Post2015.org – what comes after the MDGs?
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The growing access to digital technologies could fundamentally transform developing economies
Written by Chris de Bode on SciDevNet The move from hunter-gathering to the age of farming and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution 12,000 years later mark seminal transitions in human history, lifestyle and wellbeing. Now in the digital age, our civilisation may be in the midst of another equally great transformation. The age of … Continue reading
Post-2015 resources round-up
Post2015.org is collating key recent post-2015 resources and news in a round-up post. Below, read today’s selection: Call to Action: Nutrition in the Post-2015 Development Agenda – This brief by the Road to Rio Global Nutrition Advocacy Working Group in consultation with the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network and National Alliances and the NCD Alliance provides recommendations … Continue reading
Post-2015 resources round-up
Post2015.org is collating key recent post-2015 resources and news in a round-up post. Below, read today’s selection: Illicit Financial Flows: What’s the smartest Post-2015 target? The Copenhagen Consensus Center has just published its second set of papers about Illicit Financial Flows. When we think about development priorities, we think of disease, nutrition and education, but actually IFF is … Continue reading
The Summer of the Summit – Now What for Child, Early and Forced Marriage?
Written by Lena Minchew (IWHC), Lyric Thompson (ICRW) and Erin Kennedy (CARE USA), co-chairs of Girls Not Brides USA, the US partnership to end child marriage on Girls Not Brides blog “2014 may just prove to be the year that changed the course for child, early and forced marriage (CEFM). So far this year we’ve seen significant statements, … Continue reading
Interview with Dr Álvaro Sobrinho, Chairman of the Planet Earth Institute: August 2015
This post by Planet Earth Institute is a Q&A with their founder and Chairman, Alvaro Sobrinho, on his vision of Africa’s scientific independence and the Post -2015 debate. Álvaro Sobrinho, one of Angola’s leading business figures and philanthropists, and Chairman of the Planet Earth Institute, talks about his plans to make Africa a global science … Continue reading
Southern Voice Occasional Paper Series
Post2015.org is collating key recent post-2015 resources and news in a round-up post. Today’s selection covers recent occasional papers produced as part of the Southern Voice on Post-MDG International Development Goals Agenda, an initiative to channel evidence-based policy inputs from the Global South into the discussion on the post-2015 framework and targets: First Approximations on Post-MDG International Development Goals – by … Continue reading
Post-2015 resources round-up
Post2015.org is collating key recent post-2015 resources and news in a round-up post. Below, read today’s selection: ATD Fourth World Reaction to the Outcome Document of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals – This analysis paper shows the reaction of ATD Fourth World to the SDGS- whilst welcoming the goals, it finds that they could better … Continue reading
Post-2015 resources round-up
Post2015.org is collating key recent post-2015 resources and news in a round-up post. Below, read today’s selection: Making it Happen: Oxfam’s Proposal for the Post 2015 Framework – paper putting forward Oxfam’s proposal for what new goals and targets should be included and how they can be designed to bring about lasting change. Advocacy Toolkit: Influencing … Continue reading
Science and technology in Africa’s Post 2015 world – and the crucial role of business
Written by Dr Álvaro Sobrinho, Chairman of the Planet Earth Institute – an international NGO and charity working for the ‘scientific independence of Africa’. Last week it was my pleasure to lead a delegation to the United Nations headquarters in New York, as part of our Planet Earth Institute (PEI) campaign to see science, technology … Continue reading
GDP is macho and keeps women poor
Written by Alice D Kanengoni, Women’s Rights Programme Manager at OSISA on the IRF 2015 blog. “GDP as a measure of development is inaccurate and masks inequalities faced by women. As the world frames a post-2015 agenda, we need to explore alternatives that are more inclusive and recognize women and girls’ contributions to national economies. For decades, … Continue reading
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