Poor give proposals for a global development agenda
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Posted by UNSDN on July 11, 2013 Poor give proposals for a global development agendaEmerging from a sustainable development discourse saturated by “experts”, “eminent persons”, and professionals, the knowledge of people living in extreme poverty, based on lived reality, is crucial to the debate. The International Movement ATD Fourth World organized a two-day seminar, with participants who experience daily hardship, to demonstrate that those who have lived extreme poverty are best equipped to end it. Present at the seminar were also Amina Mohammed, Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning; Olav Kjorven, Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations Development Programme; as well as academics from Oxford University, UK, and practitioners in the field. Knowledge from Experience: Building the Post-2015 Agenda with People Living in Extreme Povertyis the conclusion to ATD Fourth World’s 18 month participatory research-based evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals. This event embodied the organization’s participatory method while serving as the opportunity to release the project’s findings. The recommendations indicate a goal and a process at the same time: 1. Leave no one behind. Eliminate stigmatization and discrimination based on gender, social origin or poverty. Reach out to the most impoverished population groups. Foster participatory development and service provision. SOURCE: Social Watch |
