As you might expect, we’ve had a lot of response to the working proposal for a post-2015 development framework that we published last week. Three main points emerged, and I’ll summarise them in separate posts.. The great majority read more
You’d be pretty foolish to propose a complete post-2015 development framework right now, wouldn’t you? What with the High Level Panel still to have their second substantive meeting (in Monrovia, following London last November and with the Indonesian fixture read more
As the High Level Panel on post-2015 meets in London, our new report Born Equal shows that the effective income inequality per child is double that of households in general – and perhaps more worryingly, we find this inequality has grown read more
There is now an impressively broad consensus in the technical discussions on post-2015, about the necessary centrality of inequality in the new development framework. And a lot of thinking is underway about how to move from technical consensus to read more
This is a guest post from Will Paxton, head of education, who has been at UNESCO’s launch of the 2012 Global Monitoring Report today, which presents new statistics that are a cause for concern… — There read more
I’ve been under a rock working on our report on inequality and post-2015; but happily, here’s a great guest post from our new head of education Will Paxton, looking at – inequality and post-2015. There’s a theme here… The read more
I probably shouldn’t do this, but it’s too good not to share. Jess Espey of our research team commissioned a study from the Young Lives project – a longitudinal study of children growing up in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru read more
If the post-2015 framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals achieves anything, it must surely mandate effective investment in national-level statistical systems so that – at a bare minimum – no child’s death, wherever it may occur, will go read more
From UNICEF’s child mortality report – file under “not rocket science, just do it” – hashtag #NRSJDI, by the way. (Discussion of the new stats is here – in the glass half full and glass half empty versions.)
Progress on global health is a contentious subject. While some celebrate progress in key health indicators, others warn that gross global inequalities are still responsible for 20 million deaths every year. A group of experts and civil society that read more