Beyond MDGs and beyond aid
The post-2015 development framework should be about aid instruments as much as about goals, says a new independent report supported by the European Commission and several European Union member states.
Senior MEP Gay Mitchell states "As the millennium development goals (MDGs) come to an end in 2015, it is time to reassess how we have failed and how we have succeeded in empowering the developing world out of poverty"
“It is a challenging but achievable dream to end world hunger.”
The report, which was prepared by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM). The European Commission (EC) identified a number of key failings with the MDGs which its authors say must be fixed in any future global aid programme.
The MDGs mask inequalities and omit some issues of key importance to development, including the need for productive employment, issues related to climate change, governance, migration, conflict, security and disability, according to the report.
It also criticised rich countries for not fully honouring MDG commitments and said that there was often a mismatch between national policy needs and MDG targets which meant that some aid was essentially squandered.
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