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The Post-2015 Agenda: What comes next?

© UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2228/Dormino - A boy jumps a fence after crossing a river in the city of Ouanaminthe, on the north-eastern border with the Dominican Republic. The fence was installed to stop illegal crossings into the Dominican Republic. The river, an unofficial crossing point, runs under a bridge that is a main border crossing between the two countries. Authorities are lenient with children at unofficial and official border crossings, assuming that the children will return to Haiti at the end of the day.


With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) fastly approaching, UNICEF's Office of Research relases a special series of expert commentaries focused on what the post-2015 agenda may look like.

Commentaries:

Global goal setting: clarifying the concept and avoiding the pitfalls
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs at The New School University, New York

End Extreme Poverty, Increase Environmental Sustainability
by Lauren Barredo and Guido Schmidt-Traub, respectively Manager and Executive Director at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Will the post 2015 MDG settlement be part of the problem, or part of the solution?
by J. Allister McGregor, Professorial Fellow and Team Leader of the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Rethinking sustainable development
by Ms. Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

Promoting Priorities for Children in the new Development Agenda
Richard Morgan, UNICEF Senior Advisor, Post-2015 Development Agenda

Development beyond 2015: new One-World goals for critical global challenges
Mukesh Kapila, Professor for Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, Manchester University; Co-director of Project on Post-2015 Development Goals

Equity in a changing landscape of poverty - from global to local goals?
Meera Tiwari, Reader in International Development, University of East London

Towards a Post-2015 Development Paradigm
Barry Carin, Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)