Category: Aid Effectiveness
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Linking WASH, Nutrition and Agriculture: Indicators to Measure Progress Across SDGs
Many development actors and United Nations Member States have suggested – where possible – that indicators for the SDGs measure progress towards more than one target, or be “multi-purpose.” On March 27th, the International Coalition on Advocating for Nutrition (ICAN) hosted a discussion at the UN titled Indicators with Impact: how to measure nutrition in…
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Community-led Development: Key to Achieving the SDGs
On April 16, 2015, The Hunger Project organized a panel discussion as part of the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings. In this critical year for finalizing the Sustainable Development Goals, five organizations came together to present broad perspectives and specific methods for empowering communities to take charge of their own development. In part 1 – John…
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Finance for Development – Breaking Out of Patriarchy!
The UN has circulated for discussion an “elements” document in preparation for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development summit taking place 13-16 July 2015 in Addis. First of all, it is remarkable to see a financial document that takes gender issues as seriously as this one. Back in 2002, the Monterey Consensus on Financing for…
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Wish List for 2015
Nancy Birdsall, head of the Center for Global Development, has invited readers to contribute to her 2015 policy wish list (click here for her piece). Here are my suggestions: 1) For the SDGs to sail through at least as bold as they currently are – and even bolder on nutrition. 2) For COP21 to adopt…