The right to live on earth
On all continents, people and communities affected by extreme poverty fight every day to be able to live amongst other people, despite being constantly chased away.
Evaluating the MDGs with people in extreme poverty: a method that brings results
The final seminar for the MDGs evaluation project with people living in extreme poverty will take place in New York in June 2013. Proposals for the post-2015 development agenda, written by people in extreme poverty, academics and practioners, will be presented to United Nations representatives. Xavier Godinot, project manager, explain how working in partnership with people in poverty is a fundamental element in order for a education for all to be an attainable goal, now and in the post-2015 (…)
Education in Burkina Faso – the importance of conciliating modern and traditional education
Editorial
Burkina Faso, known as the “Land of Upright People”, is often depicted by unfavourable statistics that do not demonstrate its strengths. It is nevertheless true that it is the second country world-wide, after Niger, with the highest school drop-out rate, according to UNICEF statistics of 2004. Enrolment rates have grown in the past ten years, from 40% to 79%, but the achievement rate remains low. Infrastructure is a problem, when even if 100,000 children succeed in obtaining (…)Education – analysis by people with an experience of poverty
Analysis
People with an experience of extreme poverty shared their views on how to reach education for all, at the Ouagadougou seminar on the evaluation of the MDGs, in March 2013.Need for community education
In this day and age, you cannot attain educational success alone. A parent cannot council his child on his own, it is necessary for others also to call on the child when mistakes are made, to give advice. When you put your child in school, you need to be like a student too. You mustn’t (…)
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Sustainable development
Sustainable development will only bear fruit if the future of the people living in the worst conditions is considered as a success criterion of all policies, whether in the Global North or South.
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Challenge 2015 is a monthly newsletter with updates on our evaluation project of the Millenium Development Goals
