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From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: shifts in purpose, concept, and politics of global goal setting for development

04/03/2016

10 pages long

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From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: shifts in purpose, concept, and politics of global goal setting for development

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) differ from the MDGs in purpose, concept, and politics. This article focuses on the gender agenda in the SDGs as a reflection on the shifts from the MDGs to the SDGs. It argues that the SDGs address several of the key shortcomings of the MDGs and incorporate a broader and […]

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More or Less Equal? Geography resources for ages 11-16

11/01/2016

25 documents

Languages: English, Welsh

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Bring your geography lessons to life by exploring how inequality and poverty affect the lives of young people in different parts of the world, including the UK. Created in partnership with Young Lives and with the support of subject associations, More or Less Equal? has separate sessions in Geography, Maths and English which can be […]

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More or Less Equal? English/Welsh resources for ages 11-16

11/01/2016

25 documents

Languages: English

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Bring your English and Welsh lessons to life by exploring how inequality and poverty affect the lives of young people in different parts of the world, including the UK. Created in partnership with Young Lives and with the support of subject associations, More or Less Equal? has separate sessions in Geography, Maths and English which […]

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More or Less Equal? Maths resources for ages 11-16

11/01/2016

27 documents

Languages: English

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Bring your maths lessons to life by exploring how inequality and poverty affect the lives of young people in different parts of the world, including the UK. Created in partnership with Young Lives and with the support of subject associations, More or Less Equal? has separate sessions in Geography, Maths and English which can be […]

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Research report

Global Citizenship and Youth Participation in Europe

10/01/2016

1 documents

87 pages long

Languages: English

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Global Citizenship has been recognized as an important component of education by UNESCO through the Sustainable Development Goals launched in 2015 and the recent Global Education Congress in Croatia. While there has been considerable activity across Europe in encouraging youth engagement in democratic institutions, this report suggests that insufficient attention has been given to the […]

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Media briefing

Inequality and the End of Extreme Poverty

21/09/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Fifteen years after the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and a decade after G7 leaders gathered in Gleneagles to promise to ‘make poverty history’, the end of extreme poverty is within reach. Later this week at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, world leaders will agree the […]

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Media briefing

Finance for Development: What’s at stake?

10/07/2015

3 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Government leaders, ministers and representatives gather in Addis Ababa in July 2015 for the third UN Financing for Development Conference. The meeting will set out how the global community will raise the money needed to finance the Sustainable Development Goals – a set of universal global goals for eradicating poverty and protecting the planet which […]

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Research report

Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from government spending on the MDGs

11/06/2015

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

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Spending by governments is falling short of what is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by one-third – and beyond 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require at least $1.5 trillion extra each year. Based on lessons from tracking country budgets, this report looks at how the SDGs should be financed and […]

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Discussion paper

Delivering Sustainable Development: A principled approach to public-private finance

10/04/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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The sustainable development goals (SDGs) will require significant financing. Governments across the world are increasingly looking at ways of working with the private sector in order to meet financing needs. They will need to find ways of maximizing the contribution of these actors. This will depend on ensuring that activities undertaken conform to high standards […]

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Getting Critical about the post-2015 Global Goals: A resource for 11-14 year olds

28/02/2013

3 documents

Languages: English

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Since their creation in September 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have encouraged the countries committed to them to work towards meeting the needs of the world’s poorest people. The target date for the MDGs is 2015 so beyond that, a new set of goals will be needed. Originally created to assist with the Shape […]

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