Introduction and Summary of Findings

Jeff Waage

London International Development Centre

1. Halve poverty and hunger2. Achieve universal primary education3. Eliminate gender disparity4. Reduce by 2/3 the child (< 5) mortality rate5. Reduce by 3/4 the maternal mortality rate6. Halt and reverse the spread of HIV AIDS and incidence of malaria and other diseases7. Ensure environmental sustainability8. Develop a global partnership for development

The Millennium Development Goals

• encouraged global political consensus• provided a focus for advocacy • improved the targeting and flow of aid • Improved monitoring of development projects

Besides making progress towards their targets, the MDG have

The Lancet-LIDC Commission • Draws upon LIDC – a

unique interdisciplinary academic consortium for development

• Evaluates progress on MDGs 1-7 and draws out cross-cutting issues that limit MDGs

• Build a cross-sectoral vision of development goal setting beyond 2015

The Lancet-LIDC Commission • Draws upon LIDC – a unique

academic cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary research consortium for development

• Evaluates progress on MDGs 1-7 and draws out cross-cutting issues that limit MDGs

• Build a cross-sectoral vision of development goal setting beyond 2015

The Lancet-LIDC Commission • Draws upon LIDC – a unique

academic cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary research consortium for development

• Evaluates progress on MDGs 1-7 and draws out cross-cutting issues that limit MDGs

• Build a cross-sectoral vision of development goal setting beyond 2015

MDGs 2,3

MDGs 4,5,6

MDGs 1,7

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Our approach

Cross-cutting analysis

• Conceptualization and execution

• Ownership• Equity

Conceptualization and execution: goals, targets, indicators

• Problems with goals– MDGs a subset of broader Millennium vision– Goals built around narrow, pre-existing targets– Gaps in coverage, lack of synergy

Improvement in education

Improvement in health

Improvement in education

Enrolment, progression, learning achievement, but specific MDG focus reduced attention to specific educational opportunities like sanitation in schools

Improvement in health

Health practice, fertility, child & maternal health – but focus on 1o education reduces efforts on family planning and training of health professionals

Gaps in targets reduce synergies

Conceptualization: goals, targets, indicators

• Problems with targets and indicators– Fail to capture the complexity of delivering goals• Income as a proxy for poverty reduction• Enrolment ratio as a proxy for learning• School gender ratio as a proxy for gender equity

• Lack of, or unclear, ownership of targets

Cross-cutting analysis

• Conceptualization and execution

• Ownership• Equity