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Squaring the Circle: The Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015
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. The panel discussed how to make sense of the wide-ranging debates.
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?
Canada and the post-2015 development goals
"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
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.
Canada isn’t running for a UN Security Council seat, and it won’t be missed
"Successful UN Security Council campaigns typically take years of effort, as support has to be found one country at a time, not unlike campaigning one doorstep at a time in Canadian elections," writes CIGI Distinguished Fellow Paul Heinbecker, commenting on the Canadian government's decision not to seek a UN Security Council seat in 2014.
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?
New global challenges require new goals in post-2015 development agenda, CIGI paper says
The post-2015 development agenda should be reframed around “one-world” goals, according to a new paper issued by CIGI. Researchers propose 10 new comprehensive goals that will advance human development in the developed and developing world, alike.
Financing Global Environmental Public Goods
This project explores the three main tracks to overcoming the barriers to sustainable development: how to raise the money; how to spend the money; and, how to design and govern the executing body.
The Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015: Squaring the Circle
This paper, based on a series of reports and discussions on the post-2015 development agenda that took place over the past two-and-a-half years, reviews the history of the MDGs, describes the current context, lists the premises and starting points and provides a brief summary of the evolution of the project’s view. The paper concludes with some observations on each of the 10 recommended goals.
Former UNICEF policy director makes case for social protection floor
The world’s most vulnerable need a new deal – or rather, a new New Deal – and they need it soon.
That was the message from Dr. Isabel Ortiz, director of the Global Social Justice Program at Joseph Stiglitz's Initiative for Policy Dialogue, in a CIGI Signature Lecture that marked the renowned poverty-reduction expert’s first visit to Canada.