Millenium Development Goals

Incidencia y sensibilización de las ONGD españolas para alcanzar los ODM

by Pablo Martínez Osés

Publicado en Documentación Social, nº 136, 2005

Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio presentan luces y sombras según la visión de las ONGD. No obstante, pueden... more Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio presentan luces y sombras según la visión de las ONGD. No obstante, pueden proporcionar una oportunidad histórica para avanzar en los retos
pendientes de la cooperación española. Por otro lado, las ONGD españolas están evolucionando desde hace años hacia el trabajo en redes y mejorando su capacidad de incidencia y sensibilización.
En el año 2005 confluyen estos dos procesos en una movilización internacional sin precedentes con la participación activa de la CONGDE, en representación del conjunto de
ONGD en España. La Campaña «Pobreza Cero» y su referente internacional «Llamada mundial para actuar contra la pobreza», resumen proactivamente cuál es la aportación de las organizaciones y movimientos de la sociedad civil para alcanzar los ODM.

Nuevos discursos, ¿nuevos tiempos?

by Pablo Martínez Osés

Informe nacional sobre España, publicado en el Informe Social Watch 2005 Rugidos y murmullos: Género y pobreza, más promesas que acciones.

España dio un giro importante en política exterior y compromisos con la cooperación internacional en 2004, pero el... more España dio un giro importante en política exterior y compromisos con la cooperación internacional en 2004, pero el reto sigue siendo mejorar la cantidad de la ayuda para alcanzar los niveles propuestos internacionalmente e incorporar una perspectiva multidisciplinaria del desarrollo. No menos
importante es la revisión del condicionamiento de la ayuda a la adquisición de bienes y servicios españoles y la condonación de la deuda externa de los países empobrecidos.

What Can Britain Do to Save Yemen From Itself?

by Alexandra Lewis

Co-authored with Sultan Barakat, David Connolly and Sean Deelly

Buffeted by the politics of the Arab Spring and the realities of state fragility, civil war and the War on Terror,... more Buffeted by the politics of the Arab Spring and the realities of state fragility, civil war and the War on Terror, Yemen — now home to Osama bin Laden’s spiritual heir apparent Anwar al-Awlaki — represents a challenge to international policy makers. 

La cooperación técnica agrícola para la seguridad alimentaria México-Centroamérica

by Horacio Rodríguez Vázquez

Sentence Comprehension: Effectors and Goals, Self and Others. An Overview of Experiments and Implications for Robotics

by Anna Borghi

Exit doors, productive inclusion and extreme poverty eradication in Brazil

by Raquel Tsukada

Co-authored with Ricardo Paes de Barros and Rosane Mendonça

Las perspectivas de meta de los adolescentes en el contexto deportivo

by Isabel Balaguer

Making the Case for an Equity Focus in Education

by Andrew Epstein

Based on the CRC, UNICEF has for decades worked to ensure the rights of all children to an education. However, despite... more Based on the CRC, UNICEF has for decades worked to ensure the rights of all children to an education. However, despite best efforts, political, economic and social processes combine to exclude many children from realising this right. In addition, shocks such as natural disasters, economic downturns and conflicts interrupt the education of many who have been able to start their education. Official enrolment figures in education have shown promising trends globally as well as nationally in many parts of the world. However, there is still a difference between rich and poor countries, and large differences between regions and groups with distinct characteristics within countries. The coincidence of the MDG Summit in September 2010, where progress has been reviewed, and the agenda of the new Executive Director who has encouraged a new focus on equity has led to the section reviewing equity issues in education, and methods through which country programmes can improve their equity focus. This paper is one of several instruments being developed by the education section in order to address this new agenda, and serves as a background for the development of other instruments.

Peak oil and climate change: the urgent need for a transition to a non-carbon emitting society

by Jofre Carnicer

published in Ambio (2010)

The strong environmental effects of greenhouse gas emissions derived from oil use and the negative socio-economic... more The strong environmental effects of greenhouse gas emissions derived from oil use and the negative socio-economic consequences of future oil scarcity make it urgent to shift to alternative affordable energy sources. A recent assessment of the International Energy Agency, an OECD prestigious institution, alerts that oil shortage and increased energy costs can easily be an immediate reality after the current financial crisis if massive and strategic investments in oil industry are not rapidly and massively implemented.

