WE ARE THE FIRST GENERATION THAT CAN END POVERTY

United Nations Development Program

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United Nations

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LEAST DEVELOPED Countries

The MDGs represent a global partnership

that has grown from the commitments

and targets established at the world

summits of the 1990s. Responding to the

world's main development challenges and

to the calls of civil society, the MDGs

promote poverty reduction, education,

maternal health, gender equality, and aim

at combating child mortality, AIDS and

other diseases.

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2:

Achieve universal

primary education

Goal 3:

Promote gender equality

and empower women

Goal 5:

Improve maternal health

Goal 6:

Combat HIV/AIDS,

malaria and other diseases

Goal 7:

Ensure environmental

sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

The first seven goals are mutually reinforcing and are directed at reducing poverty in all its forms. The last goal - global partnership for development - is about the means to achieve the first seven.

The MDGs are focused primarily on 3 things:

HEALTH, EDUCATION AND INCOME.

Universal Declaration

of Human Rights

MDG 2

Achieving Universal Primary Education

TARGET

“Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.”

UDHR’s Article 26 states

“Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory.”

1. Providing for human FREEDOMS

2. Universalism and equality

3. Promoting WELL-BEING

4. EMPOWERING the vulnerable

5. Sustainability

Sen

Chambers

Friedmann

Christian

key principles of a

Human Rights-Based approach

Mahbub ul HaqFounder of the Human Development Report

HDI Rankings 2008

High Medium Low

1. Iceland 76. Turkey 175. Mozambique2. Norway 77. Dominica 176. Liberia3. Canada 78. Lebanon 177. DR Congo4. Australia 79. Peru 178. CAR5. Ireland 80. Columbia 179. Sierra Leone6. Netherlands7. Sweden8. Japan9. Luxembourg10. Switzerland

“The process through which individuals,

organizations and societies obtain,

strengthen and maintain the capabilities

to set and achieve their own development

objectives over time.”

UNDP Practice Note: Capacity Development

STEP

PROCESS5

Step 1:

Engage

stakeholders

Step 2:

Assess

assets and

needs

Step 3:

Formulate a

response

Step 4:

Implement

Step 5:

EvaluateCapacity

Development

Process

STEP 1: ENGAGE

Once support is requested, UNDP will engage national stakeholders with the attempt to ensure they commit to the capacity development agenda and embed it into their nations development priorities.

Step 1:

Engage

stakeholders

on capacity

development

STEP 2: ASSESS

Working with stakeholders to assesswhat capacity already exists locally. Assessment looks at what is already there, how to retain it, what can be improved upon, all with the goal of prioritizing the improvements the country wants to make.

Step 1:

Engage

stakeholders

on capacity

developmentStep 2:

Assess

capacity

assets and

needsThree questions:

“Capacity for why”

“Capacity for whom”

“Capacity for what”

STEP 3: RESPOND

How might the country respond to the issues raised in the assessment? What is going to be done.

Step 1:

Engage

stakeholders

on capacity

developmentStep 2:

Assess

capacity

assets and

needs

Step 3:

Formulate a

response

STEP 4: IMPLEMENT

After a country has decided their needs and what fits their needs, UNDP supports them to implement their plan. The country does this themselves to ensure sustainability.

Step 1:

Engage

stakeholders

on capacity

developmentStep 2:

Assess

capacity

assets and

needs

Step 3:

Formulate a

response

Step 4:

Implement

STEP 5: EVALUATE

Did it help improve systems that contribute to greater development effectiveness?

Did it meet the set objectives?

Is it sustainable and manageable?

Step 1:

Engage

stakeholders

on capacity

developmentStep 2:

Assess

capacity

assets and

needs

Step 3:

Formulate a

response

Step 4:

Implement

Step 5:

Evaluate

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FINANCE

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Results Based Management (RBM) in UNDP

• A strategic management approach aimed at ensuring

that activities achieve desired results

• Stresses results rather than inputs and activities

(outputs outcomes impacts)

• Their challenge is to

constantly improve

their approach and

its underlying systems

• UNDP is committed to enhancing accountability within the

organization and in all its operations and partnerships, and

to promoting shared goals between donors and recipients, in

order to enhance participation and transparency.

• Accountability is based on a hierarchy of three tiers of

accountability.

– Organizational Accountability

– Program Accountability

– Staff Accountability

Accountability Framework

All of this is accountability within

the UNDP, but what happens when

resources are delegated to

governments and programs

OUTSIDE the UNDP?

MALAWI

MalawiGovernment

YOU seek financial

help from the UNDP.

GO to the UNDP, ask

for and receive resources.

Money Education

Food Clean Water

Livelihood

Human Resources

The UNDP and the government of Malawi have picked your organization to hold a 10-day training seminar to educate and train a group of teachers, nurses, and government workers on HIV/AIDS testing and counseling.

National AIDS Commission (NAC)

Trainees

The hope is that by training you, you will work in your communities to educate, test, counsel, and help people get the treatment they need for HIV/AIDS.

You are among a group of well-educated people working in your community. The National AIDS Commission (NAC) has selected you to take part in a 10-day training seminar on HIV/AIDS testing and counseling.

What do you like?

What do you dislike?

Millennium Development Goals

LIKES…• Gives project sense of urgency

• ZERO tolerance for poverty

• Is it failure if you don’t meet

the goals?

Millennium Development Goals

A DEFICIT of…HEALTH, EDUCATION AND INCOME

Spiritual

Poverty

Material

Poverty

Physical

Weakness

Isolation

Vulnerability

Powerlessness

Material

Poverty

Physical

Weakness

Isolation

Vulnerability

Poverty as

EntanglementChambers

Does UNDP’s “empowerment”

match with Friedmann’s “empowerment?”

Social Networks

SocialOrganization

Instruments of workand livelihood

Information for self development

Surplus timeDefensible

life space

Knowledgeand skills

Financialresources

SOCIAL

BOUNDARIES

Poverty as Lack of

Access to Social Power

Friedmann

• Measuring poverty and development primarily in terms of INCOME.

• Do the poor have the capability to pursue their own agenda?

• Countries are expected to submit to MDG’s rather than create

their own agenda.

Sen

Development as

Freedom

Political

Freedoms

Transparency

Guarantees

Social

Opportunities

Economic

Facilities

Protective

Security

• Does the UNDP have a god-complex?

• Do they contribute to the god-complex of wealthy nations?

• LARGE dependency on wealthy nations to provide…

reducing the poor to passive recipients and marring their identity

Cultural

System

Biophysical

System

Personal

System

Social

System

Spiritual

System

Deception by Principalities and Powers

MarredIdentity

Captivity toGod-ComplexesOf Non-Poor

Weak MindAnd Body

Inadequacy in World View

Poverty as

Disempowerment

Christian

DISLIKES…

• Goals defined before project begins

• No acknowledgement of uniqueness

in different cultures

• Women’s role reduced to mother or

daughter

• Focus on health and education

addresses social level only

• Depend HEAVILY on outside $$

• How do you measure success?

Can you put a number on HUMAN

development?

• Focus on END rather than

PROCESS.

• Is it possible to eradicate poverty?

• Is it sustainable?

Millennium Development Goals