The new context of post economic crisis and climate adaptation present an opportunity to rethink progress and indicators as the Sarkozy Commission and the OECD-convened Measuring Progress Project have noted recently.

Although the core concerns of the MDGs - nutrition, health, education - are likely to remain valid after 2015 in some way how best can their progress be assessed?   The Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction team's research seeks to explore what indicators and institutional architecture are fit-for-purpose looking ahead to 2015 and what kind of global processes of deliberation are needed to build political momentum for 2015?