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Abstract
This article begins by providing some context for the selection of targets and indicators chosen to measure Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, “improvement in maternal health,” considering why the broad vision of sexual and reproductive health and (reproductive) rights set out at international conferences in the 1990s was reduced to maternal health in the MDGs in 2001. We consider the intended and unintended consequences to the sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda based on the choices made with respect to the selection of the targets and indicators under MDG 5, and their conversion into national planning tools. Finally, we set out criteria for the selection of goals, targets, and indicators, which we believe should be applied to the post-2015 global development agenda-setting process.
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Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH, is a lecturer on global health and is Director of the Health Rights of Women and Children Program at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Yamin's 20-year career at the intersection of health, human rights, and development bridges academia and activism. She has published dozens of scholarly articles and various books relating to health and human rights, in both English and Spanish, and has received multiple distinctions for her work on maternal health and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Yamin regularly advises UN agencies on global health, human rights, and development issues, and she is at the forefront of the current post-2015 global development processes.
Vanessa M. Boulanger, MSc, is the Program Manager for the Health Rights of Women and Children Program at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.