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New MDGs, Development Concepts, Principles and Challenges in a Post-2015 World

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  • Elaine Unterhalter
  • Andrew Dorward

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As we approach 2015 the question of what, if anything, should replace the MDGs becomes increasingly important. This paper presents findings from studies on the implementation of the poverty, education and gender MDGs in Kenya and South Africa. These show how top-down processes associated with meeting the MDG targets led by government or large NGOs are disassociated from bottom-up engagements with gender, education and poverty by households or communities. A missing middle linked with professional action by teachers or civil servants and enhanced information flow means that groups from the top and the bottom talk past each other. We therefore argue that these experiences with implementing the MDGs, coupled with a variety of global changes since 2000s, mean that a major concern in developing a set of post 2015 goals is the need to address the disarticulation between ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ approaches in international development. We link this challenge with five principles put forward for post 2015 goals and indicators: holism, equity, sustainability, ownership and global obligation. The application of this approach to work on goals and targets is illustrated in relation to nutrition/food security and secondary education. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

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  • Elaine Unterhalter & Andrew Dorward, 2013. "New MDGs, Development Concepts, Principles and Challenges in a Post-2015 World," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 113(2), pages 609-625, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:113:y:2013:i:2:p:609-625
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0292-0
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