Millennium Development GoalsMDGs

Salwa TobbalaMarch 26, 2011

What are the Millennium Development Goals?

UN declaration for the millennium Adopted by world leaders in the year

2000 to be achieved by 2015 framework for the international

community to work together towards a common goal

concrete, numerical benchmarks Ensuring that human development

reaches everyone, everywhere

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MDGs

* http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml

Eradicate extreme Poverty and Hunger

Achieve Universal Primary Education

Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Reduce Child Mortality

Improve Maternal Health

Combat HIV/AIDS , Malaria and other diseases

Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Develop a Global Partnership for Development

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8 MDGs*: - 21 quantifiable targets - 60 indicators

1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day

2. Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

3. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day

2. Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

3. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

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Achieve Universal Primary Education

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

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Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

4.1 Under-five mortality rate4.2 Infant mortality rate4.3 Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised

against measles

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Reduce Child Mortality

Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

5.1 Maternal mortality ratio5.2 Proportion of births attended by skilled

health personnel

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Improve Maternal Health

Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

6.1 HIV prevalence among population aged 15-24

years6.2 Condom use at last high-risk sex6.3 Proportion of population aged 15-24 years with

comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS6.4 Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school

attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years

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Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss

Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

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Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Environmental issues as climate change, ozone depletion, and others are global in nature

UNDP promote sustainable development through Global Environment Facility (GEF)

GEF is the largest fund for protecting the environment, UNDP (one of the implementing agencies) with UNEP, World Bank, and others

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Ensure Environmental Sustainability

GEF

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Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system

Address the special needs of the least developed countries

Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States

Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures

In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

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Develop a Global Partnership for

Development (cont.)

Commoners demonstrate sincere interest in taking active roles towards shaping their future when provided with: fair, suitable and adequate means to do so.

Mainstream MDGs in activities of women empowerment sessions and men community meeting in a simple and down to earth approach that touched the daily lives of both men and women;

Develop participatory district plans in Minya ( Samalout ) and Assiut (Abnoub , Sedfa and Mnfalout )

Needs and concerns of the community were identified and embeded in the district and governorate plans.

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Save The Children/USAIDAchieving the Millennium Development Goals in Low Human Development Index Districts

Project

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger There is a clear concentration of the poor in

the rural Upper Egypt region

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education The Population Census 2006 report indicated:

% of population aged 6-17 years , never attended school highest in Upper Egypt

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Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Upper Egypt’s governorates still suffer from a wide

gap of enrolment between boys and girls. Wider gender gaps detected at the level of the

other two streams (technical and Al Azhar Secondary)

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality Rural Upper Egypt governorate : poorest

developmental indicators compared to the rest of the country

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Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health High % of mothers who experience early marriages and

have their first birth at age less than 18 years The highest rates in Upper Egypt, especially rural areas,

reaching 54.3%

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Major Diseases

HIV prevalence is estimated to be less than 1% in the general population

Egypt succeeded in controlling malaria, while tuberculosis is regressing (from 70% in 1982 to 24% in 2006)

However, hepatitis B (2% - 8% nationally) and hepatitis C (8.8% nationally) constitute major health threats

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Goal 7: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability Egypt faces many and diversified challenges towards achieving this

goal including:  Inadequate environmental education and awareness activities, little

impact on increasing environment-friendly behavior among citizens

Expansion in economic activities, especially industrial, without compliance to ‘clean development’ mechanisms

Low standard of living in the rural areas placing barriers to the expansion of water and sanitation services

Weakness in the implementation and enforcement of environmental law and policies

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* Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Egypt's Official Development Assistance (ODA) disbursement has seen a rise of 5% in the period between 2001 and 2007

The government’s Sixth Five Year Plan (2007- 2012) has set a number of policies: enhance export performance and competitiveness

Good performance of exports was reflected in the decline of the

ratio of debt interests to exports of goods and services

Still much needed to achieve and sustain a global partnership :more concentration on efficient budget resource allocation to

reduce the public debt

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MDG 2010–2015Strategies & Policies for MDG

acceleration1. Supporting country-led development and effective governance;

2. Fostering inclusive and pro-poor economic growth;

3. increasing public investments in education, health, water, sanitation and infrastructure;

4. scaling up targeted interventions, including social protection and employment programmes;

5. investing in expanded opportunities for women and girls and advancing their economic, legal and political empowerment;

6. enhancing access to energy and promoting low-carbon development;

7. accelerating domestic resource mobilization to finance the MDGs;

8. ensuring the global partnership creates an enabling environment for the MDGs, particularly delivering on ODA commitments.

Meeting MDG commitment is not only a moral imperative, but reflects a mutual

interest to live in a stable and prosperous world*

THANK YOU* http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml