Now updated to reflect the whole discussion, the Leadership Meeting and co-chairs’ statement, and the prospects for inequality in post-2015 and broader development processes. The global post-2015 consultation on inequality, led by UNICEF and UNWomen, has delivered its report to read more
It is with great pride that Uncounted accepted Blood and Milk’s award of the BAMBA for “Best Institutional Blog that should update more”, and took nearly as much pleasure to see Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power receive the BAMBA read more
Should we worry about data held in private, and if so when? I think we should, sometimes, while recognising that it’s not always clear-cut. We should also recognise that sometimes it is absolutely clear-cut – and we know for read more
Food and hunger are near of the top of the development agenda, with the Olympic ‘hunger summit’ seeing a commitment that next year’s G8 would prioritise the issue too. Nevertheless, data weaknesses remain a severe impediment to effective policy. read more
Today is Universal Children’s Day: the date, 20 November marks the day on which the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in read more
It really matters, for all sorts of things from fair taxation to the prevention of corruption, that people are unable to hide their ownership of major assets or income streams. Could the post-2015 development framework provide an opportunity to read more
Let’s say we all agree that government accountability is important, and that data are important to ensure accountability. Do we then agree that acting accountably requires generating and publishing data? And if we do, why does data remain such read more
Among the governments of those countries with the most severe problems of child nutrition, there is an enormous diversity of approach and commitment. Today, the results are out of the Nutrition Barometer which aims to measure this (and will be 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
UNICEF have just released the new infant and child mortality estimates for 2011. The good news is a steep rise in progress last year, with total deaths of children under five falling from 7.6 million in 2010 to 6.9 million read more