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Guide to Monitoring Target 11: Improving the lives of 100 million slum dwellers
Africa, Civil Society, Framework, Governance and MDG, Other UN AgencyThis guide represents a milestone in the efforts of the United Nations to monitor the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN member states in the year 2000. These goals address essential dimensions of poverty and their effects on people’s lives. They constitute, in themselves, a commitment by the world’s leaders to the world’s poor, addressing the most pressing issues related to...
Claiming the MDGs: An Empowerment Framework
Framework, GAP, Governance and MDG, UNDP ProducedThe existing MDG needs assessment and costing methodology (which aims to create a detailed inventory of the material, financial, human and technical inputs needed for the Goals to be reached by 2015) does not account for the critical exclusionary mechanisms standing in the way of people’s ability to access opportunities. These systemic obstacles are therefore likely to...