...PMENTeffectiveness CO RDINAT O ASSESSMENT O DEVELO F PMENT RESULTS EVAL UATI ON OF UNDP CONTRI BUTI ON ZAMBIA Evaluation Office, February 2010 United Nations Development Programme REPORtS PUBliSHED UNDER tHE aDR SERiES Afghanistan Argentina Bangladesh Barbados Benin Bhutan Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cambodia Chile China Colombia Republic of the Congo Ecuador Egypt Ethiopia Georgia Guatemala Guyana Honduras India Jamaica Jordan Lao PDR Libya Maldives Montenegro Mozambique Nicaragua Nigeria Peru Philippines Rwanda Serbia Seychelles Sudan Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Turkey Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan Viet Nam Yemen EvalUatiON tEam team leader team members EO task manager EO Research assistant Erik Lyby Honorine Muyoyeta Jorry Mwenechanya Urs Nagel Zembaba Ayalew aSSESSmENt OF DEvElOPmENt RESUltS: malDivES Copyright © UNDP 2010, all rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. The analysis and recommendations of this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations Development Programme, its Executive Board or the United Nations Member States. This is an independent publication by UNDP Evaluation Office. Cover photos provided by Urs Nagel and UNDP Zambia. Design: Green Communication Design inc. Production: Consolidated Graphics FOREWORD The current country programme of the United Nations...
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...refers to such a wide range of things, e.g. policies, strategies, processes or an ideology, it may be concluded ‘slippery and elusive’ understanding of globalisation arises from its involvement in so many different areas of academia and the extensive and continuing discussion therein surrounding its properties. Regardless of different views on the definition and scope of globalisation, ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ have more specific criteria, although these meanings have also changed over time. The divide between ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ is broadly considered an economic, social and political division. In modern political literature, ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ classifications are usually attributed by the Human Development Index (HDI), which...
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...Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience Empowered lives. Resilient nations. The 2014 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by UNDP since 1990 as independent, empirically grounded analyses of major development issues, trends and policies. Additional resources related to the 2014 Human Development Report can be found online at http://hdr.undp.org, including complete editions or summaries of the Report in more than 20 languages, a collection of papers commissioned for the 2014 Report, interactive maps and databases of national human development indicators, full explanations of the sources and methodologies employed in the Report’s human development indices, country profiles and other background materials as well as previous global, regional and national Human Development Reports. Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience Empowered lives. Resilient nations. Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Reports 1990–2014 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007/2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 Concept and Measurement of Human Development Financing Human Development Global Dimensions of Human Development People’s Participation New Dimensions of Human Security Gender and Human Development Economic...
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...HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2004 Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to speak their language, practice their religion, and participate in shaping their culture— so that all people can choose to be who they are. 65 108 166 55 34 82 3 14 91 51 40 138 29 62 6 99 161 134 114 66 128 72 33 56 175 173 130 141 4 105 169 167 43 94 73 136 144 168 45 163 48 52 30 32 Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Congo, Dem. Rep. of the Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic 17 154 95 98 100 120 103 109 156 36 170 81 13 16 122 155 97 19 131 24 93 121 160 172 104 153 115 23 38 7 127 111 101 10 22 21 79 9 90 78 148 28 44 110 135 50 80 Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea...
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...Group Activity- Caselet 2 Group 7 1. The Philippines is No. 83 on HDI ranking last 2003, No.112 last 2011 and No. 114 as reported by UNDP for 2013. Account on the reasons for such changes. Compare the following factors; a. life expectancy b. literacy c. average GDP Despite gains it has made on the economic front, the Philippines remained at 114th globally for the 5th straight year in the Human Development Index (HDI) released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Friday, March 15. The HDI is a key indicator of citizens' state of health, education, and income, among others. In the 2013 Human Development Report titled "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World," the UNDP said the Philippines' HDI score has been improving in the past 30 years. But its score -- 0.654 -- is still slightly below the East Asia and the Pacific regional average of 0.683. (A total of 186 countries were covered by the UNDP study.) Some data on the Philippines from the 2013 HDR include the following: * The life expectancy of Filipinos is 69 years old. * The mean years of schooling in the Philippines is 8.9 years while the expected years of schooling is 11.7 years. * The country's Gross National Income per capita level is $3,752 (computed using 2005 purchasing power parity) * The country ranked 77th overall in the Gender Inequality Index, the third lowest rank in the ASEAN. * Around 18.4% of the population lived below $1.25 in the 2011-2012...
