How Should MDG Implementation Be Measured: Faster Progress or Meeting Targets?
http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCOnePager109.pdf
OP 109: How Should MDG
Implementation Be Measured: Faster
Progress or Meeting Targets?
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Joshua Greenstein, the New
School
A critically important aspect of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) is that they provide concrete, time-bound and
quantitative objectives against which poverty reduction can be measured.
Governments can be held accountable by their people. The international community
can hold accountable, and be held accountable by, national governments. If this
newfound accountability is to be worthwhile, however, the method of determining
progress or lack thereof must be the correct one. We argue that the correct
measure is whether faster progress is being made, not whether the targets are to
be met. The MDGs are not hard planning targets; they are aspirational norms and
they offer benchmarks in an evaluative framework.
http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCOnePager109.pdf
Posted at 11:39AM May 11, 2010
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