A summary of initial findings from an ongoing review of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which will include a set of league tables. The key message is that progress is possible, with a number of countries making real achievements.
Children in the Middle East and North Africa are feeling the effects of the global financial crisis. A new ODI Background Note urges governments in the region to see the crisis as an opportunity to strengthen social protection systems.
Commissioned by UNICEF, this paper outlines the impact of the ‘Triple F crisis’ (food, fuel, financial) on children and women in the Middle East and North Africa. It finds that the crisis is already undermining children’s rights to nutrition, education and protection from child labour. It calls on governments in the region to strengthen social sector spending and social protection systems.
National frameworks to reduce poverty and adapt to climate change rarely, if ever, interlink.
This paper reports on a project of institutional capacity development for participatory research, undertaken by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in Morocco.