclusions
The study made has got
the priority as the need of the hour is to work for the integrated and
sustainable development with community initiatives. The conclusions emerged
include:
- Utilization
of resources and development works and travel together for improving the
health and wealth of the people living all over the Globe.
- In
processes of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization though brought
development on one side but on the other side widened the gap between the
urban and rural and rich and poor. The achieved development is not uniform
over the geography and people.
- Availability,
accessibility and affordability (3As) of resources in general and
particularly human critical needs for all have got several limitations.
- The
service delivery systems (SDSs) which are mostly dominated by the top down
approaches (TDAs) do limit the reach both quantitatively and qualitatively.
- The
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came in 2000 and worked up to 2015 with
specific goals and provided several benefits to the targeted groups.
- MDGs
have got several limitation and challenges in reaching the poorest of the
poor in respect of poverty, hunger, education, gender, health,
environment, and global partnership. The other areas include: Legal Frame,
Structure, Content, Process, Resources, Access, Disability,
Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation and enforcement which are necessary
for reaching the targeted groups both quantitatively and qualitatively.
- The
target of achieving the sustainability covering: Social Development, Economical
Development, Individual Development & Environmental Development does
have several limitations and challenges in balancing these components
which includes: business oriented development; poor participation;
exploitation of resources; loss of land & livelihoods; dominated by
TDAs; low production & productivity; limited scope for food security;
hazards & disasters; unhealthy migration; and crises for basic needs
which finally ends up with limited inclusion with poor quality of life (QOL).
- After
MDGs, covering its limitations & challenges, SDGs came in to operation
for the period of 15 years (2015-2030) with Seventeen Goals. It aims to
utilizes the resources for the development with better Universality,
Integrations and Transformation.
- The
Voluntary National Review Report (2015-17) on the implementation of SDGs has
shown positive and significant achievement and framed to continue the
process for achieving its targets with better quality and sustainability.
- SDGs
have opened up several opportunities which include: people oriented
development, effective participation & ownership, mapping &
utilization of resources, better use of water & land, development for
all, shift towards bottom up approaches, priority for SEIE, ecofriendly
environment, higher production & productivity, innovation for food
security, preparedness for DRR, livelihood & entrepreneurship, 3As for
basic needs, GO-Private-NGO Partnership with DIME, and one for all &
all are for one.
- All
such opportunities will certainly work for the effective implementation and
achievement of the targets of SDGs with better sharing of benefits and
thus to achieve Sustainable Development (SD), and Quality of Life (QOL) in
an accessible, inclusive, and empowered (AIE) environments & communities.
- NGOs do play a greater role to work
with Government and Private (including Corporate) on partnership basis for
the effective implementation of the SDGs and to reach the targeted groups
both quantitatively and qualitatively living all over the Nation.
- All such processes and partnerships
work for better inclusion, achieving development with sustainability, and
improving quality of life in an accessible, ecofriendly, inclusive,
empowered, sustained environments & communities.
- The initiatives including: mapping & management of mineral
resources; Mapping of Water Resources & Management; Land Management - RR;
Pollution & Ecofriendly Environment; Quality & Inclusive Education
– RTE; Development of HR; Skill Development & Livelihoods; Model of Village
Development; Mentoring CSOs; Government – Private - NGO Partnership;
Advocacy – RTI; Trainings, Workshops & Seminars; Documentation &
Publication; Sharing & Dissemination – E Forums have been taken up by
the author.
The initiatives and its further consequences have helped
various groups to get better information and solution with dynamic connectivity
and are going on to reach the groups both quantitatively and qualitatively. The
models and initiatives of the study are simple, flexible, replicable, scalable
and sustainable matching to the dynamics of the given environment.
Recommendations
The recommendations made
for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals matching to the needs of
the people include:
1) Translation
of the SDGs documents in to local languages with better visibility, availability,
accessibility and affordability.
2) Conduct
more and more trainings, workshop, and seminars by Educational Institutes,
Research Institutes, National Institutes and other Agencies & Forums.
3) Encourage
Students for taking up Project Works and Research Studies on SDGs with grass
root realities.
4) Encourage
Community particularly Women for active participation starting from
conceptualization to auditing as they are the key group to be empowered for achieving
sustainable development with quality.
5)
Encourage
NGOs to work with Government, Private, and Corporate on partnership model (GPN)
tuning to designing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation (DIME) with effective
Social Auditing.
6)
The
Developed Countries should take leading role to support underdeveloped and developing
countries with matching technological and financial resources.
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Looking forward for better sharing and dissemiantion.
With thanks
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