Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals

Technological Progress Towards Sustainable Development

Measuring Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals

• methods for strengthening routine TB surveillance; • ways to improve and standardize the analysis of surveillance data; • where surveys of infection and active disease have already been done, and should be done in future; • the comparative merits of surveys of infection and active disease (with reference to surveillance data); • how to set standards for carrying out prevalence surveys (of bot...

Assessing Progress towards Public Health, Human Rights, and International Development Goals Using Frontier Analysis

Indicators to measure progress towards achieving public health, human rights, and international development targets, such as 100% access to improved drinking water or zero maternal mortality ratio, generally focus on status (i.e., level of attainment or coverage) or trends in status (i.e., rates of change). However, these indicators do not account for different levels of development that countr...

Progress towards the millennium development goals in SA.

Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals 3: Assessing the Readiness of Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Background The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) availed opportunities for scaling up service coverage but called for stringent monitoring and evaluation (M&E;) focusing mainly on MDG related programs. The Sustainable Development Goals 3 (SDGs) and the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda present a broader scope and require more ...