SDG Series #6: Contributing to SDGs implementation through CPAN project "Evaluating anti-discrimination measures"

March 15, 2016 CPAN

In the quest to reach zero poverty it will be necessary to reduce the social, economic and institutional discrimination that some groups face in their everyday lives. In CPAN we are working on a rigorous review of anti-discrimination and affirmative action policies to try and map out what evidence exists on how to reduce discrimination.

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SDG Series #5: Intersecting inequalities Disability, poverty dynamics, and the SDGs

March 10, 2016 CPAN

Disability may cause poverty, and poverty may cause disability. This two-way street has become a landmark drive-through visited time and again in disability and poverty discourses. But what about the intersections – women with disabilities who are persistently poor?

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SDGs Series #4: SDGs prioritization in Uganda

March 9, 2016 CPAN

For Uganda the goal of achieving zero-poverty by 2030 is going to be a lot more intractable than that of “halving” it – the goal for the last 15 years. Accordingly, priority setting for implementation of the SDGs will have to be more focused, tactical and innovative.

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SDGs series #3: Social Protection to End Extreme Poverty in Cambodia

March 4, 2016 CPAN

Enhancing social protection is an immediate priority for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Cambodia. Cambodia’s historical success in pro-poor growth over the last decade sheds light into several challenges that growth, as defined from an economic perspective, has failed to sufficiently address, including chronic poverty, child poverty, inequality and malnutrition. These unfinished issues require a multi-sectoral approach.

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SDGs series #2: Implementing SGDs in Tanzania: Prospects and Challenges

March 4, 2016 CPAN

SGDs agenda is ambitious, with the aim of eliminating rather than reducing poverty – the “leave no one behind” notion. Goal 1 target 1.1 aims at reducing extreme poverty to all people everywhere by 2030. Poverty especially in rural Tanzania has been declining at a very low pace from 40.8% in 1991/92 to 33.3% in 2011/12 (7.5 percentage points decrease for 20 years). Inequalities are also huge. Thus, Tanzania has to make sequential prioritization and serious resource mobilization from domestic and international sources for its implementation.

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