UN Millennium Project MDG Needs Assessments: Country Studies of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda.

By Jan Vandemoortele & Rathin Roy,
Poverty Group, UNDP

by Selim Jahan, Poverty Group UNDP

By Sanjay Reddy and Antoine Heuty.
Included here is the report in English and French, and a PowerPoint presentation.

By Jan Vandermoortele, Poverty Group UNDP

By Rathin Roy and Antoine Heuty, Poverty Group UNDP

"Escenarios de Inversión Social al 2015 para Alcanzar los Objetivos en Salud, Educacion y Saneamiento y Agua" This report aims at estimating the financial costs of reaching the Milenium Development Goals and the National Development Goals in the areas of Health, Water and Education.

The Prediction Model report, for which Peru was a pilot.

This Summary Report of 5 MDG costing studies was carried out by national researchers in each of the 5 countries. These studies were commissioned by UNDP in preparation for a special panel held during the Financing for Development Conference and are part of UNDP's championing of the MDGs. The introduction to the report will shed additional light into the scope and purpose of this combined summary.

This paper provides an overview of Uganda's key national development targets and strategies, relates the targets and strategies to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and assesses the feasibility and the costs of achieving the MDGs via the strategic sector plans that are aimed at realizing specific goals in the country's Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP). On the basis of the progress made to date towards achieving the national economic and human development goals, the paper concludes that according to the base case scenario, Uganda can attain the international income poverty targets.

TORs used for UNDP Country Studies

A reference note for those involved in costing exercises. This reference note was derived from contributions to an eDiscussion held on MDGNet. Issues addressed include the decision to undertake a costing exercise, costing Goal 1, costing vs financing the MDGs, global comparability vs local specificity, synergies and spillovers between the goals, marginal and average costs, and absorptive capacity.

Link to the queries and discussions held on MDGNet concerning costing. Includes requests for TORs, sharing comparative experiences, and discussing costing women's work.

Using two different approaches, the World Bank estimates that, if countries improve their policies and institutions, the additional foreign aid required to reach the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 is between $40-$60 billion a year. This estimate is consistent with other agencies' estimates of the costs of achieving individual goals, such as those for education and health. By itself, this additional aid will not be sufficient to attain the goals, as many countries will have to reform their policies and improve service delivery to make the additional spending effective.

Includes Purchasing Power Parity conversion rates (from local currency units to PPP$). An Overview of Data Requirements and an illustration of Methodology for Estimating Recurrent Cost of EFA

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