Multiple economic, scientific, technological and political pathways should be implemented to achieve this global energy transition. States should empower their national strategies to improve the efficiency in energy generation, transmission and consumption and thus reduce progressively carbon emissions. States should also facilitate the massive deployment of renewable energies and public transport, promote the progressive electrification of the car industry, and globally shift to sustainable strategies in many other economic sectors. At the international level, governments should rapidly promote multilateral and bilateral cooperative agreements on energy and climate policies. In addition, states might promote the creation of a United Nations international programme to facilitate and coordinate a world-wide ordered and non-traumatic transition to low-carbon and energy-efficient economie. This UN international programme could develop or facilitate multilateral regulatory agreements to avoid the emergence of speculative dynamics and volatility on oil prices that ultimately damage economic stability and increase ongoing global food-security crisis. Finally, I advocate for a much greater scientific effort urgently placed on the interactions between peak oil, climate change and global society change. The scale, urgency and severity of peak oil and climate change mean that no action is too small to matter, too large to contemplate, or too soon to begin. There is not much time left.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: A Measure of Progress

by Raquel Tsukada

Co-authored with D. Hailu

This paper introduces a methodology that measures the effort made by countries in achieving the Millennium Development... more This paper introduces a methodology that measures the effort made by countries in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The methodology compares the rate of progress
on MDG indicators in the period before and after the adoption of the MDGs. We correct for two biases ignored in previous methodologies: non-linearity in the rate of change, and effort appreciation. By correcting for the first, we recognise that the rate of progress in MDG indicators is not linear across time. As for the  second bias, we note that natural constraints hinder countries from achieving the targets as they approach their upper or lower bound limits. These two corrections allow us to identify countries that are making respectable progress on MDG acceleration, despite their likely “failure” in achieving the Goals by 2015. 

Network Analyses to Participatory Evaluation of Capacity Development on Sustainable Sanitation

by David Franquesa

Caterina Amengual, David Franquesa. "Network Analyses to Participatory Evaluation of Capacity Development on Sustainable Sanitation". Stakeholder Perspectives in Evaluating Sustainable Development. EASY-ECO Budapest Conference. October 2009

Is a priority for researchers to develop the sustainability science, through the integration of multiple disciplines... more Is a priority for researchers to develop the sustainability science, through the integration of multiple disciplines in several scales. Socio-ecological systems under the theory of resilience are aiming to the adaptive capacity to change through the premise of “learning by doing”. Evaluation is viewed as a process to steer and control programs and policies. Stakeholder participation is the key to create knowledge and learn together through an iterative process. Developing the capacity on the stakeholders to learn and take better decisions, it can conduct to a social learning process in a path to sustainable development. Integration and interrelation have they expression on the flow of information. The scientific discourse is on the need for better integration on sustainability science, but better tools are need to reflect this necessity on the practical field. We expose a graphical tool for network analyses to evaluate the interactions between huge amounts of information. If worth of information is on the relations, in graph database models many stakeholders and their activities are tracked in a network that is growing at the same time that the learning process. For the evaluation practice this is a potential because this tool allows recognizing patterns, social networks, analyse relations, detecting emergences or gaps in the knowledge creation. We illustrate the utility of this tool in the Millennium Development Goals, deeply jointed to sustainable development. The necessity to improve sanitation through capacity development in sustainability is a real problem that will need a huge effort that can be evaluated using graph database models.

The MDGs and the (New) International Economic Order

by Par Engstrom

University of Denver Human Rights and Human Welfare Online Journal, October 2010

"[…] as the emerging economies continue to grow, they will have to manage increasing expectations that they... more "[…] as the emerging economies continue to grow, they will have to manage increasing expectations that they should play a more active and forceful role in the foreign aid regime and that they should shoulder a greater burden in response to humanitarian emergencies, for example. This has significant implications for the foreign aid regime, as one cannot assume that emerging powers will simply be absorbed into the current global order."