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While we will continue to use the OFID Quarterly to showcase our work as a development finance institution, we have made the conscious decision to turn our focus outward to include what other actors are doing in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), too. We believe this is the correct decision for the following reasons:
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OFID works closely with organizations such the World Bank, specialized agencies of the United Nations, regional development banks and the bilateral and multilateral agencies of OFID member countries. Shining a light on their successes benefits OFID too, and ultimately helps share best practices across the global development arena. This is in line with SDG 17, which calls on us all to ‘revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development’.
The OFID Quarterly, like OFID itself, aims to help shape the development agenda and move the conversation about SDGs, progress and prosperity forward. To do this, the magazine needs to offer highly relevant and unique content sourced not only from OFID, but from around the world. We believe this will appeal to a broader readership – not simply of development professionals, but of policy-makers and people working in both the public and private sectors, of economists and academics, of social entrepreneurs and students.
This re-launch edition focuses on SDG 9 and considers some of the stories surrounding the building of resilient infrastructure, promoting sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation. Did you know, for example, that telecommunications infrastructure has improved dramatically in Africa, even though 600 million Africans lack access to electricity? Or that private investment in infrastructure in Latin America is significantly higher than in other developing regions, even though it invests the least in infrastructure among developing regions? And who knew there was an Uber-like app solution to tractor access in Africa that’s helping to cut farming costs by up to 40 percent? Or that behavioral sciences (a combination of psychology, economics and neuroscience that examines how people make decisions) is being used to help reduce gender- based violence in the Arab region?
Please let us know your thoughts about this edition and your views on development in general via
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