Meeting the SDGs: creating innovative infrastructures and policy solutions to support sustainable development in Global South communities (GS-DEV)

GS-DEV在保健、营养、教育和环境领域提出了四个具有巨大创新和影响潜力的跨学科项目。将收集和分析来自这些项目的证据和教训，以制定一般性准则，以改进未来基于官方发展援助署的研究项目的影响。1)与区域合作伙伴（巴西、约旦、马来西亚和泰国）和监管机构/制造商一起开发儿童微量营养素补充剂，使用当地采购的材料，并建立他们的研发能力，以便将来独立开发类似产品。创意写作和电影制作将允许i)与用户（儿童、青少年和家长）、公众和地方政府就均衡营养饮食对儿童生长发育的重要性进行沟通/参与，ii)讨论营养不良的复杂原因。2)解决印度的粮食和营养不安全问题，这是绝大多数妇女和儿童面临的问题，特别是在农村和土著社区。这将通过与社区，特别是妇女团体、青年团体和学生合作来实现，以产生和分享关于可持续粮食系统的知识，特别是生产选择和技术、饮食和消费习惯及其与健康和营养结果的关系。使用一系列创意工具和策略生成的内容，将通过交互式音频社区媒体平台进行通知和大规模共享；为智能手机用户提供一个移动应用程序，为社区需求提供24小时实时响应。将通过在地方、区域、国家和国际等多个层面对教育机构、政府工作人员和广大公众进行能力建设来确保可持续性。3)为家庭扫盲制定一种更可持续、更相关和“自下而上”的方法，融入人们的日常活动和可影响家庭福祉和生计的土著学习做法。与教科文组织终身学习研究所和埃塞俄比亚、尼泊尔、马拉维和菲律宾的教科文组织东安尼亚大学合作，将对代际学习和知识创造的土著方法进行比较民族志研究，同时对这些国家现有的家庭扫盲方案进行文献分析。该项目包括研究政策互动和传播活动，以吸引国际、国家和地方利益相关者。它的主要贡献将是使决策者和教育工作者注意到目前成人/家庭识字教学的主流方法与成人和儿童在日常生活中学习的方式之间的脱节，以便加强教育对可持续发展的贡献。4)在马来西亚建立一个由学者、行业合作伙伴和政策制定者组成的网络，以确定和量化微塑料的分布，并评估其潜在的环境风险。在全球范围内，约有一半的塑料总产量用于一次性包装；每年大约有1000万到1400万吨的塑料最终进入海洋。塑料逐渐分解，产生越来越小的微塑料，这些微塑料被作为食物网重要组成部分的各种生物吃掉，并对它们造成压力。计算水和沉积物中的微塑料是一项挑战。通过持续的合作工作，已经开发出一种廉价而快速的方法来绘制微塑料水平和分布在一系列栖息地和生态系统中的地图。除了提供简单的设备外，该网络还将编制一份多语文录像手册，以协助其使用，并确保数据比较做法的一致性。一部“公共信息”电影将通过一系列媒体选择向公众和政策影响者传播与微塑料有关的问题和研究结果。

GS-DEV propose four interdisciplinary projects in the areas of health, nutrition, education and environment with great potential for innovation and impact. Evidence and lessons from these projects will be collected and analysed to develop general guidelines for improving the impact of future ODA-based research projects.1) Development of child micronutrient supplements with regional partners (Brazil, Jordan, Malaysia & Thailand) and regulatory bodies/manufacturers using locally sourced materials and building their R&D capabilities to enable future development of similar products independently. Creative writing and film-making will allow i) communication/engagement with users (children, youth and parents), the general public and the local government on the importance of balanced nutritional diet for child growth & development, and ii) debate the complex causes of malnutrition.2) Address food and nutrition insecurity in India, a problem confronting a vast majority of women and children, especially in rural, indigenous communities. This will be achieved by working with communities, especially women's groups, youth groups and students to generate and share knowledge on sustainable food systems, in particular production choices and technologies, diets and consumption practices, and their relationship to health and nutrition outcomes. Content, generated using a range of creative tools and strategies, will inform and be shared at scale through an interactive, audio community media platform; supplemented by a mobile app for smartphone users, to provide 24-h real-time response to community needs. Sustainability will be ensured through capacity-building of educational institutions, government functionaries and the wider public at multiple scales - local, regional, national and international.3) Development of a more sustainable, relevant and 'bottom-up' approach to family literacy, embedded in people's everyday activities and indigenous learning practices that can influence family well-being and livelihoods. In collaboration with UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and UEA UNESCO Chair partner universities in Ethiopia, Nepal, Malawi & the Philippines, comparative ethnographic studies will be conducted on indigenous approaches to intergenerational learning and knowledge creation, alongside documentary analysis of existing family literacy programmes in these countries. The project includes research-policy interaction and dissemination activities to engage international, national and local stakeholders. Its major contribution will be to bring policy makers' and educators' attention to the disjunction between current mainstream approaches to adult/family literacy instruction and the ways in which adults and children learn in everyday life in order to enhance the contribution of education to sustainable development.4) Build a network of academics, industry partners and policy-makers in Malaysia to identify and quantify the distribution of microplastics and assess its potential environmental risks. Globally, around half of total plastic production is used for single-use packaging; around 10-14 million tonnes of this ends up in the oceans every year. Plastic gradually breaks down to produce ever-smaller microplastics, which are eaten by and cause stress to a wide variety of organisms that are vital parts of food webs. Counting microplastics in water and sediments is challenging. Through ongoing collaborative work, a cheap and quick methodology has been developed to map microplastic levels and distribution across a range of habitats and ecosystems. Alongside supplying simple equipment, the network will develop a multilingual video manual to aid its use and ensure consistency of practice for data comparisons. A "public information" film will disseminate microplastics-associated problems and research findings to the general public and policy influencers through a range of media options.