How Can the Global Alliance for Resilience Contribute to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals?

By Ousman Tall. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were globally attained but while Sub-Saharan Africa reduced poverty levels from 56.5% in 1990 to 48.4% in 2010, it did not achieve the target of reducing the poverty rate in half – to 28.25 % – by 2015. More...