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This article analyses the approaches taken by the reconceptualisation movement to find out whether it is still an enduring process in the frameworks of international social work. The conclusions reached are that the discourses of these organisations are still ostensibly politically committed, but their ideological position is very moderate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represented a key landmark in collaboration and shared agenda-setting to address global challenges across scales and geographies. However, despite initial optimism that measurable goals would support accountability and transparency in development, progress towards realising goals has been mixed. Global development agendas increasingly face challenges from the intensification of climate change, the return of populism and ethnonationalism, and a deepening of inequalities at intra- and inter-national scales. This article interrogates the priorities that must inform a critical post-SDG development agenda. To think towards this, we first explore three questions of the development agenda: 1) can development be sustainable? 2) Can development be delivered through markets? And 3) can development be 'global'? To address these tensions and take a first step towards a more critical post-2030 agenda, we call for a focus on spatialities, multiplicities and historicities of development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education and teacher education policies are embedded in heterogeneous national contexts, which entail priority setting and trade-offs, and which are influenced by global education agendas, such as the United Nations 2030 Agenda. This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of how global education agendas interact in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, using qualitative methodology. In the last decade, satisfaction with education provision and quality of education has declined, but a positive appreciation of the alignment of education with the labour market and teacher training persists, reflecting the incorporation of global agendas into national policies, albeit with a need for further analysis of the achievement of global education goals.

Education and teacher education policies are embedded in heterogeneous national contexts, which entail priority setting and trade-offs, and which are influenced by global education agendas, such as the United Nations 2030 Agenda. This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of how global education agendas interact in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, using qualitative methodology. In the last decade, satisfaction with education provision and quality of education has declined, but a positive appreciation of the alignment of education with the labour market and teacher training persists, reflecting the incorporation of global agendas into national policies, albeit with a need for further analysis of the achievement of global education goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background Global health agendas have in common the goal of contributing to population health outcome improvement. In theory therefore, whenever possible, country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and implementation towards their attainment should be synergistic such that efforts towards one agenda promote efforts towards the other agendas. Observation suggests that this is not what happens in practice. Potential synergies are often unrealized and fragmentation is not uncommon. In this paper we present findings from an exploration of how and why synergies and fragmentation occur in country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and implementation for the global health agendas of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Health Security (HS) and Health Promotion (HP) in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Our study design was a two country case study. Data collection involved document reviews and Key Informant interviews with national and sub-national level decision makers in both countries between July and December 2019. Additionally, in Ghana a stakeholder workshop in December 2019 was used to validate the draft analysis and conclusions. Results National and global context, country health systems leadership and structure including resources were drivers of synergies and fragmentation. How global as well as country level actors mobilized power and exercised agency in policy and program agenda setting and implementation processes within country were also important drivers. Conclusions There is potential in both countries to pull towards synergies and push against fragmentation in agenda setting, formulation and implementation of global health agendas despite the resource and other structural constraints. It however requires political and bureaucratic prioritization of synergies, as well as skilled leadership. It also requires considerable mobilization of country level actor exercise of agency to counter sometimes daunting contextual, systems and structural constraints.

Strong evidence shows that exposure and engagement with the natural world not only improve human wellbeing but can also help promote environmentally friendly behaviors. Human-nature relationships are at the heart of global agendas promoted by international organizations including the World Health Organization's (WHO) "One Health" and the United Nations (UN) "Ocean Decade." These agendas demand collaborative multisector interdisciplinary efforts at local, national, and global levels. However, while global agendas highlight global goals for a sustainable world, developing science that directly addresses these agendas from design through to delivery and outputs does not come without its challenges. In this article, we present the outcomes of international meetings between researchers, stakeholders, and policymakers from the United Kingdom and Brazil. We propose a model for interdisciplinary work under such global agendas, particularly the interface between One Health and the UN Ocean Decade and identify three priority research areas closely linked to each other: human-nature connection, conservation-human behavior, and implementation strategies (bringing stakeholders together). We also discuss a number of recommendations for moving forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strong evidence shows that exposure and engagement with the natural world not only improve human wellbeing but can also help promote environmentally friendly behaviors. Human-nature relationships are at the heart of global agendas promoted by international organizations including the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “One Health” and the United Nations (UN) “Ocean Decade.” These agendas demand collaborative multisector interdisciplinary efforts at local, national, and global levels. However, while global agendas highlight global goals for a sustainable world, developing science that directly addresses these agendas from design through to delivery and outputs does not come without its challenges. In this article, we present the outcomes of international meetings between researchers, stakeholders, and policymakers from the United Kingdom and Brazil. We propose a model for interdisciplinary work under such global agendas, particularly the interface between One Health and the UN Ocean Decade and identify three priority research areas closely linked to each other: human-nature connection, conservation-human behavior, and implementation strategies (bringing stakeholders together). We also discuss a number of recommendations for moving forward.

