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We need holistic new MDGs after 2015
Big questions remain about what a successor agreement to the UN's Millennium Development Goals should look like, but any new approach must depart from policy silo's and take a more holistic and sustainable approach, argues Nicholas Rutherford
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Why the Post-2015 MDGs need an education target
Universal education for all primary school-age children is one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for 2015, which will almost certainly not be met. The international community must learn from this failure, writes Nigel Chapman.
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EU admits double-counting climate finance and development aid
SPECIAL REPORT / EU officials have admitted for the first time that member state donations to the developing world can simultaneously count towards meeting climate change obligations and development commitments, such as providing 0.7% of gross income for overseas aid.
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EU sets out stall for New York MDG summit
SPECIAL REPORT/ Brussels has set itself a target for next week’s New York Millennium Development Goals (MDG) review meeting of agreeing a roadmap to a post-2015 deal uniting the UN targets with its Rio+20 global sustainability agenda.
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Infographic: EU states’ aid pledge nears breaking point
In 2005, EU ministers pledged to spend 0.7% of member states' Gross National Incomes on overseas development aid by 2015, keeping in line with the UN Millennium Development Goals. But new analysis of the latest figures shows that when genuinely new aid is counted, EU states are barely meeting half of that commitment. Fifteen months remain to change the picture.
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Dwindling EU aid spurs UN ‘global governance’ calls
SPECIAL REPORT/ The imminent breach of a promise by EU states to spend 0.7% of their gross income on overseas aid by 2015 is sparking calls for the UN to be given ‘coercive’ powers to force rich nations to honour future aid pledges.
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MDG designer fears UN goals will ‘degenerate into wish list’
SPECIAL REPORT / An architect of the UN’s Millennium development Goals (MDGs) says he fears that a lack of strong leadership at the UN could lead to its poverty eradication goals being replaced by an over-politicised and unachievable “wish list” after 2015.
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UN ‘failing’ women with poverty eradication targets
SPECIAL REPORT/ The United Nations is on track to meet many of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) it set itself over ten years ago, but the milestones affecting women are all but certain to fall beyond its reach.
