Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect in Africa

   • Nene Ernest Khalema, Nathan Andrews, N’Dri T. Assié-Lumumba

   Pages 1-15

3. Are We Able to Lift the Downtrodden? The MDGs and Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Ghana

   • Patricia Serwaa Afrifa

   Pages 17-30

4. Urbanization and Poverty in Kinshasa: Thinking Beyond 2015 Millennium Development Goals

   • Clement Longondjo

   Pages 31-44

5. Women’s Access to Land and Economic Empowerment in Selected Nigerian Communities

   • Tayo O. George, Felicia O. Olokoyo, Evans S. Osabuohien, Uchenna Efobi, Ibukun Beecroft

   Pages 45-61

6. Trusting the Coalface: Public Trust in South African Local Government and the Millennium Development Goals

   • Steven Lawrence Gordon, Benjamin J. Roberts, Jarè Struwig

   Pages 63-80

7. Millennium Development in Retrospect: Higher Education and the Gender Factor in Africa’s Development Beyond 2015

   • N’Dri T. Assié-Lumumba

   Pages 81-98

8. Beyond Millennium Development Goals: Funding Quality Education Through Building Local Capacity: A Sample from Tanzania

   • Serena Koissaba

   Pages 99-109

9. African Gender Development Gap: Rethinking Strategies to Achieve MDGs

   • Stephen M. Magu

   Pages 111-123

10. Addressing Poverty and Hunger Through Gender Equality: A Case Study of Eritrea

    • Yordanos Tesfamariam

    Pages 125-137

11. (Ad)dressing Sexual Reproductive Health Issues and Its Determinants in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa: Evidence from a Situational Analysis of Millennium Development Goals Indicators

    • Nene Ernest Khalema, Catherine Ndinda, Monde Blessing Makiwane, Mohamed Vawda, Lungelo V. Bhembe, Nteboheleng Mahapa et al.

    Pages 139-158

12. Culture, Traditions and Maternal Health: A Community Approach Towards Improved Maternal Health in the Northern Uganda Districts of Gulu, Moroto and Kotido

    • Mary Ssonko Nabacwa, Jeremy Waiswa, Martin Kabanda, Olive Sentumbwe, Susan Anibaya

    Pages 159-178

13. Dimension of Childhood Development Within the Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Water-Related Characteristics in Reducing the Burden of Childhood Diseases in South Africa

    • Furzana Timol

    Pages 179-190

14. Civil Society Activism for the Prevention and Treatment of Non-communicable Diseases in South Africa: Implications for Policy and Practice

    • Catherine Ndinda, Charles Hongoro, Desire Chilwane, Zitha Mokomane

    Pages 191-207

15. Developing Global Partnership for Development: Chinese Investments in Africa and Impacts on Sustainable Development

    • Daouda Cissé

    Pages 209-227

16. Strengthening Democratic Political Leadership and Governance for Africa’s Development Beyond 2015: The Case of Uganda

    • Evelyn Namakula Mayanja

    Pages 229-246

17. Aid Effectiveness and Development Policies in Botswana: A Successful Story

    • Cristian Talesco

    Pages 247-263

18. African Women’s Political Participation: Strategies for Positively Impacting Sustainable Socio-economic Development

    • Stephen M. Magu

    Pages 265-279

19. From Rhetoric to Reality: Bridging the Gap Between Aspiration for Democracy and Governance Performance in Nigeria and South Africa

    • Patrick Oluwole Ojo

    Pages 281-293

20. Social Protection: An Alternative or Not for Africa’s Post-2015 Development Agenda Alternative?

    • Julie Drolet

    Pages 295-308

This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa’s development post-2015. It assesses the current state of the MDGs in Africa by outlining the successes, gaps and failures of the state goals, including lessons learned. A unique feature of the book is the exposition on post-MDG’s agenda for Africa’s development. Chapters on poverty, south-south partnership, aid, gender, empowerment, health as well as governance and development explore what feasible alternative lie ahead for Africa beyond the expiry date of the MDGs.  

• A comprehensive picture of the Millennium Development Goals
• Africa’s Development Beyond 2015
• Aid Effectiveness and Development Policies in Botswana
• Climate Change: Vulnerbility and Adaptation
• Envisioning a post 2015 development Agenda in Africa
• Funding Quality Education in Rural Central Tanzania
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect
• Post-MDG’s agenda for Africa’s development
• Reducing Extreme Poverty and Hunger
• The MDGs and Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Ghana
• The current state of the MDGs in Africa
• The impact of the Millennium Development Goals
• Urbanization and Poverty in Kinshasa

“It consists of an introduction, five parts in which it delves into some of the aspects of the policies aimed at fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals and a conclusion. … it presents many variables to consider when thinking, developing and implementing policies and programs with the aim of improving the living conditions of the population, respecting their own cultural identities and attempting to build a relationship which is friendly to the environment in which society develops.” (Alejandro Migueltorena, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 11, 2016)

• Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Nathan Andrews

• Dept of Human and Social Development, Human Sciences Research Council, Durban, South Africa

  Nene Ernest Khalema

• Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba

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