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Development in the context of MDGs and Disability (Bratislava Conference, 14/15 May 2007)

Development in the context of MDGs and Disability (Bratislava Conference, 14/15 May 2007). 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues. Definitions of individual poverty. People living on less than 1 USD/day (MDGs) National ‚below the poverty line‘-population

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Development in the context of MDGs and Disability (Bratislava Conference, 14/15 May 2007)

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  1. Developmentin the context of MDGs and Disability(Bratislava Conference, 14/15 May 2007)

  2. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues Definitions of individual poverty • People living on less than 1 USD/day (MDGs) • National ‚below the poverty line‘-population • Health and Education indicators > child mortality and enrolment to primary education (HDI) > Economic and Social Situation of Individuals > What‘s about political and social environment?

  3. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues Definition from an Human Rights View • Adapting the definition of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities:Poverty is an evolving concept, and exclusion from development results from the interaction between persons living in poverty and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and active participation in society on an equal basis with others

  4. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues Assessment of poverty situation • Situation of the individual in all dimensions: economic, social, poltical, cultural, environmental, … situation • Situation at the local community level: forms of discrimination, segregation, participation, …

  5. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues Assessment of poverty situation • Situation at the level of politics: exclusion, access to (human) rights, political participation • Structural relations in place on local, regional, national and international level • > Own assessment!

  6. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues

  7. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues

  8. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues

  9. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues MDGs & Inclusion based development • To make the MDGs inclusive, it needs- Targets specifically addressing marginalised and exluded groups- Indicators showing the level of Inclusion of the marginalised and excluded groups

  10. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues MDGs & Inclusion based development • To achieve the MDGs, it needs- a wholistic concept of poverty to be the basis- a committment to pro-poor development (budgetting, creating access, …) - to stop the exclusion of socially marginalised groups, often being the poorest of the poor

  11. 1. Definitions 2. Concepts 3. Key Issues The success of Poverty Reduction Programmes can be measured on how far they have reached the most marginalised and excluded groups in society.

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