Designing urban projects and sustainable development for developing communities,
The issue of sustainability has emerged as a critical issue that needs to be confronted and resolved immediately by the countries of the world.
International organizations have set various goals for countries to follow in order to achieve sustainability and combat crises such as climate change and social inequality.
The United Nations, for example, has set out an urgent sustainable development agenda for all countries to follow which consists of 17 sections, called the Sustainable Development Goals,
These goals must be achieved by 2030.
These Sustainable Development Goals aim to end poverty and hunger, enhance people’s well-being and education,
and access to clean water and sanitation, and other goals that lead to the spread of peace and prosperity among the different populations of the world.
After creating this agenda, the EU has demonstrated a remarkable
commitment to implementing the 17 SDGs by including them in its policies and initiatives as well as monitoring and reporting progress.
For example, the European Commission created the European Union Green
Bond Standard (GBS) in 2019 to encourage investors to get involved in green projects and sustainable initiatives.
In addition, in the European Green Deal,
the Commission planned to finance similar projects worth more than €1 trillion and decided to always take sustainability into account when making investment decisions.
Challenges of sustainable development in developing countries
One of the main challenges that different societies face when adopting sustainable development is confusion in creating standards.
Certain terms such as sustainability and efficiency must be clearly defined and explained
in order to be able to set achievable and measurable goals that can be monitored.
By monitoring its performance in sustainable development projects,
States are able to collect data that can be used for further research and that would, in turn,
Enhancing performance and accelerating procedures for achieving the goals of sustainable development.
In developing countries, some terms may be unfamiliar to local communities due to lack of awareness of the issue of sustainability.
But communication and information gathering are also challenging due to
fragmentation or even lack of data.
Most developing countries have weak statistical capacities and cannot respond to the SDGs’ growing demand for data.
For example, in the Middle East, there is a regional deficit in data on the performance of
Manage human resources when it comes to recruitment, retention and promotion processes,
This makes it difficult to track the region’s performance in achieving the fifth goal of
sustainable development, which is gender equality.
The future of sustainable development in developing countries
We cannot expect developing countries to achieve sustainability as easily as developed countries.
Instead, we should look at sustainable development as a way to understand factors
such as poverty and rapid urbanization that indicate whether or not economic development is possible.
That’s why, when you aim to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,
Organizations must be aware of the fact that factors such as poverty
and rapid urbanization are still very common in developing and underdeveloped parts of the world.
One way to achieve sustainable development in these countries is to put in place policies
First, to improve the living conditions of the less fortunate, so that later they can take care of their environment.
If such policies are not implemented in the near future, not only will efforts to achieve sustainability fail,
But we might also expect poverty to increase in many parts of the world.
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