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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 58)

Editors: Andrews, Nathan; Khalema, Nene Ernest; Assié-Lumumba, N'Dri T.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16166-2

ISBN: 978-3-319-16165-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 6, 2015

1 - 10 of 20 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect in Africa

Khalema, Nene Ernest; Andrews, Nathan; Assié-Lumumba, N’Dri T.

Pages: 1 –15

[Since coming into being in the year 2000, the normative consensus that solidified the creation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been one that has been forceful due to the number of nation-states and international organizations that have rallied around the issue. The progressive...
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Chapter 2Are We Able to Lift the Downtrodden? The MDGs and Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Ghana

Afrifa, Patricia Serwaa

Pages: 17 –30

[This paper examines how government’s interventions on the Millennium Development Goal 2 such the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) helps in addressing the educational needs of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in children’s Homes in Ghana. These issues are examined broadly within the...
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Chapter 3Urbanization and Poverty in Kinshasa: Thinking Beyond 2015 Millennium Development Goals

Longondjo, Clement

Pages: 31 –44

[Despite the recent improvements in sub-Saharan Africa’s economy, it has not translated into commensurate reductions in poverty and hunger. The population living in extreme poverty and hunger in the region has rather increased, while the world’s developing countries have experienced a reduction...
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Chapter 4Women’s Access to Land and Economic Empowerment in Selected Nigerian Communities

George, Tayo O.; Olokoyo, Felicia O.; Osabuohien, Evans S.; Efobi, Uchenna; Beecroft, Ibukun

Pages: 45 –61

[Despite various land policies that prescribe rights to land in many societies, women remain marginalized in access to and economic utilization of land. This is widespread in rural communities where informal institutions such as customs and traditions subsist. In most of these communities, the...
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Chapter 5Trusting the Coalface: Public Trust in South African Local Government and the Millennium Development Goals

Gordon, Steven Lawrence; Roberts, Benjamin J.; Struwig, Jarè

Pages: 63 –80

[Governance at the local level is at the frontline of African endeavours to complete the Millennium Development Goals. Following the third wave of democratisation in Africa, many new democratic states pursued a strategy of decentralising central governments, empowering local authorities to...
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Chapter 6Millennium Development in Retrospect: Higher Education and the Gender Factor in Africa’s Development Beyond 2015

Assié-Lumumba, N’Dri T.

Pages: 81 –98

[This chapter critically examines the conspicuous absence of higher education in the resolutions adopted in 2000 for the different MDGs and their subsequent implementation and evaluation. Ironically, while the MDGs target the female population, in most African countries higher education is...
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Chapter 7Beyond Millennium Development Goals: Funding Quality Education Through Building Local Capacity: A Sample from Tanzania

Koissaba, Serena

Pages: 99 –109

[This paper examines how local farmers in Central Tanzania can develop economic initiatives that will significantly impact their ability to participate in cost sharing measures of financing quality education in the region. This chapter offers suggestions on how post-2015 Millennium Development...
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Chapter 8African Gender Development Gap: Rethinking Strategies to Achieve MDGs

Magu, Stephen M.

Pages: 111 –123

[Progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa is mostly marginal; the UN 2012 report found that by 2015, sub-Saharan African countries will not have progressed sufficiently to reach the target if current trends do not change. Goals most closely associated with...
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Chapter 9Addressing Poverty and Hunger Through Gender Equality: A Case Study of Eritrea

Tesfamariam, Yordanos

Pages: 125 –137

[Female-headed households (which make up 30 % of Eritrean farmers) are affected differently by climate change than male-headed households. Their responses to the impact of climate change also differ, especially when it comes to safeguarding their food sovereignty and livelihoods. Farm women are...
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Chapter 10(Ad)dressing Sexual Reproductive Health Issues and Its Determinants in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa: Evidence from a Situational Analysis of Millennium Development Goals Indicators

Khalema, Nene Ernest; Ndinda, Catherine; Makiwane, Monde Blessing; Vawda, Mohamed; Bhembe, Lungelo V.; Mahapa, Nteboheleng; Zondo, Ndoda

Pages: 139 –158

[This chapter presents a synthesis of the progress on key health-related MDGs in two South African provinces of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and the Eastern Cape (EC) focusing on sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) indicators. Utilizing a mixed method approach that included a desk review of...

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