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Poverty reduction / SDGs / Sustainability / Governance / Migration / MDGs / sustainability / governance / migration

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow (hereafter the Fellow) joined the UNU-IAS in late October 2016. Since then, the fellow has made an excellent progress in carrying out the proposed research project, and producing scholarly and policy outputs. For the Year 2018 until the end of the fellowship period, the fellow drafted scholarly papers, presented papers at the international conferences to share the key findings of the research, and conducted a second round of fieldwork in Laos. To illustrate it, in terms of publication, the fellow has published two policy briefs: one on UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) focusing on progress made and challenges faced in the Asia-Pacific region, and the other policy brief on focusing on inclusive development of Nepal. In addition, he has drafted and submitted two manuscripts to international journals for publications. The fellow delivered two presentations at international conferences/symposium in Brazil and Nepal during this period. He also conducted a second round of fieldwork in Laos to further understand the progress in the implementation of SDGs at the local level and the role of agriculture and migration for achieving SDGs. In short, the final year FY2018 has been very productive for publishing and sharing outputs of the research project.

SDGs / MDGs / Environmental Governance / Sustainability / climate change / LDCs / policy / intellectual property / 持続可能な開発目標(SDGs) / ミレニアム開発目標(MDGs) / 環境ガバナンス / 持続可能性 / 気候変動 / 後発開発途上国(LDCs) / 科学技術政策 / 技術移転

I have published one journal article and made three research presentation based on my research result so far. I tried to address gaps in environmental governance and transformation for the Sustainable Development Goals in some selected countries in general and Bangladesh and Sweden, in particular for gaining environmental sustainability and also for national preparedness toward the SDGs. While aiming this goal, my research made a diagnostic status of the current progress on environmental governance in Bangladesh and some other countries through development indicators to achieve MDGs and their determinants in relations to environmental sustainability. I have conducted some case study in Bangladesh and Sweden.
I visited Sweden to do a case study on the SDGs and UNFCCC process, climate compatible development and environmental governance from the perspectives of an OECD Country such as Sweden. To fulfill the objectives of case study, I conducted interviews with academics and researchers at the Stockholm University, KTH, Uppsala University and Swedish Patent office. I also presented in the area of my research at United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and The Pacific (UNESCAP), Swedish Patent office and also at the experts workshop on low carbon technologies jointly arranged by UNU-IAS and IGES. I collected some very important documents on environmental governance, SDGs and state of governance in Sweden, which really helped me to refine my ongoing research further.