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Water and sanitation for all: the need to go beyond numbers and beyond the MDGs

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation is clearly a priority in many UN agencies, as reflected in the number of agencies and annual reports on the topic. However, to what extent should these assessments and indicators serve as a basis for donor policies and priorities? While not wanting to critique these efforts and indicators, IDS fellows - Jeremy Allouch and Lyla Mehta argue how enhancing water and sanitation is severely restricted by the definition given by the Millennium Development Goals and its impact on indicators. Official indicators leave out a huge range of local initiatives and alternative ways of improving water and sanitation that fall outside the MDGs.

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Bangladesh: country environmental analysis: 2012; Bangladesh’s steady economic growth has created many environmental challenges, particularly in urban and industrialized areas. The Country Environmental Analysis for Bangladesh underpins complex linka...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Brazil: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative’s (NICFI) support to the formulation and implementation of national REDD strategies and ot...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to a Global REDD+ Regime 2007-2010: R. Tipper / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report is an output of the first iteration of a process of real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). This strand of evaluation addresses NICFI’s contri...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010 Country Report: Democratic Republic of Congo: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report is part of a series of real-time evaluations to assess the results of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) against its specific objectives and the general objective...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010, Country Report: Guyana: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report is one of five national-level studies conducted as part of the Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative. It aims to document the baseline on Reducing Em...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Indonesia: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the support provided by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) to the formulation and implementation of national REDD1...
Peatlands – guidance for climate change mitigation by conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable use: H. Joosten / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2012; This report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is aimed as a handbook for policy makers, technical audiences and others interested in peatlands. The publication infor...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Tanzania: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; The purpose of this country level evaluation is to assess Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)´s support to national REDD strategy development and other REDD readiness efforts ...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Executive Summaries from Country Reports: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; The primary objective of the Norwegian Government’s climate policy is to help establish a global, binding, long-term post-2012 regime that will ensure cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions sufficien...
Tree cover and biomass increase in a southern African savanna despite growing elephant population: J. M. Kalwij / 2010; The growing elephant populations in southern Africa raise concerns of a detrimental loss of trees, resulting in overall reduction of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Elephant populations can be...