UN SDG:Learn Blogs present a series of blogs with a reflection on sustainable development governance, policies and actions. The blogs aim to strengthen conceptual and practical knowledge, spread ideas, share practical experiences and pinpoint important but understudied or under-discussed challenges related to the implementation of the SDGs. It will do so by highlighting a certain theme relevant for the SDGs throughout each series of blogs and interviews over a defined period of time, on the one hand, and by generating relevant micro-learning to meet the needs of UNSDG:Learn users – current and future – when it comes to short bits of learning on key SDG topics, on the other. You will hear from a range of experts, incl. UN experts, scholars, other practitioners, representatives of various stakeholder groups, or all those who have something important to say on the issue at stake.
UN SDG:LearnBlog
21/07/2022
Nuria Ackerman Ebe Muschialli Fabio Russo
This article addresses the growing potential of the traditional agri-food industry, its transformative power to support inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development, and the opportunity for SMEs to unlock the value-added of their products with Geographical Indications (GIs).
UN SDG:LearnBlog
05/07/2022
Cecilia Ugaz Estrada Carmen Schuber
This blog talks about the women entrepreneurs as key agents in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and SDGs. It discusses the challenges of women-led businesses, global trends and proposes suggestions for overcoming these challenges and strengthening women-led entrepreneurship.
UN SDG:LearnBlog
13/04/2022
Riccardo Savigliano
The article provides an overview of UNIDO technical assistance projects and tools targeting SMEs and their clusters active in the creative industry. It explores how digitalization-based business management practices, industrial design, branding are strategically linked to local cultural heritage.
UN SDG:LearnBlog
16/02/2022
Robert Marinkovic
IOE is fully aware of the crucial role SMEs play in improving the business environment at the country level and needs to be involved in more public-private collaboration and discussion. SMEs face many challenges, conventional and novel, and we have to think differently about how best to help them.
UN SDG:LearnBlog
01/12/2021
Dr. Andrea M. Bassi
COVID-19 has accelerated every transition we can think of. It has taught us that change is possible, that we already know what to do, and that the time to act is now. It has shown us that there is only one way forward for a more sustainable future: we need to use a systemic approach.
UN SDG:LearnBlog
14/07/2021
Måns Nilsson
COVID recovery is an issue of policy coherence – Do we build back as quickly as possible, or build back greener and better? And what does this look like?We need to make some hard choices based on comprehensive information of potential impacts across society.