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...TOPIC: ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN MANPOWER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: CASE STUDY OF UNIVERISY OF LAGOS Keyword: Higher Education, Manpower, Planning and Development. Abstract Education is frequently seen as a means to strengthen national capacity, (United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP), 2010). How exactly education contributes to manpower planning in Nigeria and yet high unemployment rate often remains a black box. Hence, there is a strong case to be made that the interplay between higher education and manpower planning and development should be a focus of attention in the policy arena. Conventional thinking suggests that education, and higher education in particular, is a way of meeting the manpower requirements for economic development, (Ojo, 2006). Here, manpower preparation is assumed to be a major means of capacity development. Manpower forecasting and matching is a classical approach to educational planning. The first manpower planning exercise in Nigeria started in 1959 with the appointment of Sir Eric Ashby Commission, (Ojo, 2006). With the worsening unemployment situation and the shortage of high-level manpower, that is the simultaneous occurrence of surplus of unskilled labour and shortage of skilled labour, manpower planning in Nigeria became lacked and wanted, (ibid). The main problems of the education sector in general and Africa in particular among others include poor quality, mismatch between education and the labour market. On quality, high...
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...THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN “ECONOMIC GROWTH” AND “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT” Kevin Bucknall WHY ARE WE INTERESTED IN THE DIFFERENCE? · We need to understand the processes of each better; it is useful information. · · · · We need to know in order to advise governments on policies and what they can do to improve their performance. Many questions concerning third world countries impact on growth or development; they may be either a help or a hindrance. Some•issues•are•created•by•growth•but•not•by•development,•for•example•pollution. Focussing solely on economic growth as desirable can lead to undesirable consequences. ECONOMIC GROWTH What is growth? This is reasonably unambiguous; it is the change in national income over time, usually measured over one year. National income is the amount produced by a country in one year. How can we measure growth? We measure it by the percentage change in the level of national income, often over the period of one year. There are three ways of adding it up: · · · production, or incomes,•or expenditure GDP = gross domestic product (produced within a country). GNP = gross national product (includes income coming into or going out of country). NNP = net national produce (an allowance is made for depreciation of capital). National income per capita often matters most if looking at how well off a country is; how well it is doing; or if comparing it with another country. © Copyright Kevin B. Bucknall 2013, but you are free to distribute this article as widely...
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...FISHThe World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2015 represented the world's largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development' community. The Forum was co-organised by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). It was intended to help organisations coordinate multi-stakeholder activities, information exchange, the creation of knowledge, and the sharing of best practices. Globethics.net organised a workshop on the 29th of May, on "The Ethics of Digital Innovation", during which fundamental questions surrounding the many social, legal and economic repercussions of new digital technologies, and what power relations are at play were raised and addressed. With Prof. Dr Christoph Stückelberger as moderator, four panellists gave their views on some of the ethical issues that they have come across in their own fields, and where they saw the need for a great ethical understanding and awareness. Prof. Patrick-Yves Badillo, Director of Medi@LAB-Genève, with his presentation entitled "New digital divide, or squaring the circle?" intended to delve deeper into the preconceived notions that we might have surrounding the global ‘digital divide'. Digital technologies were seen as the key solution in the 1990s, and as a key factor for growth, competiveness and greater employment. Closing the digital...
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...Q: “What is human development? Critically summarize the views of Mahbub ul Haq on how human development can be realistically attained within prevailing socio- economic conditions. What in your view is the significance of human development as a contemporary vision for social reorganization?” Discuss the nature of this significance with the help of one or two examples that illustrate your points. A: Human development is well-being concept and wider range of the human context. It is included the studies of human conditions. Human development meaning comes at last twenty-five years. Human development is like approach, which is define conditions of human life. Human development means not like that only growth of economic expansion, its growth in opportunities in every field. Development of kind which allows people their respective choices. There are two dimensions of sketch of human development. First dimension is directly enhancing of human abilities, and other is creating conditions for human development. Directly enhancing of human abilities included long and healthy life, knowledge, and decent standard of living. Creating conditions for human development included like participation in political and community life, environment sustainability, human security and rights, gender equality. Human development is concept of totally development of the people. Human life should be based upon their choices, not insisting that they make use of them. It is true that no one can guarantees...
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...rising per capita income, the future is no less than promising. And if one goes by the words of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru where he says “The achievements we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that awaits” It’s the right time to analyze and anticipate the challenge that awaits us if we aim to appear as a global giant by 2025 and devise a roadmap to tackle the same. One of striking feature of the great Indian story has been the paradox it has displayed. Despite being in the League of Nations who survive well the global recession and enjoys the optimism of international markets towards its fast growing economy, India still fair poorly in sectors like Infrastructure and Human development. With every fourth kid malnourished and every third person languishing below poverty line, the joy of seven percent growth rate turns bitter. The maternal mortality rate ie the annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to...
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...A Project Planning Document Based on "Promotion of Development and Confidence-Building in the Chittagong Hill Tracts DEV 612 Course Title: Project Appraisal and Management Submitted to: Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan Ph.D. (Wales), Post Doc. (Oxford) Professor of Development Studies, University of Dhaka; Country Representative, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Bangladesh Country Office; and Senior Commonwealth Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK & BRAC Development Institute (BDI) BRAC University Mohakhali, Dhaka Submitted by: JAGATBANDHU MAZUMDAR BRAC University Dept: BDI, Roll: 08262013 Semester: Spring 2011 Submission date: APRIL 09, 2011 Acronyms ADPAnnual Development Programme BCHWs Basic Community Health Workers CBConfidence Building CE Community Empowerment CFCommunity Facilitator CHT Chittagong Hill Tracts CHTDBChittagong Hill Tracts Development Board CHTDFChittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility DEXDirect Execution Project DMO District Medical Officer DPFC District Project Facilitation Committee ECEuropean Commission EOP Economic Opportunities EPI Expanded Programme for Immunization FGDs Focus Group Discussions GOBGovernment of Bangladesh ICB Institutional Capacity Building INGO International Non Government Organization JSSJana Sanghati Somiti LCGLocal Consultative Group LGICB Local Governance and Institutional Capacity Building MHFP Ministry of Health...
