Archive for September, 2018

Sustainable Development Goals (should) represent the best the international development community has to offer. They are aspirational and inspirational, comprehensive and inclusive.Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs include the public sector, the private sector and the individual. They break down the most complex challenges we are facing into what seems like manageable, bite-sized issues […]

Thanks to Richard Curtis and Project Everyone, the UN Sustainable Development Goals when released were communicated with a bang through beautiful, colorful and vibrant visualizations and videos. Being popularly coined as the ‘Global Goals', a catchier phrase than the Sustainable Development Goals, these campaigns created show stopping awareness but unintentionally opened doors to unauthentic tactics [...]

This week, Triple Pundit, one of the world’s leading sustainable business media platforms featured ampUz Founder Ayla Bajwa in a story that covered her journey with the UN Global Compact’s UAE chapter and why she has brought her background in technology and sustainability to create ampUz. You can read the article here: https://www.triplepundit.com/2018/08/meet-this-leader-striving-to-boost-the-effectiveness-of-the-un-global-compact-and-sdgs-in-dubai/ and follow […]