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This book is based on a three-year international comparative study on poverty reduction and sustainability strategies . It provides evidence from twenty case studies around the world on the power and potential of community and higher education based scholars and activists working together in the co-creation of transformative knowledge. Opening with a theoretical overview of knowledge, democracy and action, the book is followed by analytical chapters providing lessons learned and capacity building, and on the theory and practice of community university research partnerships. It also includes lessons on models of evaluation, approaches to measuring the impact and an agenda for future research and policy recommendations. The book overviews the concept of engaged scholarship and then moves to focus on community-university research partnerships. It is based on a global empirical study of the role of community-university research partnerships within the context of poverty alleviation, the creation of sustainable societies and, broadly speaking, the Millennium Development Goals. The book frames the contribution of community-university research partnerships within a larger knowledge democracy framework, linking this practice to other spaces of knowledge democracy. These include the open access movement, new acceptance of the methods of community-based and participatory research and the call for cognitive justice or the need for epistemologies of the Global South. It takes a particular look at the variety of structures that have been created in the various universities and civil society research organizations to facilitate and enhance research partnerships.
Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Dainius Pūras, lamented the fact that mental health continues to be one of the most neglected and underfunded development issues ( Pūras, 2017 : 10, 19). Although mental health was excluded from the Millennium Development Goals, the UN’s 2030 Agenda requires states to ‘ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’ through Sustainable
-state actors towards innocent civilians is increasing, along with deliberate targeting of humanitarian workers, operations and inventory used to help people trapped in conflict ( Fouad et al. , 2017 ; Stoddard et al. , 2017 ; Stoddard et al. , 2018 ). Amplifying this instability has been the slow progress towards changing the vulnerability of people living in many countries. Notwithstanding advances made in Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, an estimated 736
. ( 2015 ) South Sudan Recovery Fund Round 3: UN Joint Stabilization Programmes . https://info.undp.org/docs/pdc/Documents/SSD/SSRF%20OUTCOME%20EVALUATION%20REPORT.pdf UN Women . ( 2012 ) Sudan and South Sudan Programme Evaluation Report: Building Capacities for Gender Equality in Governance and Protection of Women’s Rights in Sudan 2008–2011 . http://gate.unwomen.org/EvaluationDocument/Download?evaluationDocumentID=3574 UNDP , Millennium Development Goal Fund. ( 2012 ) Sustained Peace for Development: Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building in
Millennium Development Goals. Belli and Foditsch have written extensively about the modelling of a universal principle-based network neutrality law, an experiment conducted through the Dynamic Coalition on Net Neutrality in the UN Internet Governance Forum led by Belli since 2012: it seems possible to distil some essential elements from
reproduced. Moreover, this limited historical analysis also reveals the largely unreflexive nature of the discipline, partly engendered through the necessity to achieve development goals and targets such as project outputs and, at a larger scale, the Millennium Development Goals. The problematic way in which the field writes its history and the kinds of relations this conceals is compounded by how we understand and imagine ‘time’; a notion that is central to development based as it is on ideas of progress and change. Development policies, practices and interventions
advocates of community–university research partnerships in that country. First, at the most fundamental level, the university sector in Ghana is badly underfunded by its national government. Second, government does not see value in directly including a role for the universities in its development and poverty-reduction strategies, such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers aimed at achieving targets towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). ‘One needs to answer the question whether this is a reflection of the failure of the institutions themselves to demonstrate
, Switzerland Publication of Sport for Development and Peace: Towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace, 2003 ) 2004 UN establishment of SDPIWG 2005 Designation of International Year of
contributions to the literature. First, its focus is on community–university research partnerships rather than the broader community–university engagement. Second, it is based on a global empirical study of the role of community–university research partnerships within the context of poverty alleviation, the creation of sustainable societies and, broadly speaking, the Millennium Development Goals. Third, we have gone further to frame the contribution of community–university research partnerships within a larger knowledge democracy framework, linking this practice to other
fraternity is conspicuously ignorant of the processes underlying even its most celebrated interventions, and has little knowledge of how these impacts are influenced by scale and (different types of) context (see Woolcock 2009). 39 These pressures, solidly reinforced by campaigns such as the Millennium Development Goals, manifest themselves in calls to ‘scale up’ and ‘replicate’ putatively successful interventions that have apparently been effective, often in the short-term and before further unintended consequences become visible and usually in one particular national