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Water scarcity | International Decade for Action 'Water for Life' 2005-2015 - 2 views

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    Water scarcity already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation. Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage (where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers). The way water scarcity issues are addressed impacts upon the successful achievement of most of the Millennium Development Goals.
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The MDGs Report 2014 Addendum: Goal 4, Reduce Child Mortality - 0 views

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    Despite substantial progress, the world is still falling short of the MDG child mortality target.
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http://www.beyond2015.org/sites/default/files/Appendix%201-%20Messaging%20Paper%20Engli... - 0 views

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    Look here for key messages from around the world about the four pillars for development goals Beyond 2015.
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Education For All - the next goal - 2 views

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    Infographic on the inter-disciplinary impact of education.
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UN Thematic Think Pieces on Post-2015 | Post2015.org - what comes after the MDGs? - 2 views

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    Think Pieces. Post 2015... Looking ahead.
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Philanthrocapitalists propose a Social Progress Index | Humanosphere - 0 views

  • “We need a new way to measure social progress that is independent of economic indicators,”
  • Many, if not most, aid experts today agree that this didn’t work out too well since it was a gross measure, meaning it didn’t really measure what happened to individual people, and because, well, economics is not all there is to life – or measuring life.
  • The SPI ranks countries based on three categories – basic human needs; foundations of well-being; opportunity – each of which are broken down further into four categories.
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Tracking future development goals « Post2015.org - what comes after the MDGs? - 1 views

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    Looking for after the MDGs
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Post 2015 | End Poverty 2015 - 3 views

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    The United Nations Millennium Campaign, along with many partners within the United Nations as well as Civil Society Stakeholders are now looking at prospects for the Post-2015 agenda. As we look towards the year 2015, we will make make one final push to achieve the MDGs, seriously review the experience had with development goals since 2000 and strive to help create a more inclusive and holistic set of goals post-2015.
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What are the MDGs? - 0 views

  • At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration and pledged to reach the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
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Viet Nam & the MDGs - 0 views

  • Viet Nam has made very impressive progress towards achieving the MDGs and has been successful in meeting some of them – such as MDG 1 on eradication of extreme hunger and poverty – way ahead of the 2015 deadline.
  • if Viet Nam is to achieve all the MDGs with equity, it is important that progress is sustained, that rising disparities are better targeted, that risks are anticipated and that remaining gaps are addressed
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Oxfam plea on global inequality - 1 views

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    The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest on the planet four times over, Oxfam has said. Ahead of next week's World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the charity urged world leaders to tackle inequality.
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