Trade-off, Comparative Evaluation and Global Obligation: Reflections on the Poverty, Gender and Education Millennium Development Goals

Unterhalter, Elaine

doi:10.1080/19452829.2012.681296

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“…At the same time, however, both practitioners and policy-makers recognise some limitations within the MDG framework. Most of these critiques do not intend to suggest having no framework altogether but are rather ‘critical friends’, aiming to identify what can be improved ( Unterhalter, 2012 ). In this same vein, the purpose of this literature review is to describe the broad variety of limitations found in the literature and, thus, identify opportunities for discussion and improvements for the post-2015 agenda.…”

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Limitations of the Millennium Development Goals: a literature review

Fehling

Nelson

Venkatapuram

2013

Global Public Health

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With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showing uneven progress, this review identifies possible limitations arising from the MDG framework itself rather than extrinsic issues. A multidisciplinary literature review was conducted with a focus on limitations in the formulation of the MDGs, their structure, content and implementation. Of 1837 MDG-related articles, 90 met criteria for analysis. Articles describe MDGs as being created by only a few stakeholders without adequate involvement by developing countries and overlooking development objectives previously agreed upon. Others claim MDGs are unachievable and simplistic, not adapted to national needs, do not specify accountable parties and reinforce vertical interventions. While MDGs have promoted increased health and well-being in many countries by recognising and deliberating on the possible constraints of the MDG framework, the post-2015 agenda may have even greater impact.Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers (Henry Louis Mencken)

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Limitations of the Millennium Development Goals: a literature review

Fehling

Nelson

Venkatapuram

2013

Global Public Health

235

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“…Given their prominent role in developing the approach, both Nussbaum and Sen have had a strong influence on all capabilities theorists, and many scholarly articles clearly draw from both their perspectives (e.g. Manion & Menashy, 2013;Unterhalter, 2009Unterhalter, , 2012b. However, some authors associate more directly with a specific version of the capabilities approach.…”

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The Centrality of Participant Voice in Illuminating the Gender Regime in Education Research Using a Human Capabilities Analysis

Vanner

2015

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The human capabilities approach distinguishes between capabilities (a person’s ability to choose what she wants to do/be) and functionings (actually doing/being what she wants). When used to analyze gender equality in education, it draws attention to the nature of education and the extent to which it is equally empowering for girls and boys. This research synthesis examines the use of the human capabilities approach as an analytical framework for gender and education research. The approach’s emphasis on participant voice as a means of articulating what is valued in education highlights contradictions and similarities within a given community and attends to the way that the gender regime of the school characterizes the educational experience. This is particularly meaningful in relation to the views of student participants including children, whose descriptions of their educational values, goals and experiences are critical in understanding the daily operations and experiences of gender regimes in schools.

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“…During the last couple of decades gender equality and women’s rights have become key concerns in international development aid policies and a main objective in the Millennium effort to eradicate poverty (see Cornwall & Brock, 2005; Unterhalter, 2012). 1 Indeed, among the eight Millennium Development Goals that were settled to reduce poverty by 2015, third one was to ‘promote gender equality and empower women’ (Porter, 2013, p. 3).…”

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Measuring Women’s Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: Experiences of Hanji Women in Kashmir

Rather

Bhat

2017

Sociological Bulletin

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The empowerment of women in Jammu and Kashmir as elsewhere in India, no doubt, has been part of the development planning process and has helped improving the status of the state’s women in various spheres, but serious challenges still remain on the ground, and this is more so in case of the women of marginalised communities, such as Hanji (fisher). This article presents an attempt to locate the status of Hanji women of Kashmir from sociocultural standpoints, and gives an analysis of their economic contributions towards poverty reduction at familial and household level. The empirical evidence analysed reveals that majority of Hanji women despite being low at some major parameters of empowerment, were playing variety of hand to elevate their families socially and economically.

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Trade-off, Comparative Evaluation and Global Obligation: Reflections on the Poverty, Gender and Education Millennium Development Goals

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Limitations of the Millennium Development Goals: a literature review

Limitations of the Millennium Development Goals: a literature review

The Centrality of Participant Voice in Illuminating the Gender Regime in Education Research Using a Human Capabilities Analysis

Measuring Women’s Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: Experiences of Hanji Women in Kashmir

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