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The launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) marks the introduction of sustainability as an overarching concept for international development by integrating economic, social and environmental concerns at the international policy level. Y...

Communicating the SDGs is now key, not only for their survival during the negotiations in the General Assembly next year, but also for their effective implementation.

In the past few years, Africa’s economic self-confidence on the global stage has grown. A number of African countries are experiencing remarkable levels of economic growth and – due to newly established partnerships with emerging economies like Ch...

Since their adoption in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most successful global anti-poverty push in history. They have helped in achieving tremendous progress, including halving extreme poverty, improving the lives of 2...

Midwives play a vital role in development, especially with regard to the Millennium Development Goals.

The post-MDG agenda should be based on an alternative theory of development, leading to a simple framework of only three complementary goals: reducing global inequalities, abandoning growth, and enhancing trust.

In order to effectively monitor progress on the post-2015 agenda, a focused data development strategy is needed. The strategy should focus on developing new official statistics and indicators for income, employment and inequalities, public and pri...

Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services is essential to meet the basic needs of the poor. But how to integrate them in the post-2015 development agenda?

Despite the aspirations, the development of a set of Sustainable Development Goals remains a challenging trial.

Inequality indicators play an important role in the process of choosing the post-2015 goals. Related to this issue is the question of what level of inequality is acceptable – a certain amount of inequality can stimulate economic growth, but too mu...

Inequality is the result of political choices. It is now a growing worldwide problem that causes social problems, financial instability and hinders economic growth. These were some of the key messages from The Broker’s panel at the recent Developm...

Progress in global poverty reduction has not only led to more ambitious goals, but also to new demands for better data.

The new policy framework should acknowledge that challenges for global sustainable development and the environment are interlinked.

To ensure progress on access to sanitation, it is important to get the measurements and targets right.

Partnerships between the private sector and like-minded organizations are key to securing genuine and lasting change in global development.

Although the MDGs have certainly facilitated progress in Africa's development, sustaining this progress comes with national, regional and global challenges.

If we want the new global development agenda to be manageable, it is perhaps better to design a small set of end goals similar to the original MDGs, instead of a new wish list.

If there is one thing that must be done, then that is to cancel the public debts of developing countries.

In the last week of September, world leaders gathered in New York for the general debate marking the opening of the 68th UN General Assembly (GA). This was an important moment for the post-2015 process, as several events were organized on the glob...

In spite of the ongoing euro crisis, which does not leave much space for an ambitious global agenda, the EU remains a major global development actor.

Without the involvement of the poor and marginalized in the successor framework to the MDGs, it is unlikely that interventions will respond to their problems.

EU Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs outlines his perspective on the post-2015 agenda.

Although the MDGs are arguably the most politically important pact ever made for international development, they harbor several lessons for their successor framework.

Global goals need global policies. Governments have more to win than lose if they join forces and agree upon a single post-2015 agenda.

A new global partnership can provide the impetus for tackling the development challenges that Africa is facing. It must therefore be mutually beneficial, promote the autonomy of its states and address its developmental priorities.

The High-level Panel (HLP) report has failed to transform the post-2015 debate, because it has missed the opportunity to correct the misinterpretations, misconceptions and misappropriations of the MDGs.

A new global partnership can provide the impetus for tackling the development challenges that Africa is facing. It must therefore be mutually beneficial, promote the autonomy of its states and address its developmental priorities.

The High-Level Panel's targets on ensuring good governance and effective institutions need to be further specified.

If we want sustainable management of our natural resources to be part of the post-2015 world, an understanding of the water-energy-food nexus is required.

By mainly focusing on the content, the post-2015 debate places little emphasis on the political challenges lying ahead.

The complex relationship between insecurity issues and development can be clarified by including 'development disruptor' goals in the post-2015 framework.

A new system is needed for global governance, in which there is harmony and balance between shared values.

Only through focusing on equity can poverty reduction and a sustainable environment be achieved in the post-2015 development framework.

Involving civil society organizations in the post-2015 drafting process is important, as implementation of the new agenda depends on their commitment.

A new report by ODI investigates the practical challenges facing the proposed High Level Panel goals on water, energy and transport.

To achieve inclusive development the European Union (EU) needs to reframe its economic policy and reconsider politically sensitive issues.

