Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015
Posted by Paul Pronyk, Jeffrey Sachs & Prabhjot Singh | Oct 23, 2011
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As the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Centre for Global Health and Economic Development at The Earth Institute, I thought I might offer some reflections to this vigorous discussion around the optimal methods for evaluating the Millennium Villages project.
Posted by Paul Pronyk, John McArthur, Prabhjot Singh & Jeffrey Sachs | Oct 13, 2010
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Agriculture • Business Development • Education • Health • Infrastructure • Millennium Development Goals • Millennium Villages Project
To download this article as a PDF, please click HERE. The discussion around evaluating large-scale development projects is an important one. Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes offer a critique of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) and its research methods. Their paper misunderstands the MVP's aims and evaluation methods. We respond briefly here, to clarify some of those basic misunderstandings about the project's goals and approaches to evaluation. 1. Goals of the Millennium Villages Project The MVP is a ten-year project running through 2015, the deadline year for the Millennium Development . . . [more]
Posted by Paul Pronyk | Mar 24, 2010 | 0 Comments
Millennium Villages Project
Editor's Note: This post is a response to Michael Clemens' post on the Center for Global Development blog entitled "Why a Careful Evaluation of the Millennium Villages Is Not Optional" We would like to thank Michael for his comments on the evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project and to briefly respond. The need for careful evaluation and long term follow-up. We fully agree. The duration of the Millennium Villages Project is, in fact, 10 years, according to the 2015 MDG timeline. We are now completing the mid-point (end-of-third-year) review of the . . . [more]
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