Knowledge from the margins
A main reason behind the ongoing political unrest in Egypt is that the citizens, especially those living in poverty, typically fail to find an institutional channel that takes their voices into the planning and decision making process. The Ground Level Panel (GLP) was not only rich in terms of the …
This response is based on in-depth participatory research with people living in poverty and marginalisation, from 18 organisations working in over 30 countries worldwide, which together form the Participate initiative’s Participatory Research Group network. The research has included people with disabilities, older people, people with mental health issues, urban dwellers, people living …
At the opening of the Advancing the Post‐2015 Sustainable Development Agenda conference in Bonn last month, Horst Kolher noted wryly in his opening remarks that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon asked the High Level Panel (HLP) to be ‘bold and practical’ in its recommendations for the post-2015 framework. So far, it would appear that many …