Human development is an approach focusing on creating fair opportunities and choices for all people. The human development approach remains useful to articulating the objectives of development and improving people’s well-being by ensuring an equitable, sustainable and stable planet. There is a wide range of services for government and private organizations under this umbrella; all of them, will strengthen their management, strategies and public image.
Climate change (CC) presents the biggest threat to sustainable development everywhere. Its widespread, unprecedented impacts disproportionately burden the poorest and most vulnerable (UN, 2015). Urgent action to halt CC and deal with its impacts is integral to achieve all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All stakeholders are accountable to implement strategies oriented to reduce the impact of CC on human’s life.
Socio-environmental issues are essential for resource development and climate change because they encompass the complex interplay between human activities and the natural environment, highlighting the need for sustainable practices. As societies exploit natural resources for development, the resulting environmental degradation and climate change impacts, such as biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and increased greenhouse gas emissions, threaten the very foundation of human well-being and economic stability.
Cross-Cutting Areas
Gender
Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people. All projects implemented by any government or private organization should take into account gender to achieve the SDGs 2030.
Governance
Governance is all the processes of interactions be they through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society over a social system (family, tribe, formal or informal organization, a territory or across territories). Any organization have to adapt their structure, process and relationships with other stakeholders to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
Technology Innovation
A technological innovation is a new or improved product or process whose technological characteristics are significantly different from before. Current challenges of climate change and the necessity to achieve the SDGs by 2030 require the incorporation of new technologies into projects.
All services FORTALECE provides include three cross-cutting areas: gender, government, and technology innovation
