Human Development and the Millennium Development Goals

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Human Development and the Millennium Development Goals

Type: Virtual

Language: Spanish

Level Education: Undergraduate/Graduate

Duration: 12 weeks

Presentation

In September 2000, 189 United Nations member states signed the United Nations Millennium Declaration and agreed to be united in a world effort to reach strategic development goals. One year later at the 56th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, the General Secretary presented 8 objectives, 18 goals and 48 indicators as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and announced that these targets were to be reached by 2015.

Since the launch of the MDGs there has been some concern that they represent a minimal effort from the signatory countries. This course seeks to reflect on the relationship between HD and the MDGs, through the analysis of key concepts within HD and individual regional contexts and provides practical tools to help reach them.

Course Structure

The course is structured to be completed in 12 weeks and this includes 5 subject topics and 2 weeks for course introduction and closing. The introduction includes a course summary, and the closing unit invites participants to assess the course according to the below structure:

Unit 0	Introduction to the Virtual School System, the course and its context: Presentation and introduction to the School, course and classmates Understanding and using the virtual classroom Understanding and organization of learning resources
Unit 1	Conceptualising Human Development What “human development” means What human development is not How the concept was originated, and why Main differences from other approaches to development How has it evolved since the early 1990s to become a paradigm Main criticisms
Unit 2	How are the MDGs and HD related? Relations between MDG and HD How MDGs are related to functioning and capability
Unit 3	Human Development, Millennium Development Goals and Poverty The different approaches of poverty Measurement of poverty Human poverty The MDGs as a poverty alleviation strategy
Unit 4	Criticisms and the current state within Latin America Main criticisms of the MDGs Advances and challenges in the region Effects of the economic crisis on the MDGs Strategies to reach MDGs and implementation within the region
Unit 5	Tools and public policies to achieve the MDGs UNDP: Localising MDGs Institutional arrangements Planning tools Monitoring tools Financial tools
Closing Unit	Evaluation