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129 8 Scaling-up Community Efforts to Reach the MDGs - An Assessment of Experience from the Equator Prize
… 130 relationship between capacity development, scaling-up, and MDG achievement remains murky and largely uninvestigated. Chapter 8 At …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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Chapter 4 SEA EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
… is a driving theme of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit of Sustainable …
Publication, 01 January 1970
A mom and her newborn baby at the Maternal & Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
New international development goals: score or miss?
… north and south, and to all people. In a departure from the MDG approach – which merely tried to reduce the size of the problem – …
Insight, 05 June 2013
Men filling plastic containers with water. Niger.
Clean drinking water is about people, not pipes
… (MDGs). An obvious topic of discussion will be progress towards the MDG targets for water. In 2000, nearly 200 countries agreed to halve, by …
Insight, 15 March 2012
Surveying residents in the settlement of Tank Mohalla, Bangalore, India (Photo: CSTEPIN, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Local democracy as a substitute for data (and rather a good substitute too)
… or projections since no country gathers data each year on all the MDG goals and targets. Oddly enough, the one data source that can …
Insight, 16 January 2015
Members of the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation learn techniques for building houses on land that is affected by climate-related hazards, including waterlogging. Picture: David Dodman.
12 Christmas crackers from IIED
… for international development, when the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework will be revised, extended or replaced. Is inequality a …
Article, 27 December 2013
Cebu, Phillipines
6th World Urban Forum: will the agenda of slum and shack dwellers ever get considered?
… target for improving slum conditions.   The preparations for the post MDG 2015 global development framework should involve the representative …
Insight, 07 September 2012
The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st
… however, sanitation is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets that is seriously off course. The share of the world's …
Insight, 04 March 2015
Closeup of the flame of a small oil lamp.
Energy equity: can the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative make a difference?
… modern energy services – the ‘missing’ Millennium Development Goal (MDG) – is essential for sustainable development and achieving the MDGs …
Insight, 29 March 2012
A community sanitation facility in Jinja, Uganda (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'
Insight, 18 November 2014