Evaluation of development programmes. UN Millennium Development Goals. The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.
They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. The UN is also working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda. News on Millennium Development Goals Launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last September at the United Nations.
The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2015 is now available Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 now available. MDG Progress Chart 2011. What;s Wrong with the MDGs? MDGs: Planning for failure. Over the coming seven years, if Zambia or Uganda or Bangladesh improves education and ends poverty faster than the most successful and lucky nations in the history of human civilization, we we will label them a failure.
Such is the implication of the UN’s much-lauded Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. Well, sort of. In a Brookings presentation this week (paper here), NYU economist Bill Easterly argued that the UN originally established the MDGs as a set of benchmarks to measure collective and global progress, not the gains by individual countries or regions. It was generally expected that the less poor countries would make more progress by the goal date of 2015, and hence make up for the relatively poorer progress of the least developed nations.
Well, that was the idea. To the chagrin of some,individual countries are being held to individual MDGs in the media, international organizations, and by their own government rhetoric. I would add one further criticism to the MDG paradigm. Aid effectiveness. BetterAid. International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Aid, Trade, Growth and Global Partnership. Definition In order to achieve the MDGs it is agreed that we need to secure "more and better aid".
Aid Effectiveness refers to the second part of the equation. Emerging consensus on aid effectiveness (for example in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) points to the importance of aid that is country-owned, aligned and harmonised, focused on the poorest, predictable and untied, delivered through effective institutions, and that focuses on results not inputs. Donors should also use minimal conditions, strengthen accountability and participation, and ensure their own policies are joined up behind the country's poverty strategy. Why is it important? There are pressures to demonstrate that aid is working as DFID and others seek higher volumes of aid. Facts and figures There are pressures to demonstrate that aid is working as DFID and others seek higher volumes of aid. DFID/UK position International perspectives Criticisms.