SUM Blog: - Researchers who want to engage with policy-makers may have to resist the attraction of complexity, while still displaying their valuable constructive and critical faculties, writes Desmond McNeill on the SUM Blog.
Vårt Land: Undernutrition in some form affects one third of the world's population, writes Kari Helene Partapuoli and Dan Banik in Vårt Land.
Vårt Land: Only 1/10 Norwegians believe that poverty can be eliminated by 2030. - Success will also depend on how we deal with factors such as war and conflict, environmental disasters, food production and job creation, argues Dan Banik.
Full interview here (Behind paywall. NB! In Norwegian)
Dagens Næringsliv: Private sector efforts towards the Sustainable Development Goals must not end in failure. That will require division of responsibility and long-term dedication, argue Benedicte Bull and Dan Banik.
Full text here (Behind paywall. NB! In Norwegian)
Vårt Land: "We obviously face great challenges, but we have also accomplished a lot, something we tend to ignore" says Dan Banik. He is now offering the course «What Works: Promising Practices in International Development» for the 3rd time.
Full text here (Behind paywall. NB! In Norwegian)
Bistandsaktuelt: It has been two years since the SDGs were put on the international development agenda. Dan Banik reflects on what the world has achieved so far, who have shown the greatest interest for the new agenda and, not least, where the challenges lie ahead. Full text here (NB! In Norwegian)
Global Policy: Dan Banik and Jason Miklian show how and why the private sector's role in sustainable development has become a $2 trillion shadow industry, and ask what this change means for the future of development and even the liberal international order itself. You can read the full article here.