Assessing MDGs

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Quantifying 'water poverty': ( F. Molle;P. Mollinga / IWA Publishing , 2003); In the wake of a growing concern about both the unchecked rise of poverty and the local and global consequences of water scarcity, the relationships between water and poverty are the object of a spraw...
Azerbaijan's MDG record: ( United Nations Development Group , 2005); Azerbaijan launched the ”State Programme on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development” (SPPRED) in 2003 in order to reduce poverty and improve living standards of its citizens. The SPPRED...
UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2008-11: ( United Nations Development Programme , 2007); This document presents the UNDP’s Gender Equality Strategy (GES) 2008-11. It is grounded in the premise that the development objective of equality between men and women, or gender equality, is a...
A UNDP approach to capacity development and capacity assessment: ( K. Wignaraja;J. Colville;D. Balassanian / Human Development Report Office, UNDP , 2008); This capacity assessment methodology user’s guide provides United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other development practitioners with an overview of UNDP’s approach to Capacit...
Distributional impact of decentralisation reforms: ( K. Kaiser / World Bank , 2006); This document outlines three levels of analysis that offer a potentially tractable means of mapping out Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) for decentralisation....
How can decision makers account for their commitment to poverty reduction?: ( S. Gloppen; L. Rakner; A. Tostensen / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2003); Since adopting the Millennium Development Goals, almost all bilateral and multilateral donor agencies have adopted poverty reduction as their overriding objective. Yet progress on the ground appears s...
Will the 1990's be the 'decade of broken promises'?: ( J. Vandemoortele / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2002); This paper argues that if MDGs appear feasible at the global level, it does not necessarily imply that they will be feasible in all nations or at all locations. Averages are commonly used at each leve...