The HLP report does not address the underlying power dynamics that might undermine the effectiveness and outcomes of the proposed new global partnership.

A report of ODI's event on the High Level Panel report on the post-2015 development agenda.

The HLP report does not seem far-reaching enough to put its idealistic image-sketching into practice  

Implementing systemic change requires consciousness development.

In its post-2015 dossier, The Broker guides you through the many discussions about development after the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015. The aim of the post-2015 dossier is to provide an overview of the debate, t...

A large number of reports and papers have been published as part of the discussions on the post-2015 development framework. In this table we present an overview of the most significant publications, with links to the full texts. They were written...

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The deadline for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is approaching. A number of actors from the UN, regional organizations, academia, the private sector and civil society are involved in drawing up a post-2015 framework, which...

The discussions about a new global development agenda to supersede the MDGs will reach a climax in the coming months. The Broker invites you to join in the conversation.

As the 1000-day count-down to the end of the Millennium age begins, it is expedient to unearth the hurdles encountered during the 15-year development journey. Though remarkable progress is made on the MDGs, regional imbalances exist.

China’s influence in Africa, as well as the feasibility to share its experience in development in this continent, is complicated.

For a national policy maker it is possible to think about raising the income levels of the bottom 10% or 20% toward the middle of the distribution. The poorest can be brought nearer the poverty line through measures like cash transfers.

The post-2015 discussion on what should succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is picking up steam, with barely a day going by without some new paper, consultation or high level meeting. So I, along with Stephen Hale and Matthew Lockwood,...

The UN’s two-day event on water issued a call for a Post-2015 development framework that is less fragmented than the process of formulating the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and is integrated with the sustainable development agenda. So far,...

In two years’ time, the MDGs will come to an end. They will be replaced by a new post-2015 development agenda, which will set new global development targets. The Broker online debate 'Prioritising water after 2015’ has made a strong plea to r...

Eight years ago I wrote a little booklet, analysing the speeches of the Dutch Queen:‘Creation itself is at stake’; Queen Beatrix’ views on the world, following a longer study on the involvement of her late husband, Prince Claus, with Africa and de...

Sustainable development goals should pay more attention to sanitation, gender and rural areas.

The international post-2015 development agenda is in need of a comprehensive water development framework based on widely shared ethical principles.

There is chance for us to overcome the challenge of water security if we really live our lives on the basis of respect for diversity, all people and for the Earth.

The EU’s renewable energy policy, that brace food-based biofuels, is at the expense of food security, poverty eradication and the climate.

Increasing awareness and knowledge about water use is essential and should be a key part of the post-2015 agenda.

The poverty reduction goal already embodies inequality. Even if we agree that it under-values things, it is far from obvious that adding an overall inequality measure is the best corrective. We need to think clearly about what is missing and how b...

Research showed that food security intervention in Ethiopia succeeds in improving food security and reducing poverty in rural areas. Preconditions for success include households' asset ownership and improving alternative sources of income.

Water is a public good, not a commodity. The ultimate goal after 2015 for water and sanitation is making it accessible to all citizens. 

A combination of utility performance indicators to measure the ‘S’factor as the new water SDG is crucial for the sustainable development agenda to have the desired effect.

Tackling inequality in Uganda entails a comprehensive development framework that puts people’s participation in the economic growth process at the centre. People must be viewed as agents of economic growth and transformation and not passive recipi...

The post-2015 agenda on water calls for more cohesion and less pragmatism.

Interview with Ted Schrecker: 'There is widespread recognition that the dynamics of the global economy work in the direction of increased inequality. And there is very little reason to expect that to change over the short term.'

With only two years to go, the debates on the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are intensifying. Two candidates are running up to the end of the MDG term in 2015: the Post-2015 development agenda (derived from the MDGs) and the...

Dr. Adeel warns against a fragmented approach in formulating the post-2015 development agenda. We need to generate awareness of the interconnection between water, food and energy security, and of the relationship between water and economic perform...

The MDGs tend to disregard processes of change and the transformative power of that change. However, it is precisely that transformative power that is at the core of development issues, the primary goal of most development cooperation and the diff...

