We are entering this new phase of development with vital experience. We learnt from the Millennium Development Goals that gender equality is a pre-requisite for success in achieving international goals. It’s not easy. Analysis from 168 countries on progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action – our global blueprint for achievement of gender equality […]
The year 2015 could go down in the history of human development as a major turning point in the effort to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. Reducing the risk of disasters is essential if the very development gains needed to overcome poverty are not undermined repeatedly, in a vicious cycle of unsustainability. The Third International […]
Until gender is mainstreamed in public finance, progress on equality will be stymied, as it has been for the past two decades. The recent 20 year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on the rights and empowerment of women shows that the lives of many are little better. True, more girls are […]
One of the highlights of the UN Climate Summit last September was the New York Declaration on Forests, which, if implemented, could reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by 4.5-8.8 billion tons annually, equivalent to removing a billion cars from the world’s roads. The most commonly repeated commitments of the Declaration include the Bonn Challenge target to restore […]
The achievements of the Millennium Development Goals have been enormous. They have contributed to many people being lifted out of poverty. More than that, they have raised the profile of development of the poorest on the face of the earth in a way that would have seemed impossible in the 1990s. Yet even more remains […]
Here at Development Initiatives (DI), we believe that information is power and that evidence-based decisions are critical to ensure resources are targeted where they are needed. That’s why we focus on understanding, unpacking and sharing with decision-makers data and information on investments to end poverty. These three graphs highlight the data that we at DI […]
Poverty, conflict, refugees, disease and environmental threats, economic fragility, climate change. The world faces significant challenges and we lack the ability to address them properly. To help us do so, UN member States will hopefully agree on an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals in September in New York. To succeed, the world needs more […]
Over half of the world’s population today lives in urban areas. By 2050, this figure is expected to increase to two-thirds. Asia and Africa, still largely rural, are urbanizing faster than other regions and will contribute a significant share of the additional 2.5 billion people that will live in urban areas by 2050. More than […]
In September 2015, the global development community under the leadership of the United Nations will adopt the post-2015 Development Agenda and announce the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the proposed SDGs pick up the unfinished achievements in pursuing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they go further by integrating economic, social and environmental aspects and recognizing […]
A new post-2015 international development agenda is to be decided on in September this year. The ambitious list of 17 development goals includes a call for a revitalization of the global partnership for sustainable development. The Conference on Financing for Development to be held in Addis Ababa later this month will be the first test […]
