Month: April 2016

Africa, Food security, Français

Entretien: Sahel, Plan d’action pour un engagement renouvelé 2015-2020

Entretien avec M. Jean-Pierre Marcelli, Directeur du Département Afrique, Agence française de développement (AFD) L’Agence française de développement (AFD) a élaboré un plan d’action pour opérationnaliser sa stratégie au Sahel pendant la période 2015-2020.1 À travers ce plan, elle développe des propositions pour une action plus lucide, plus ambitieuse et plus adaptée aux contextes sahéliens en pleine mutation. Dans une logique de stabilisation d’ensemble, le … Continue reading Entretien: Sahel, Plan d’action pour un engagement renouvelé 2015-2020

Lia BeyelerLeave a comment
Migration

Global Skill Partnerships: A proposal for technical training in a mobile world

By Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development Migration can have benefits for everyone involved, but this is far from automatic. It requires new institutions, institutions designed for a world that moves. We propose Global Skill Partnerships (GSP) as a new way to make skilled migration more beneficial to migrant-destination countries, origin countries and migrants. A GSP is an up-front agreement between employers and/or governments in destination countries … Continue reading Global Skill Partnerships: A proposal for technical training in a mobile world

Lia BeyelerLeave a comment
SDGs

Building a GPS for the SDGs: The OECD’s data response to the SDGs

By Martine Durand, Chief Statistician, Director, Statistics Directorate, OECD World leaders have endorsed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These comprise some 169 targets in fields ranging from poverty and hunger to equality and climate action to peace and justice. To know where we are starting from, whether we’re making progress, and what we need to improve, we will need good data for governments to make evidence-based … Continue reading Building a GPS for the SDGs: The OECD’s data response to the SDGs

Lia BeyelerLeave a comment
SDGs

SDG data discussion: what next?

By Johannes Jütting, PARIS21 Secretariat Manager After months of intense discussions, representatives from more than 190 national statistical offices agreed on a global monitoring framework for the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 goals and 169 targets of the framework will be complemented by 230 indicators. This is a huge achievement given the complex political and technical challenges that had to be … Continue reading SDG data discussion: what next?

Lia BeyelerLeave a comment