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   Urban landscape - Dhaka city port, Bangladesh

   Canoes that operate as taxis across the river dock here at the Dhaka city port, Bangladesh
   License: ODI given rights
   Credit: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
   Source: IRIN
   

   After the post-2015 HLP report: responses from around the world

   Event - Public event - 6 June 2013 14:30 - 16:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

   The High-Level Panel, appointed by the UN Secretary General to advise him on the post-2015 agenda, reports on 30th May. Will the report live up to the hype? Will its recommendations meet the aspirations of the many groups and individuals who have contributed to the debate around post-2015, and will it chart a politically effective way forward for governments? This event provides a global audience with a chance to discuss the report with each other and with two key panel members.

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   Post-2015 wonkwar continued: Claire Melamed on why it’s a good thing and your chance to vote

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 May 2013

   'In any case, that is about the campaign and the public debate, not the goals, and the two shouldn’t be confused. If the outcome is important, being annoyed at the tone and strategy adopted by campaigners has to be a reason to get in there and change that, not to walk away.'

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   Equity, inequality and human development in a post-2015 framework

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 27 April 2013

   Claire Melamed and Emma Samman

   A focus on tackling inequality ought to be central to a human development approach to the post-2015 framework. This paper will argue for an agenda which this focus features explicitly. It calls for an expansive conception of inequality across multiple dimensions of development and on multiple levels—within countries, among people regardless of where they live, and encompassing both present and future generations.

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   Progress for everyone? Measuring inequality and why it matters

   Opinion - Articles and blogs;#17;#Podcasts and audio - 24 April 2013

   'By looking at averages when measuring progress, we are looking at a biased view of what we have been able to achieve. Only by looking at inequitable distributions of our progress, can we really understand whether or not we are achieving progress.'
   
   Inequality doesn’t just hurt the poorest people – it hurts whole societies, leading many to argue that tackling inequality should be at the centre of the next development framework – not on the periphery.
   
   

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   Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 18 April 2013

   Tom Mitchell, Lindsey Jones, Emma Lovell and Eva Comba

   This report examines options for including disaster risk management in the post-2015 development framework.

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   Children Play with Garbage in Cambodia Slum

   Children play with garbage in Phnom Penh’s Stung Meanchey slums, where some 2000 people live on the garbage dump and make their living selling recyclable refuse.
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: United Nations Photo
   Source: Flickr
   

   How should inequality feature in a post-2015 agreement?

   Event - Public event - 18 April 2013 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

   Should our concern be with inequality, per se, or rather the situation of the most deprived? Which inequalities are most pressing? Do we need a goal on inequality, or should it be incorporated as a ‘cross cutting’ issue? Which individuals or groups should we be most concerned about? In the light of the HLP’s forthcoming report, we invite our panellists to reflect upon its recommendations and give their own insights on the questions above.

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   Bustling market in Monrovia

   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: JohnConnell
   Source: Flickr
   

   Business and a post-2015 sustainable development agenda: where next?

   Event - Public event - 17 April 2013 18:00 - 19:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

   As we approach 2015, the target date for the internationally-agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), discussions on what will replace them are gaining momentum. While there have been a number of conversations about the role of the private sector in a new framework, there have been few specific suggestions on how businesses could become involved in a new set of goals. This event, co-organised by Business Fights Poverty, Stakeholder Forum and ODI aims to shift the focus of the conversation towards a more practical discussion of proposals.

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8. Live stream launch of the European Report on Development 2013

   Event - Live Stream - 9 April 2013 09:00 - 11:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

   Live stream of the launch event for The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013. The latest report aims to provide an independent European contribution to the emerging debate on a possible post-2015 consensus on international development.

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   What role for the private sector in the post-2015 round of goals?

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 2 April 2013

   'Once the main aim and design of a new set of goals becomes more settled – whether its priority remains poverty eradication, shifts to sustainable development or combines the two – it will be easier to think what role the private sector can play.'

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    Who are the poor? New regional estimates of the composition of education and health ‘poverty’ by spatial and social inequalities

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 March 2013

    Andy Sumner

    What are the characteristics of poor households and how are they different across regions and time? This paper proposes and operationalises a method for estimating the composition of poverty.

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