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01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev.)

 

Edition 01: 13 December, 2009.

Edition 02: 17 August, 2011.

Quarter 3.

 

 

SECTION C : THE MODEL.

 

Study points : 05 points out of 18

Minimum study time : 125 hours out of 504

 

The study points are awarded upon passing the consolidated exam  for  Section C : The Model.

 


 

Block 8 : Economic aspects.

 

                            [Study points 03 out of 18]

[Minimum study time: 85 hours out of 504]

 

The study points are awarded upon passing the consolidated exam  for  Section C : The Model.

 


 

Block 8 : Economic aspects.

 

Sect. 4 : Achievement of the Millennium Goals. [06 hours ] 

 

01. Quality of life of the inhabitants.  (02 hours)

02. On-going development. (02 hours ).

03. Summary of the results achieved. (01 hour )

 

Section 4 report:   (01 hour )

 


 

Sect. 4 : Achievement of the Millennium Goals. [06 hours ] 

 

01. Quality of life of the inhabitants.  ( At least 02 hours)

 

During the analysis of the Millennium goals in the second block of the course it was observed that the term «quality of life »  appears only once  in the  Plan for the Implementation  of the Millennium goals declared in Johannesburg.

 

Review the following slides on target 13 of the Millennium Goals:

 

Target 13  : Address the needs of the least developed countries.

Target 13 :  Continued.

 

Refer to the analyses of Goal  8 Targets 12 - 18 : Develop a global partnership for development in the second section Relate the Millennium Goals to the services set out in section 2 of the first block,   which is part of the second block  of the course.

 

Read your report on Section 2 of  block 2 of the course.

 

Read your report on Section 2 of  block 1 which is about the services at the basis of a good quality of life.

 

1. Opinion.

 

On one page make a comparison between the support provided to the private banking sector during the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the goal to reduce poverty expressed in the Millennium Development Goals.

 

An analysis was made in Section 8: Millennium Goals of the fifth block How block 4 structures solve specific problems on progress made in achieving the Millennium Goals  The analysis was based on the United Nations report for 2009 on the Millennium Development Goals for 2009.

 

Read your report on section 8 of the fifth block.

 

2. Opinion.

 

Write a one-page article for a local newspaper setting out the risk of gaps between the Millennium goals, progress made towards their achievement, and the quality of life in the people in your chosen area.

 

3. Opinion.

 

In part the first steps of  section 1 method of the sixth block on  the Model  an analysis was made of the problems brought up by local populations concerning the five basic conditions for the execution of integrated development projects. One of the conditions was the willingness of the populations to make monthly payments into the Cooperative Local Development Fund. On one page,  taking the three-tiered social security structures  described in section 2 the social structures of block 4 the structures to be created  into account,  make a  «reasoned »  calculation of the monthly contributions the  populations in your chosen area would be able to pay.

 

4. Opinion.

 

On one page make a short commentary on the present impact of the Millennium goals and their execution on the quality of life  of  the populations in your chosen project area.

 



 Eighth Section 4 : Achievement of the Millennium Goals.

 Eighth block : economic aspects.  


  Main index  for the Diploma in Integrated  Development  (Dip. Int. Dev.)

 List of key words.

 List of references.

  Course chart.

 Technical aspects.

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"Money is not the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them."

Gesell, Silvio, The Natural Economic Order, revised English edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228.

 

“Poverty is created scarcity”

Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7th September 2005.

 


 

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