1st Edition
Better Spending for Localizing Global Sustainable Development Goals Examples from the Field
List of tables
Foreword
List of contributors
PART I Citizens, state, and markets
1 Introduction and background: global goals, local action
FAYYAZ BAQIR
PART II Frameworks for better spending
2 Anatomy of an effective development operation: a finance minister considers whether to borrow from the World Bank
ANTHONY CHOLST
3 SDG tracking through SSC for better SDG spending
HASANUZZAMAN ZAMAN AND SYED SAJJADUR RAHMAN
PART III South Asian landscape: moving from patronage to participation
4 Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP): an Indian experience of rapid poverty reduction through women’s empowerment
SHOAIB SULTAN KHAN
5 An inspirational story: galvanizing local action for realizing global development goals: the story of BRAC making the 21st-century drive to eradicate extreme poverty at local levels
NIPA BANERJEE
6 Water management is water measurement
FAYYAZ BAQIR
7 Redefining and localizing development in Pakistan
FURQAN ASIF
8 Market-led development
SHAKEEL AHMAD
PART IV Resilient communities in fragile states: Central South Asia
9 Community-driven development as a mechanism for realizing global development goals: the National Solidarity Programme and Citizens’ Charter Afghanistan Program
NIPA BANERJEE
10 Multidimensional poverty measurement and aid efficiency: a case study from Afghanistan
ABDULLAH AL MAMUN AND SANNI YAYA
PART V Non-zero options for local development
11 Development aid and access to water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa
SANNI YAYA, OGOCHUKWU UDENIGWE, AND HELENA YEBOAH
12 From more spending to better spending: the case of food and nutrition security in Ethiopia
SANNI YAYA, NEVILLE SUH, AND RICHARD A NYIAWUNG
13 Don’t spend more, spend better: improving the social efficiency of water and sanitation services in Uruguay and South Africa
ADRIAN MURRAY AND SUSAN SPRONK
PART VI Global South in the Global North
14 Indigenous peoples in Canada – the case of Global South in the Global North
PART VII Social capital: the highest form of capital
15 Conclusion: can a single spark create a prairie fire?
FAYYAZ BAQIR
Appendices
Index
Biography
Fayyaz Baqir is a visiting scholar at the University of Ottawa. He served as Senior Advisor on civil society at the United Nations, and CEO of Trust for Voluntary Organizations. He received top contributors’ awards from UNDP’s Global Poverty Reduction Network.
Nipa Banerjee has a PhD from the University of Toronto in development studies and has served for over 40 years as an international development practitioner, policy analyst and advisor, and professor, at different periods of her career. Her experience includes 34 years with CIDA, Canada's former ODA agency, notably as head of mission in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Afghanistan and as Councelor Development representing CIDA in Bangladesh, Indonesia and India.
Sanni Yaya is Full Professor of economics and global health, and Director and Associate Dean of the School of International Development and Global Studies. His work focuses on a broad array of multidisciplinary topics in development and global health.
