Our Perspective

• It’s time to accelerate MDG attainment in Kenya

  26 Apr 2013

  
  The urgent need to address poverty around the world and the opportunity provided by the MDGs have made them the rallying call of a global partnership and the cornerstone of international and regional development policy.

  The urgent need to address poverty around the world and the opportunity provided by the MDGs have made them the rallying call of a global partnership and the cornerstone of international and regional development policy. For the first time in history, a diverse range of players across the globe agreed on a common platform of priorities for addressing the many faces of extreme poverty, hunger, joblessness, diseases, lack of shelter, gender in-equality and environmental challenges. With less than 2 years before the MDGs target date of 2015, development practitioners, including agencies of the UN are participating in consultations aimed at defining the contours of the post-2015 development agenda. The African continent continues to make steady progress on most of the MDGs. Even though it is unlikely to achieve all the targets by 2015, the rate of progress on several indicators including primary school enrolment, gender parity in school enrolment, lower HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and the share of women in non-agricultural wage employment is accelerating.  Strengthening attainment of off the target MDGs will require sustained policy adjustment at a measured pace that depends heavily on a country’s individual circumstances. In this case, pro-poor policies are needed to ensure that all members of Read More

• End of the Year Message From Helen Clark

  31 Dec 2012

  Dear Colleagues,   I wish you and your families the very best for these holidays. Thank you all for your dedication and hard work through this tumultuous year.   Happy holidays,   Helen Clark UNDP Administrator Read More

• Digital Technology can help solve Africa’s Development challenges

  20 Sep 2012

  

  Governance and political participation In the current digital era, political institutions, activities and relationships are increasingly mediated and shaped by the technologies of information and communication. This includes interaction between political institutions and players like political parties, political aspirants and the voters. The digital platforms such as twitter, Facebook and YouTube have provided political players a chance to share their messages and policies with their social media followers. This has enhanced political public participation and policy change. These online tools have influenced governments and democratic processes as witnessed in the Arab World where the internet was used as a means of rallying crowds to demand certain freedoms from their governments and leaders. We have also seen the massive impact of social media in elections campaign management in Europe, America and now increasingly in Africa.  We can therefore not ignore the role of social media in governance and leadership.    Increasing participation on democratic process The internet and social platforms have the ability to increase young voters’ participation during elections. The new media technologies can assist re-invigorate political campaigns and rallying the youth who constitute 70% of Kenya’s population and active in these platforms to participate in the election processes. The digital platform Read More

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