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...and UNDP Human Development Reports Introduction The source of the human development approach is from the theory of Sen which says that development comes about only when capabilities expand. The idea generated from the theory is that the core reason for development is to ensure that human lives are improved. This can only be achieved if there is expansion in what they can be or do. It could include things such as the being well nourished and healthy, participating in the activities of the community and being knowledgeable. Hence, development can only occur once the obstacles that were present preventing an individual from doing something are removed. The obstacles might be in the form of ill health, illiteracy, lack of resources or lack of freedom- both political and civil. When these obstacles are removed one is said to be capable; hence the origin of the concept of capability Sen, 160). Purpose Statement The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of capabilities approach that was developed by Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize winner, and M. Nussban. Amartya has enabled the measurement of human development by the United Development Program (UNDP). He helped invent the capabilities approach, which is the foundation of indices used by UNDP in their measurements. Through these indices the achievement in education and health can be measured in addition to income (Nussbaum, 67). Objectives The main aim of this paper is to establish whether the Human Development Reports (HDRs)...
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...Building Versus Capacity Development in Healthcare Soumya Vyas Student, Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India Capacity building is not a new concept in healthcare. Every innovation has been evidently supported by Capacity Building to establish effective healthcare systems. The term was improvised by UNDP in 1991 as Community Capacity Building which gave its application in three levels namely individual, institutional and societal. This concept immediately brings to mind ideas like training, financial or technical aid, etc. Although it has been an essential and effective approach, there is possible scope for betterment using Capacity Development. It can be explained as the process of obtaining, strengthening and maintaining the capabilities at all the three levels to set and achieve their own development objectives over time. Although the distinction between the two is minute, the adaption of the latter where necessary can bring about considerable change and effect. Development zooms in on the exiting features than can be transformed into capabilities. Instead of introduction of the lacking, capacity development helps realise an alternate route to the same objective using unrelated but pre-existing features. The study will elaborate on the example of such from the healthcare field explaining how new measures can be evolved to realise basic goals. One of the most profound issues in healthcare in India is the budget crunch and Capacity Development can help overcome...
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...Development is a complex issue, with many different and sometimes contentious definitions. A basic perspective equates development with economic growth. The United Nations Development Programme uses a more detailed definition- according to them development is 'to lead long and healthy lives, to be knowledgeable, to have access to the resources needed for a decent standard of living and to be able to participate in the life of the community. We have to identify some of these obstacles and discuss them in line with how it can be changed for development of the third World; POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENTAL BARRIERS; Governments and political institutions play an important role in the economic development process even in capitalist countries. While early experiences with economic development, such as England's experience during the 18th century, did not involve a large role for government, the role played by the government has steadily increased in importance. At the current time, if a government is unable or unwilling to play an active role in the economic development process, then the government itself is considered an obstacle to economic development. SOCIAL BARRIERS; Economic development rides on the shoulders of entrepreneurs who venture to do things that benefit them and the society. Whether or not a society has a sufficient number of entrepreneurs to foster modern economic growth may depend on the society's values and structure. Many of the developed nations of today encouraged...
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...General Background on Global Microfinance Trends 0 Contents 1.0 OVER VIEW OF MICROFINANCE IN GHANA...................................................... 3 1.1 DEFINITION .....................................................................................................................3 1.2 EVOLUTION OF MICROFINANCE IN GHANA ..............................................................3 1.3 THE NEED FOR MICROFINANCE IN GHANA................................................................4 1.4 MICROFINANCE CLIENTS IN GHANA...........................................................................5 2.0 PROFILES OF MICROFINANCE APEX BODIES IN GHANA................................... 5 2.1 Ghana Co-operative Credit Unions Association (GCCUA).....................................5 2.1.1 Some Current Performance of GCCUA.............................................................. 6 2.1.2 Outstanding Challenges and Future Resource Requirements of CUA ........ 6 2.1.3 Summary of Credit Unions Annual Performance ............................................. 6 2.2 GHANA CO-OPERATIVE SUSU COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION (GCSCA)..................7 2.2.1 Some Current Performance of GCSCA .............................................................. 7 2.2.2 Outstanding Challenges and Future Resource Requirements for GCSCA .. 7 2.2.3 PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF GCSCA TO CUA AS AT OCTOBER 2007.. 8 2.3 ASSOCIATION OF FINANCIAL NGOs (ASSFIN) .....................................................
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