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IDS Bulletin: Taking the MDGs Beyond 2015: Hasten Slowly

Abstract: The authors advise to hasten slowly in defining the successor framework to the MDGs. The review of progress in 2010 should not be intermingled with the intergovernmental discussions about the post-2015 framework. The latter should not start until a UN panel of Eminent Persons has prepared a set of thoughtful options and suggestions. The […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

Child poverty in the EU: The breadth of poverty and cumulative deprivation

Published by The Child Poverty Insights – Social and Economic Policy UNICEF Policy and Practice, this report on multidimensional child poverty in the European Union was written by Keetie Roelen at the Institute of Development Studies, UK and Geranda Notten at the University of Ottawa, Canada. The report is an attempt to add to the […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

Trayectoria de niños/as, adolescentes y jóvenes en la red de tráfico de drogas en Río de Janeiro, 2004-2006

El objetivo central de la investigación fue realizar un análisis ampliado sobre las prácticas características de los actores involucrados en la red social del tráfico de drogas en Río de Janeiro y sobre como esta red se viene desarrollando en los últimos años, de modo de ofrecer subsidios para la elaboración de metodologías que auxilien […]

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ECLAC Report: Time for Equality: Closing Gaps, Opening Trails

“The analysis presented in this document wholly adheres to the idea that social equality and the kind of economic dynamism that transform production patterns are not at odds with each other and that the challenge is to find synergies between the two.The proposal made here is headed in this direction and leads to the next […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

NGO Spotlight: Mentoring Latinas

A program developed in the fall of 2003 at the Fordham Graduate School of Social Service addresses the increasing school dropout rates among adolescent Latinas. Mentoring Latinas program is sponsored by The Institute for Women and Girls at The Fordham Graduate School of Social Service. Mentoring Latinas, a program developed in the fall of 2003 […]

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Voice & participation

PNOCK OUT PNEUMONIA DODGEBALL TOURNAMENT

Can Dodgeball save lives? We think so. This winter, on college campuses across the country, teams will compete, spin throws will fly, glory will be grabbed, and one team in each region will be crowned the Champions of the first-ever Pnock Out Pneumonia Tournament! Yet every single team will contribute to an all-too-important cause, […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

UNAIDS: 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update

This report summarizes the latest data on the epidemiology of HIV. The epidemiological estimates reflect continued improvement in national HIV surveillance systems and estimation methodology. In 2007–2008, national household surveys with anonymous HIV testing components were conducted in 11 countries, including nine in sub-Saharan Africa. Improvements in HIV surveillance and information systems not only provide […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

UNAIDS and HIV Education: Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

The education sector plays a critical role in national responses to the HIV epidemic. However, this contribution is often poorly appreciated and understood due to limited, difficult-to-measure data and the absence of agreement on core indicators for the sector. To assist ministries of education and their partners in measuring progress and outcomes of related efforts, […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

Improving the Child Welfare Workforce

Children’s Rights, in partnership with the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) conducted a study of efforts to improve the child welfare workforce in the context of class action litigation in 12 states and localities across the nation. The report, Improving the Child Welfare Workforce: Lessons Learned from Class Action Litigation, issued in February 2007, documents the progress […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Child Poverty

Can the International Framework of Children’s Rights Be Used to Improve Child Survival Rates?

by Simon Pemberton, David Gordon, Shailen Nandy, Christina Pantazis, and Peter Townsend Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040307 This paper explains how the international framework of human rights can be better used to help reduce child poverty and improve child survival rates. It explores the idea that around the world, three of every four children seen by […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Child Poverty

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case studies on learning for action

Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to influence the processes and institutions which shape their lives. The under-representation of women’s voices in decision-making and agenda-setting at all levels means that their interests […]

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Urban inequalities

Global Climate Change and Child Health: A Review of Pathways, Impacts and Measures to Improve the Evidence Base

This paper reviews evidence of the impacts of global climate change on child health. It uses scientific and policy research to show the substantial evidence of disproportionate vulnerability of children in response to climate change. It argues that the diseases likely to be potentiated by climate change are primary causes of child morbidity and mortality, including vector-borne diseases, […]

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