The End of the MDGs?
This morning the Secretary General, and Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator of UNDP, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser on the MDGs, held a press conference to report on the progress towards achieving the MDG’s. The SG described Sachs and Grynspan as his “top development experts and senior advisers.” They cited a report issued this week [...]
UNDP: Poverty Reduction or Empowerment Agenda?
Today on Twitter, UNDP’s Helen Clark took questions about UNDP and women’s empowerment in development, and left important questions unanswered. The official UNDP website stated that the chat was supposed to spark answers to the question: “How Can We Empower Women to End Poverty?” but it quickly became a platform for vague statements about “choice” [...]