Fayyaz Baqqir - Better Spending for Localizing Global Sustainable Development Goals: Examples from the Field

Better Spending for Localizing Global Sustainable Development Goals

This book centres around an intense debate among donors, policymakers, development practitioners, and academics on the efficacy of aid in eradicating poverty while promoting human development.

It seeks to fill the gap in present literature by presenting stories of better spending through implementing Sustainable Development Goals and addressing Agenda 2030 via indigenization of global development goals with initiatives at local and national levels. The book adopts an innovative approach to dealing with aid effectiveness by highlighting the relevance of better spending, rather than excessive spending. It does so with real-life examples of interventions made in the Global South to realize the vision of thinking globally and acting locally. These case studies speak to the significance of communities role in shouldering responsibility for planning, financing, operating, and maintaining local developmental initiatives. The examples also demonstrate how aid serves its purpose when used as an investment in communities and enterprising individuals, in order to realize the strategic impact of giving and build a local receiving mechanism for indigenizing and achieving global development goals.

The book references cases of better spending by governments, philanthropists, and civil society organizations (CSOs) from across Asia, Africa, and Latin America on a range of issues and will, thus, be of interest to development practitioners, policymakers, donors, philanthropists, civil society organizations, and academics and students of international development studies.

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 UNDPs 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, Canadas former ODA agency, notably as head of mission in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Afghanistan and as Counselor 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.

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Better Spending for Localizing Global Sustainable Development Goals

Examples From the Field

Edited by Fayyaz Baqir, Nipa Banerjee and Sanni Yaya

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Dedicated to young minds striving to beat scarcity in the age of abundance

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2.1 Identifying and prioritizing development operations

4.1 First Dialogue Sherqila (1982)

4.2 RGMVP Womens Group

4.3 Addressing 17th Annual Session of Sustainable Development at UN General Assembly (2009)

6.1 Nazir Ahmad Wattoo (second from left) and Dr. Shujaat Ali, provincial secretary (third from left) launching the Bhalwal programme

10.1 Comparison in the joint distribution of deprivations in communities A and B

10.2 Deprivations in each indicator

10.3 Contribution of indicators to the PAMPI

10.4 Households deprivation in X% or more of the weighted indicators

10.5 Proportion of poor households across different indicators

10.6 Percentage contribution to PAMPI

11.1 Proportion of rural population with access to improved water supply in SSA

11.2 Proportion of urban population with access to improved water supply in SSA

11.3 Proportion of rural population with access to improved sanitation in SSA

11.4 Proportion of urban population with access to improved sanitation in SSA

11.5 Ratio of ODA disbursements for water and sanitation to total ODA

11.6 Commitments and disbursements to water and sanitation in SSA

11.7 Share of total gross ODA disbursement to water and sanitation in SSA (20022017) by project typology

11.8 Trend of gross ODA disbursement to water and sanitation in SSA over the period of 20022017, by project typology

11.9 Household data, SDG regions, subSaharan Africa, service levels

11.10 Household data, Democratic Republic of the Congo, service levels

11.11 Proportion of rural and urban population with access to improved water supply and sanitation in the DRC

12.1 Cereal food aid shipment and cereal production in Ethiopia between 1993 to 2015

12.2 Cereal food aid shipment as a percentage of cereal production in Ethiopia