ABSTRACT
The Global Association of MDP programs was launched when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were being pursued to address challenges associated with extreme poverty and other development priorities. The transition from MDGs to SDGs beginning in 2015 brought several significant shifts in the United Nations global development framework, including a more holistic and integrative approach, new attention to inequalities, centering of environmental issues and their linkage to other development goals, and a broader ambit to include Global North and South as well as a wider range of actors. The chapter considers the shift from MDGs to SDGs, the relationship between the SDGs and education for sustainable development (ESD) and how changes in the global development landscape connected with curricular innovations across MDP programs. This chapter explores how the SDGs have been integrated into MDP programs across the MDP Global Association and how different institutions are striving to contribute to this global agenda, concluding with what these curricular adaptations reveal about the MDP curriculum and educational philosophy.
