Understanding how poverty and inequalities impact on children is the major goal of Young Lives, a unique longitudinal, mixed-methods study. Two cohorts totaling 12,000 children are being tracked since 2001, growing-up in Ethiopia, the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) India, Peru and Vietnam. Earlier versions of this paper were prepared as Young Lives contribution to a UNICEF/UN Women consultation o...

Despite the shortcomings of the Millennium Development Goals as a development tool, they have proven to be an important communication tool that is worth preserving after 2015. Inclusion of important themes of the Millennium Declaration and elements of the capability theory is essential in a post-2015 system, as well as putting human rights and gender principles at its core. Process orientation ...

On September 2014, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will evaluate the proposals of the UN Open Working Group (OWG) 1 for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the Post-2015 Agenda, which also includes a health goal. The final version of these goals will be approved at the 2015 UNGA. The document is the convergence of several processes implemented by the United Nations General Sec...

In 2013, the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) will be hosted by the Japanese government. TICAD, which has been held every five years, has played a catalytic role in African policy dialogue and a leading role in promoting the human security approach (HSA). We review the development of the HSA in the TICAD dialogue on health agendas and recommend TICAD's role ...

726 www.thelancet.com Vol 381 March 2, 2013 Commenting on the UN General Assembly resolution of December, 2012, Jeanette Vega off ers a rationale for universal health coverage to become a unifying central health goal in the post-2015 Millennium Development Goal framework. We concur with her arguments provided universal health coverage becomes a central health goal rather than the central health...

www.thelancet.com Vol 383 May 24, 2014 1803 obstetric surgical and anaesthetic care, including for caesarean section and blood product services. Although excluded from the Investment Framework proposed by Stenberg and colleagues, these are evidence-based interventions to reduce maternal mortality in high-income and in lowincome and middle-income countries (LMICs). They have been included in pre...

The world has made a great deal of progress through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to improve the health and well-being of people around the globe, but there remains a long way to go. Here we provide reflections on Rwanda's experience in working to meet the health-related targets of the MDGs. This experience has informed our proposal of five guiding principles that may be useful for co...

BACKGROUND The Millennium Development Goals have guided development co-operation in the 15 years up to 2015, achieving some significant progress in the priorities on which they focused. As the framework for the post-2015 development agenda is negotiated, this article reviews the evidence for the place of mental health in broader development issues that have already been outlined in the run-up t...

Editorials 719 With the approach of the September 2013 meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the post-2015 Development Agenda, the health and intersectoral development goals have become the subject of considerable debate. Little of this debate has to do, however, with how the " right to the highest attainable standard of health " applies to non-nationals – i.e. people who live in a ...