Development Principles

Agricultural development encompasses strategies to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability, enhancing food security and livelihoods, particularly in developing countries.

Agricultural policy encompasses the laws, regulations, and actions governments undertake to influence agricultural production, distribution, and markets.

Capacity building is the process of strengthening the abilities of individuals, organizations, and systems to perform core functions, solve problems, and achieve objectives sustainably.

Child poverty refers to the state of deprivation experienced by children, encompassing a lack of essential resources and opportunities necessary for their well-being and development.

Data privacy is the appropriate use of data, encompassing consent, notice, and regulatory obligations.

Digital development leverages digital technologies to address development challenges and improve the lives of people in low- and middle-income countries.

Digital governance encompasses the policies, processes, and standards that guide the use of digital technologies and data to achieve organizational and societal goals.

Digital inclusion ensures everyone can access and use digital technologies, regardless of background or location, to improve their lives.

Digital literacy encompasses the skills to effectively and responsibly use technology to access, evaluate, create, and communicate information.

Open-source solutions, data, AI models, standards and content that contribute to sustainable development and are freely accessible to everyone.

Foundational digital systems that enable inclusive, secure and interoperable access to essential services at population scale.

Environmental policy encompasses the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning natural resources and environmental quality.

Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.

Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.

Gender mainstreaming is a strategy for making women's and men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes.

Human development is a paradigm focused on expanding people's freedoms and opportunities, enabling them to live long, healthy, and fulfilling lives.

Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe fundamental rights that all people everywhere in the world possess simply because they are human.

A Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) integrates human rights principles into policies, programs, and practices to address inequalities and promote sustainable development.

Humanitarian assistance is aid provided to people in distress during crises, aiming to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity.

Humanitarian principles are fundamental tenets guiding humanitarian action, ensuring aid is delivered effectively, impartially, and without causing harm.

Inequality refers to the unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, and power among individuals or groups within a society.

The informal economy encompasses economic activities that operate outside the formal regulatory framework, often characterized by a lack of legal protection, social security, and formal contracts.

A Just Transition ensures that as economies shift towards sustainability, workers and communities are not left behind but are instead supported through the changes.

Open data is data that is freely available to everyone to use and republish without restriction, promoting transparency, innovation, and collaboration.

Publicly available specifications that enable interoperability, data exchange, and compatibility between different systems and technologies.

Poverty is a state of lacking essential resources and capabilities, hindering well-being and participation in society.

Poverty reduction encompasses strategies and interventions aimed at alleviating and eliminating poverty, enabling individuals and communities to achieve a basic standard of living.

Poverty traps are self-reinforcing mechanisms that prevent individuals, families, or communities from escaping poverty.

The rule of law is a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated, and which are consistent with international human rights norms and standards.

Social cohesion refers to the degree of connection and solidarity within a community or society.

Social exclusion is a multidimensional process preventing individuals or groups from fully participating in society's economic, social, and political life.

Social inclusion is the process of improving the terms of participation in society, particularly for people who are disadvantaged, through enhancing opportunities, access to resources, voice, and respect for rights.

Sustainability is the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.

Universal access ensures that essential services and resources are available and accessible to everyone, regardless of their location, socio-economic status, or other demographic factors.