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Transforming global development: An LDC perspective on the post-2015 agenda
Posted on: 25 February 2014
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Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have much to contribute to forging a new global agreement on development to replace the Millennium Development Goals after 2015. However, there is a significant risk that LDC positions and perspectives will get insufficient attention as the post-2015 negotiations move forward. Individual LDC negotiating power is weak, but as a group they can be powerful. This paper, prepared by an independent group of experienced development practitioners from LDCs, explores global development issues of most relevance to LDCs and offers suggestions on common positions that would help LDCs assure that their development objectives are effectively incorporated into the post-2015 framework and goals.
International Year of Small Island Developing States
Posted on: 25 February 2014
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he United Nations has launched the International Year of Small Island Developing States, which aims to celebrate the contributions that this group of countries has made to the world. The Year will also help raise awareness of the UN Conference on Small Island Developing States, which will be held in September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, and will focus on building partnerships for sustainable development.
Development progress
Posted on: 17 February 2014
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This provides a hub for ideas, debate and resources on how the world is doing on international development goals.
Bangalore: From garden city to garbage city
Posted on: 12 February 2014
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Bangalore is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. With a population approaching 9 million, it produces around 4000 tonnes of solid waste each day. Most of this is dumped in land fill sites near villages on the city’s outskirts. But is this the best way of dealing with the waste problem? Are there other solutions less damaging to both people and the environment? This film is about what happens to Bangalore’s waste, the controversies that it has provoked, and some of the potential solutions.
Understanding the “t” in bus rapid transit oriented development
Posted on: 11 February 2014
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a cost-effective mass transportation system characterized by exclusive bus lanes and reduction of travel times, high-passenger capacity and level boarding, and a relatively short construction process. Latin America and Asia are becoming the world leaders of BRT with 63.26% and 26.43% of world ridership, respectively. The introduction of BRT systems in these emerging countries raises the question of how a BRT network shapes citywide development, and in turn, what cities can do to ensure that public transport is a positive force in shaping environmentally sustainable and economically equitable cities.
Placemaking and the future of cities
Posted on: 3 February 2014
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This handbook, published in 2012, aims to serve as a guide for use by municipal leaders in future public space projects laying out 10 best practices for public space projects. These 10 facets of the Placemaking approach illustrate the process that Project for Public Spaces (PPS) and UN-Habitat have undertaken together, and demonstrate the effectiveness of such global partnerships in sustainable urban development through networks such as SUD-Net. UN-Habitat has been developing a vision for public space. PPS has taken this vision as a starting point and has expanded it to incorporate case study narratives describing the impact of the Placemaking process in nearly a dozen cities throughout the Global South.
An urban dimension in a new set of development goals
Posted on: 31 January 2014
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One of the longstanding themes in the post-2015 discussion has been how a new set of goals might address the problems and opportunities of urban areas more satisfactorily than the existing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). More people in developing countries will be living in urban areas over the next decades, with a wide range of implications for both urban and rural poverty. Yet it is not clear how such a local, context-specific and cross-cutting issue can be integrated usefully into a global set of goals. After a careful consideration of the existing evidence, the experience with the MDGs, including the ‘slum target’, and existing proposals for a post-MDG framework, this working paper proposes five steps to incorporate an urban dimension into a new development framework.
The urgent need for skilled planners in developing world cities
Posted on: 23 January 2014
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A video interview with Vanessa Watson, professor of city planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at Cape Town University. She is interested in the effects of inappropriate planning practices and theories especially in Africa.
Post2015.org
Posted on: 21 January 2014
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The debate on what should follow the Millennium Development Goals when they expire in 2015 is underway. There is a new meeting, report or conference on the subject somewhere in the world almost every day. Trying to keep track of what the key players are thinking, writing and saying is becoming increasingly difficult. This post2015.org website and the @post2015 Twitter account bring together the key documents, reports and ongoing research on the post-2015 agenda, with regular updates on events and briefings about the emerging agenda.
Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet
Posted on: 16 January 2014
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The Institute of Development Studies has issues this working paper which argues we need to reimagine development tactics to fashion Development 3.0, to match what business analysts now call World 3.0, a global system characterized by high turbulence and new threats. The main argument of the paper outlines a number of changes needed if we hope to fashion more effective ways to promote development for us all.
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