International Human Development

May 16, 2013

Development experts discuss what should come next; Beyond the UN's 2015 MDGs

It’s been nearly 13 years since world leaders gathered in New York and committed their nations to reach human development targets by the date of 2015.

With only two years left on the United Nation’s time-bound Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the question remains: what should (and what will) replace those eight targets that have been mobilizing international and nation poverty alleviation and human development efforts?

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Canada and the post-2015 development goals

Embassy

"In the deliberations at the UN over the next year or so, Canada’s niche may be the provision of advice on measurement," says CIGI Senior Fellow Barry Carin, in an op-ed on the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals.

Squaring the Circle: The Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Barry Carin, Mukesh Kapila, and Diana Alarcón

The United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of eight targets, established by the UN in 2000, to mobilize national and collective efforts on critical development issues by 2015. Post-2015 Goals will determine priorities, motivate action and influence spending for development. Extensive consultations underway worldwide have elicited dozens of suggestions. This panel discussed how to make sense of the wide-ranging debates.

Canadian Aid to Africa | Canada Among Nations 2013: Canada-Africa Relations

Friday, May 10, 2013
Stephen Brown

In this video, Stephen Brown discusses the topic of his chapter in Canada Among Nations 2013. He comments that although Africa is still very much part of the Canadian aid landscape, there have been rhetorical shifts and a morphing of Canada's approach.

Monday, May 6, 2013

What should replace the UN’s 2015 Millennium Development Goals? Panel to discuss at CIGI public lecture

Media Advisory

A panel of global development experts will deliver a Signature Lecture at (CIGI on the future of international development and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Experts to deliver exclusive address in Ottawa on successor to UN’s 2015 Millennium Development Goals

Media Advisory

A panel of experts will bring their international development expertise to an exclusive address this week in Canada’s capital, where they will focus on the future of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals beyond 2015.

Civil Society Organizations | Canada Among Nations 2013: Canada-Africa Relations

Friday, May 3, 2013
Betty Plewes

In this video, Betty Plewes touches on the importance of Canadian civil society organizations in Africa, which is the focus of her Canada Among Nations 2013 chapter, co-authored with Brian Tomlinson.

FGEPG Workshop: How to spend the money?

Jul 08
Researchers from CIGI’s Financing Global Environmental Public Goods project and invited experts will identify worthy environmental global public goods projects and the associated self- interested beneficiaries to mobilize lobbies and proponents.

FGEPG Workshop: How to raise the money?

May 15
Researchers from CIGI’s Financing Global Environmental Public Goods project and invited experts will review development/climate financing issues and innovative financing mechanisms, to assess of ideas for financing global public goods.
Friday, May 3, 2013

Designing the Post-2015 Development Goals

The United Nations is now formulating post-2015 goals to succeed the current Millennium Development Goals. What should government authorities call for during the process of establishing these new goals to ensure they reflect national priorities, can be measured and are achievable, not purely aspirational?