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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.
Typical food products and geographical indications for sustainable development
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).
Women, SMEs and sustainable development - lessons learnt for the road ahead
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.
Women, SMEs and sustainable development
Upgrading SMEs in creative industries
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.
SMEs and the implementation of the SDGs
Sustainability of SMEs, the how and why
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.
SMEs and the implementation of the SDGs
COVID-19 has brought an opportunity we cannot miss
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.
Policy Coherence in times of COVID-19
What does policy coherence look like in a post-COVID world?
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.