Alicia Ely Yamin Speaks at UN General Assembly Side Event on the Power of Numbers
![Alicia Yamin, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Gita Sen discuss MDG targets and the road ahead towards defining achievable indicators for the Post-2015 agenda.](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2013/10/UNGA-AY-FXB-561x412.png)
Alicia Ely Yamin, Director of the FXB Center’s Health Rights of Women and Children Program, presented the findings of the Power of Numbers project, conducted in collaboration with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr of the New School for Social Research, at a side event of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 25, 2013. The project aims to shift the focus of the debate on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) – which until now has centered on whether the MDGs could be achieved – to a critical examination of the ways in which the target numbers chosen have affected global and national policy priorities and discourse. The panel discussion, featuring Yamin, Fukuda-Parr, and Gita Sen, Professor at the Indian Institute of Management’s Centre for Public Policy, was organized by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Sweden and co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Colombia and Sweden to the UN.
Photo credit: Alicia Ely Yamin