The specification of a new international income inequality goal will certainly be difficult. However, if rich-country fears of “the rise of the rest” can be replaced with a common commitment to a new economic and ecological convergence, global equ...

There are two critical issues in this inequality debate: there is no global benchmark for inequality and no global goals in absolute terms; and the instruments for tackling inequality lie outside traditional aid intervention models.

Like all contributors to the debate so far, I am convinced that inequality should be an important theme on anyone’s development agenda. But the label ‘post-2015 development agenda’ has a very specific referent, and opinions differ if inequality sh...

Doing something about the numerous inequalities we face in this world, encompassing so many domains is on everybody’s lips these days. But what is the result? What place will the true addressing of inequalities bring us in the post 2015 era? Actua...

Inequality trends present a paradox. Until we have clarity about the nature of these inequalities and what or who causes them, it is not clear whether inequality could or should become central to a post-2015 agenda.

The MDGs, by emphasizing targets at a global level, have ignored the inequalities that average figures conceal (van der Hoeven, 2010, Vandemoortele, 2011, Melaned, 2012). Attention to inequality should be a basic element of any post-2015 agenda an...

Should inequality become a central issue in the post-2015 agenda? And what would that mean in terms of policy change?

Inequality is firmly back on the policy agenda in many parts of the world. Many believe it should have a prominent position on the post-2015 agenda. I disagree. Please let me explain why.

In November 2011, Action for Global Health participated in the Busan Aid Effectiveness Civil Society Forum and the High Level Forum together with health advocates from the Busan Health Working group convened by the network. Our goal in the run up...

I have some good and some not so good news about aid. First, the good news. The aid landscape has seen three important changes during the last decade that have had a transformative, positive effect onthe very nature of aid.

The wording of the Outcomes Document from the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid is largely agreed, and reflects much of the new thinking on aid: statebuilding and peacebuilding; human security; transparency and results. 

In 2000, all 193 United Nations member states agreed to join efforts and encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world’s poorest countries. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were stated: ‘an ambitious list of...

Sir Richard Jolly discusses why the reduction of inequality is crucial for economic growth and greater prosperity

Peacebuilding has to be centre stage at the high-level debate on aid effectiveness in Busan.

Het AIV-advies over de ‘post-2015’ agenda voor mondiale ontwikkeling zet een andere toon dan eerdere, invloedrijke rapporten van de WRR. Daarmee creëert het een basis voor een interessant debat tussen een aantal verschillende paradigma’s over ontw...

It is tempting, as the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) creeps relentlessly closer, to take stock of our chances of actually meeting them. Most experts paint a mixed picture. The consensus is that while there has been a...

Claudio Schuftan from the People’s Health Movement (PHM) makes it very clear that he is an MDG skeptic. And he strongly persuades his readers to question the ‘deficit-filling approach’ to poverty, malnutrition and health. He takes it even further,...

The Broker was in New York to blog from the United Nation's (UN) Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We invited policy makers, academics and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to discuss the Summit and long-t...

This interest coincides with a search for innovative sources of financing to meet development goals and fund global public goods. So why not tax global public bads to fund public goods? Taxing public bads would yield a double dividend. In the firs...

Anticipation was building up around the UN headquarters yesterday morning. The traffic was, too. With almost the entire east side of the city in lock-down, roaring helicopters above our heads and an NYPD checkpoint on every corner, the arrival of...

So, the MDG summit is over, and all those with an interest in the outcomes will be taking stock and deciding if, on balance, the event has been a success. They’ll be scanning the outcomes document, the transcripts of speeches and news reports dili...

Whatever we think about the US or about the MDGs, a speech by an American president is always worth analyzing. Development, in the end, is about power and power relations. And the US is still the greatest power in the world.On Wednesday, the final...

Ok, I admit it – I have little interest in the Millennium Development Goals, despite working in the development arena since 1978. Do I need medical or psychological help? Is there something seriously wrong with me? Don’t I have a heart? Picture me...

The Millennium Development Goals have provided a forum for discussion on poverty and development at the international level. They have contributed to bringing the devastation of poverty and inequality to the forefront of the international arena. Y...

Talk about the importance of gender equality and women’s empowerment in all the MGDs abounds. It is a highly recommended principle, although very few arrive at the specifics of programming and implementation. Beyond the talk there is frenzy over w...