Worth Every Cent: Smarter Approaches to Addressing Fragility

80 per cent of the world’s poorest could be living in fragile contexts by 2030, making fragility one of the capital challenges to achieving sustainable development. Fragility is multidimensional and complex, and progress in fragile contexts is not easy. But instead of shying away from this task, the ambition of the international community must be stepped up. Foreign policy can help increase the efficacy of investments to tackle fragility.

adelphi's volume "Driving Transformative Change:Foreign Affairs and the 2030 Agenda", comprised by 6 provocative essays, explores what contributions foreign policy can make on the road to achieving sustainable ways of life and provide guidance by pointing out entry points, priorities and trade-offs. They aim to inspire actors around the world to work together to initiate and boost the necessary changes and keep winning over new like-minded partners.

More essays from the series

• Leadership for the SDGs: Why foreign policy must recharge multilateral cooperation now
• Beyond 16: The SDGs and the opportunity to build a more peaceful world
• Beware the politics: Leveraging Foreign Policy for SDG Implementation
• Managing the trade-offs of transformation through foreign policy
• Beyond Rhetoric: Why Foreign Policy Needs to Foster Private Sector SDG Implementation