Security: the missing bottom of the Millennium Development Goals?
This paper examines the arguments and proposals for including a security-related target in the post-Millennium Development Goal framework.
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Post-2015 education Millennium Development Goals
Nicholas Burnett and Colin FelsmanThis report reviews and contributes to the evidence base concerning progress on the education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education for All Goals (EFA) to 2015 and beyond. -
Post-2015 health Millennium Development Goals
Julian Schweitzer, Marty Makinen, Lara Wilson and Marilyn HeymannThis paper reviews and contributes to the evidence base concerning progress on the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to 2015 and beyond. -
Disaster risk management in post-2015 policy frameworks: forging a more resilient future
This Briefing Paper considers what is needed to strengthen the management of disaster risk over the next two decades and strategies to embed disaster risk management in the international policy frameworks to achieve this. -
Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals: What role for business?
This paper considers how the private sector can usefully be involved in global and national dialogues on a post-2015 development framework. -
Rethinking Rio +20: why economists should take the Earth Summit seriously
Back at the first RioEarth Summitin 1992, the civil society organisations in attendance counted an unusual group among their number. Amid the assorted staffers and activists from environmental and development NGOs, there was a handful of campaigners who had a very different relationship with the Earth: representatives of an astronauts' organisation. Their reason for being there? Having seen the planet from space, they'd learned to view it from a different angle.
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Health and education post-2015
'I don’t detect any doubt among the key post-2015 policy makers at the moment that health and education will be central to a new framework – though they might have to share that centre with a few more issues, like growth and employment, this time around...We probably need to guard against the tyranny of newness and remember that there are lots of things to be said about the existing agendas too.' -
Inequality, a new frontier for post 2015 development policy
'What can we do between now and 2015 to avert the inequality car crash? First, the extremes of inequality in human development outcomes need to be tackled as soon as possible. For moral, economic and political reasons, ending global poverty should be the first priority of a new global development framework after 2015. This can only be done by addressing the inequalities which act as a barrier to progress for too many people.' -
Rio +20: Keeping our eyes on the prize
Rio +20 (or the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development) is feted as a critical opportunity to bring together two divergent paths: international negotiations on the environment and international commitments to sustainable development. But this is not a new agenda. After all, the official title of the original 1992 Rio ‘Earth Summit’ was the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
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What can Rio+20 achieve?
This month's Global development podcast looks ahead to the Rio+20 talks and asks what they may mean for sustainable development.
The discussion looks back 20 years to see where this all began, explores arguments for a "green economy" (a key conference theme) and the role of business in sustainable development, and considers what is at stake for the People's summit.