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Paraguay’s new National Development Plan targets Social Progress

Posted on March 12, 2015   By Jose R. Molinas Vega, Ph.D, Minister-Secretary of Planning for Economic and Social Development. Republic of Paraguay Last December the Paraguayan Government agreed on

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Financing the Post-2015 education agenda – how to ensure there are enough resources to get all children in school and learning?

Posted on March 12, 2015   Written by Rob Doble, Education Adviser in Save the Children’s policy and advocacy division and Yousra Semmache Education Policy & Advocacy Assistant, Save the Children UK

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Ensuring the SDGs are relevant for high income countries

Posted on February 27, 2015 Written by Shannon Kindornay, an Adjunct Research Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. She is also member of the Post-2015 Data

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A Test of the Commitment to Access Plus Learning

Posted on January 21, 2015 Written by Ruth Levine, Global Development and Population Program Director at the Hewlett Foundation on the the Hewlett Foundation Blog. “The bell has rung. Civil society

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Whither a revolution? Three observations in response to the Roadmap for a Country-led Data Revolution.

Posted on January 21, 2015 Written by Florian Krätke, Economist, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP) (floriankratke@gmail.com) in response to PARIS21’s public consultation. Discussions on the ‘data revolution’ have inflated

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Funding the revolution

Posted on January 20, 2015 Written by Claire Melamed, Director of Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme at ODI and Grant Cameron, Manager at the World Bank Group (DECDG). A revolution starts

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A universal challenge: Education is the foundation for peaceful societies

Posted on January 8, 2015 Written by Amina J. Mohammed,  the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon‘s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning. [The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is the largest citizen-led household based survey of

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Comments on the Secretary-General’s Synthesis Report on Post-2015: An Introduction

Posted on December 19, 2014 Written by Andrew Norton, Director of Research at ODI and Elizabeth Stuart, Research Fellow for the Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme at ODI. A couple of

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April 2015: Five Headlines from a Big Month for the Data Revolution

 Posted on April 30, 2015 This blog post is written by Sarah T. Lucas, Program Officer, Global Development and Population, at the Hewlett Foundation If the history of the data

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Toward an African Data Revolution

Posted on May 1, 2015 This blog post is written by Rachel Quint, Program Fellow, Global Development and Population Programme, at the Hewlett Foundation. As Sarah wrote in her recent blog post,