Local Authority-Driven Interventions to Improve the Lives of Slum Dwellers
Published in the UN Millennium Project’s 2005 Report, A Home in the City
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by world leaders at the U.N. Millennium Summit in September 2004 set targets to be achieved by 2015 in order to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and gender discrimination. The United Nations Secretary General and the Administrator of the UNDP launched the Millennium Project directed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General to recommend strategies to achieve the MDGs. Ten task forces led the projects research effort focusing on identifying priority actions and the institutional and financial measures required for their implementation.
Mona Serageldin served on Task Force 8 to address improving the lives of 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020. I2UD staff worked with her on the review and documentation of 50 best practices worldwide. The paper highlighted the key features underlying their success namely partnerships, strategic priorities, multi-sectoral action plans and focused programs targeting vulnerable populations and marginalized areas.
Local Authority-Driven Interventions to Improve the Lives of Slum Dwellers, Global Urban Development Magazine. Abridged version Task Force 8 report. Mona Serageldin, Elda Solloso, Luis Valenzuela. The report was released in the March 2006 volume of Global Urban Development Magazine. Download Report
Millennium Project Task Force 8 Interim Report on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers Download Report
Local Authority-Driven Interventions to Improve the Lives of Slum Dwellers. Background paper for Millennium Project Task Force 8. Mona Serageldin, Elda Solloso, Luis Valenzuela. October 2003. Download Report
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by world leaders at the U.N. Millennium Summit in September 2004 set targets to be achieved by 2015 in order to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and gender discrimination. The United Nations Secretary General and the Administrator of the UNDP launched the Millennium Project directed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General to recommend strategies to achieve the MDGs. Ten task forces led the projects research effort focusing on identifying priority actions and the institutional and financial measures required for their implementation.
Mona Serageldin served on Task Force 8 to address improving the lives of 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020. I2UD staff worked with her on the review and documentation of 50 best practices worldwide. The paper highlighted the key features underlying their success namely partnerships, strategic priorities, multi-sectoral action plans and focused programs targeting vulnerable populations and marginalized areas.
Local Authority-Driven Interventions to Improve the Lives of Slum Dwellers, Global Urban Development Magazine. Abridged version Task Force 8 report. Mona Serageldin, Elda Solloso, Luis Valenzuela. The report was released in the March 2006 volume of Global Urban Development Magazine. Download Report
Millennium Project Task Force 8 Interim Report on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers Download Report
Local Authority-Driven Interventions to Improve the Lives of Slum Dwellers. Background paper for Millennium Project Task Force 8. Mona Serageldin, Elda Solloso, Luis Valenzuela. October 2003. Download Report
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