Since Decision 29 COM 7B.a of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in 2005, the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies have been tackling the threats posed by climate change to cultural and natural World Heritage properties. Great attention is paid to impacts and projected risks, and hence vulnerability assessment, risk preparedness, awareness raising, monitoring, adaptation and mitigation, but very little attention is paid to development in World Heritage properties and their buffer zones. While it is important to prevent loss and damage and to protect attributes of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) identified in the past, this article argues that integrating climate action into the planning of future development is also important to implement global agendas. It proposes operationalising the concept of compatibility in World Heritage Climate Change Policy to proactively promote climate-resilient, energy-efficient and low-emissions new development projects that are compatible with their local contexts not only to engage States Parties in climate action, but also to prevent adverse effects on 'integrity' including attributes of OUV. This article, therefore, puts forward new thinking and proposes new directions for policy and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cities are playing an increasingly prominent role on the global policy stage, and in the process have established moreformalised international engagements. However, there is an incomplete understanding about the types and levels of capacity needed for such engagement. This study offers an examination of the underpinnings of "city diplomacy". It confirms that cities recognise the importance of city diplomacy but also lack necessary resources to fulfill the commitments they make to global agendas. The article calls for action on three fronts : more effective training, formalised multilateral engagement , and stronger city-level diplomatic capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Global health agendas have in common the goal of contributing to population health outcome improvement. In theory therefore, whenever possible, country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and implementation towards their attainment should be synergistic such that efforts towards one agenda promote efforts towards the other agendas. Observation suggests that this is not what happens in practice. Potential synergies are often unrealized and fragmentation is not uncommon. In this paper we present findings from an exploration of how and why synergies and fragmentation occur in country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and implementation for the global health agendas of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Health Security (HS) and Health Promotion (HP) in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Our study design was a two country case study. Data collection involved document reviews and Key Informant interviews with national and sub-national level decision makers in both countries between July and December 2019. Additionally, in Ghana a stakeholder workshop in December 2019 was used to validate the draft analysis and conclusions.Results: National and global context, country health systems leadership and structure including resources were drivers of synergies and fragmentation. How global as well as country level actors mobilized power and exercised agency in policy and program agenda setting and implementation processes within country were also important drivers.Conclusions: There is potential in both countries to pull towards synergies and push against fragmentation in agenda setting, formulation and implementation of global health agendas despite the resource and other structural constraints. It however requires political and bureaucratic prioritization of synergies, as well as skilled leadership. It also requires considerable mobilization of country level actor exercise of agency to counter sometimes daunting contextual, systems and structural constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on education in Guinea-Bissau in the context of globalisations, examining the concept of globalisation and its relation to education and the curriculum. It focuses on the relatively neglected area of national education policies in Guinea-Bissau, comparing differences and common points of interference/influence of multilateral (international and regional) and bilateral organisations in these policies. Data collection was based on content analysis of a corpus of documents – the Education Act, the document of Portuguese Cooperation Programme, the Education Sector Policy Paper, the Education for All National Plan of Action, and Policy n. 3/2007/CM/UEMOA – and field notes collected from 2009 to 2012. The article argues that there is a tendency for the homogenisation of curriculum policies, at least at the macro-level, due to the different types of pressures coming from international/regional organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article deals with the way in which global problems break into the contemporary mass media and advertising agendas. It is frequently assumed that poverty's, inequality's, and migration's agendas have been present in mass media's production, yet the way in which the former problems are incorporated turn out to be "dubious" if only because we are facing a typical contemporary socio-cultural phenomenon whereby information on critical problems are displaced or transferred to genres that belong much more to what we could call the social imaginary sphere rather than proper public opinion. Thus, for example, the creation, in publicity and advertising, of what is known as brand name impact by playing with the representations and cultures of "others" or by using the aforementioned global problems as effect devises, residues, pseudoamalgamations or sheer commodities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]