Lessons Learned in Implementing the MDGs PDF Download

Author: Bartholomew K. Armah
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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This year's report highlights innovative policies and progammes which countries have adopted to accelerate progress on the MDGs, such as the deployment of community members as health workers, Niger's Ecole des Maris (School for Husbands) initiative, and the establishment of community-run and -funded schools. It is our hope that publicizing such success stories will not only help document policy innovations for SDG implementation, but also keep the focus on the unfinished business of the MDGs as countries and the global community make the transition to implementation of the post-2015 Development Agenda. The report demonstrates that sustaining and advancing beyond the gains made under the MDGs require new approaches which embrace all three dimensions of sustainability -- the environmental, economic and social. Progress under the SDGs will be assessed not only by the results achieved, but also by considering how they were achieved. Method will assume greater relevance in the post-2015 development paradigm.

Author: M. Monirul Azam
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Languages : en
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted sustainable development goals (SDGs), which intended to end poverty and achieve people's well-being and environmental sustainability by 2030. On the other hand, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were primarily aimed at ending extreme poverty in all its forms in developing countries. The most important departure from this is that the SDGs explicitly broaden the focus to all countries - including the developed countries as sustainability cannot be achieved in isolation. The SDGs provide a unique opportunity for shaping law, policy and institutions across the globe for the implementation of effective and ambitious plan of action to deliver sustainability for all. However, as some of the least developed countries (LDCs), see SDGs as an extension of MDGs, MDG-2 or MDGs plus, they might be tempted to adopt the MDGs approach while implementing the SDGs. Again, in the developed world, certain goals will matter much more, and efforts can be tailored to reflect this in their SDG implementation strategy. That is why, it is vital to understand the lessons learned from the implementation of MDGs and negotiations of SDGs. It is also crucial to understand, how to use specific goals strategically in order to press for change and how to link several goals to generate co-benefits and complementary effects in an effort to create coherence between international norms to domestic policies. It is important to have a supportive and robust legal framework and institutions to build partnerships among global and governmental institutions and private entities to strengthen the three inter-linked pillars of sustainability (social, economic and environmental). This work is a case study on Bangladesh and Sweden that aims to understand relevant policies and institutional approaches towards a coherent, transformative and integrated approach for the achievement of SDGs.

Author: Awortwi, Nicholas
Publisher: OSSREA
ISBN: 9994455826
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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This book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases; and the book presents resulting lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda. The studies are against the background that in September 2000, world leaders from 189 countries, including 147 Heads of State, gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to consider the challenges of the new millennium. They adopted the Millennium Declaration, which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization: UN 2000 (A/RES/55/2). The leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that conditions of extreme poverty are eradicated wherever they existed. To realise this declaration, the UN established eight MDGs to be achieved by 2015. The goals were broken down into 18 concrete targets and 48 indicators to track progresses in implementation. For the years lost 2000, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been striving to achieve the goals. So far, some have achieved some of the goals, and the results toward the rest of the goals are also by and large positive, though off-target.

Author: Nathan Andrews
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319161660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa’s development post-2015. It assesses the current state of the MDGs in Africa by outlining the successes, gaps and failures of the state goals, including lessons learned. A unique feature of the book is the exposition on post-MDG’s agenda for Africa’s development. Chapters on poverty, south-south partnership, aid, gender, empowerment, health as well as governance and development explore what feasible alternative lie ahead for Africa beyond the expiry date of the MDGs.

Author: Nicholas Awortwi
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9994455907
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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In September 2000, world leaders from 189 countries, including 147 Heads of State, gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to consider the challenges of the new millennium. They adopted the Millennium Declaration, which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization (UN 2000 (A/RES/55/2)). The leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that conditions of extreme poverty are eradicated wherever they existed. To actualise this declaration, the UN established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The goals were broken down into 18 concrete targets and 48 indicators to track progresses in implementation. For the past 14 years thereafter, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been striving to achieve the goals. So far, some have achieved some of the goals, and the results toward the rest of the goals are also by and large positive, though off-target. This book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the MDGs in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases. The book also presents lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda.

Author: Sefa Awaworyi Churchill
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811515565
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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This book presents a collection of chapters that examine various dimensions of development. Between 2000 and 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) remained the overarching development framework that governed the international development community. After a decade and half of commitment to the MDGs, the framework is widely considered a success, although progress reported across countries has been uneven. The new overarching international development framework may not be successful or present the best opportunities for the desired global change without a better understanding of factors that contributed the most or the least to the attainment of the MDGs. The chapters presented in this book provide discussions and insights into understanding these factors better. They represent a collection of scholarship that address some of the important questions in international development. They adopt a wide range of research methods to provide insight into what works, and what does not, in promoting the stipulated development goals.

Author: Manmohan Agarwal
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447335724
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions to provide an in-depth exploration of the MDG project and its impact. Contributors use region-specific case studies to explore the effectiveness of the MDGs in addressing the root causes of poverty, including resource geographies, early childhood development and education, women’s rights and disability rights as well as the impact of the global financial crisis and Arab Spring on MDG attainment. Providing a critical assessment that seeks to inform future policy decisions, the book will be valuable to those working in the development community as well as to academics and students of international development, international relations and development economics.

Author: Paul Nelson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487512627
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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From 2000 to 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized external aid to finance life-changing services in the global South. However, in doing so, the organization failed to meet the challenges often associated with human rights initiatives, which are to make underprivileged communities independently prosperous, equitable, and sustainable. In Global Development and Human Rights, Paul Nelson assesses the current thirty-year effort to make transformative changes in the global South by exploring how this disconnect from human rights weakened the MDGs reputation as a successful aid organization. To overcome the failings of the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formed in 2016 with the intention of managing the issues fundamentally ignored by the MDGs. Drawing on twenty-five years of research on development goals, human rights, and the organizations that promote them, Nelson reasons that transformative change arises out of national and local movements, and shows how human rights can offer leverage and political support that help drive transformative national initiatives.

Author: Kobena T. Hanson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351855018
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa’s policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media landscape, to understand and better respond or negotiate the evolving development environment of the 21st century. In this collection of nuanced essays, the contributors interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development. They address issues of governance, agriculture, south-south cooperation in a context of foreign aid, natural resource governance and sustainable development, export diversification and economic growth as well as emerging topics such as the internet of things or the sharing economy, climate change, conflict and non-traditional security. The varied, yet interlinked foci present a holistic overview of Africa’s development aspirations, and ability to transform the SDGs’ universal aspirations into local realities. This book will be of use to academics and students in Development Studies, Contemporary African Studies, Political Science, Policy Studies and Geography, and should also appeal to policy makers and development practitioners.