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Millennium Development Goal 1 has three targets:
Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger. Click To Tweet Pioneering efforts have led to profound achievements including:
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There is only one target for millennium development goal 2:
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN claims that nearly 57 million primary school age children are not able to attend school; 80 percent of whom live in rural areas. This has made the urban-rural knowledge and education divide today’s main obstacle to achieving global primary education by 2015. Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education for boys and girls. Click To Tweet The fact that rural children are highly affected by hunger and malnutrition has also seriously affected their learning ability. As such, food security and primary education should be addressed at the same time to give rural people the capacity to feed themselves and overcome hunger, poverty, and illiteracy. Social protection brings together all efforts for education and food security towards increased effectiveness. (more…)
There was only one target under millennium development goal 3:
Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote gender equality in all levels of education and empower women. Click To Tweet Some of the achievements of MDG 3 include:
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The Millennium Development Goal 4 has only one target:
Undernutrition is estimated to contribute to more than 33 percent of all deaths in children under five. So, efforts to improve household food security and nutrition have increased the chances of children growing to adulthood. Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds. Click To Tweet In this regard, FAO programmes, in combination with efforts by the Renewed Efforts against Child Hunger and Undernutrition (REACH) and WHO, WFP, and UNICEF have helped communities and households secure access to nutritionally adequate diets to minimise child undernutrition. Efforts include the provision of training materials, community-centred initiatives, training programmes for local and national staff, nutrition education programmes, and promotion of forums on community nutrition and household food security. Improving complementary feeding for babies, or giving foods in addition to breast milk, has led to significant reduction in the child mortality caused by undernutrition. (more…) Hunger and malnutrition were observed to increase the incidence and fatality rate of the conditions that contribute to nearly 80 percent of maternal deaths. In this regard, millennium development goal 5 has two targets:
MDG 5: Reduce maternal mortality by 75 percent & achieve universal access to reproductive health. Click To Tweet Improving maternal health is critical to saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of women who die due to complication from pregnancy and childbirth each year. Over 90 percent of these deaths could be prevented if women in developing regions had access to sufficient diets, basic literacy and health services, and safe water and sanitation facilities during pregnancy and childbirth. Some of the achievements of MDG 5 include:
(more…) HIV, malaria, and other diseases directly and indirectly impact food and nutrition security, rural development, and agricultural productivity. At the same time, malnutrition and food and nutrition insecurity can increase vulnerability to disease. In this regard, Millennium Development Goal 6 has three targets:
Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other major diseases. Click To Tweet Some of the achievements of MDG 6 include:
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It is critical that the natural resources base and ecosystems are managed sustainably to ensure that people’s food requirements and other social, economic, and environmental needs are sufficiently met. Climate change, conflicts over access to resources, and increased water scarcity all pose a threat to not only environmental sustainability but also food security. As such, millennium development goal 7 has 4 targets:
MDG 7: It is critical that the natural resources base and ecosystems are managed sustainably . Click To Tweet An estimated 30 percent of total land area on the planet is forested. An estimated 1.6 billion people depend on forests directly for their livelihoods, plus they provide other benefits enjoyed by all, including clean air and water. Forests also provide a habitat for millions of plants and animals, as well as catchment for 75 percent of the world’s fresh water. They help in the adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, though they are under threat from deforestation. Hunger and poverty tend to compel the disadvantaged to over-exploit resources on which their livelihoods depend. Policies, institutions, and strategies for protecting, conserving, and enhancing natural resources should be strengthened to deliver an enabling environment, and be based on the specific resource challenged faced in a given location. Some of the achievements of MDG 7 include:
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Millennium development goal 8 has 6 targets that seek to develop global partnership for development, namely:
MDG 8: Develop a global partnership for development & avail benefits of new technologies Click To Tweet Some of the achievements of MDG 8 include:
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But how do you tell which change is good? The word ‘development’ is widely used to refer to a specified state of advancement or growth. It could also be used to describe a new and advanced idea or product; or an event that constitutes a new stage under changing circumstances. Generally, the term development describes good change. But how do you tell which change is good? In this regard, researchers explain three ways that the term ‘development’ is used: Here, the term is used to describe how desirable a society or a region is, possibly with regard to what it can become This refers to social change that occurs over extended periods of time due to inevitable processes. For instance, it is widely believed that both communism and capitalism are an inevitable outcome of progress. This refers to deliberate action to change things for the better, as with providing aid to alleviate hunger All of these are definitions of development, but when it comes to distinguishing between nations that are more developed than others, or when describing some other international aspect, usually more meaning is implied in the word.
In terms of wealth, it is perhaps easier to identify countries that are richer or poorer than others. However, the typical indicators of wealth only reflect the amount of resources available to a specific
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At the start of the century, all 189 United Nations Member States unanimously agreed to forge a commitment via the Millennium Declaration to assist the poorest to achieve better living standards by the year 2015. In most developing countries, the MDGs have formed a critical element of government policy-decisions for performance benchmarking. Although Africa as a whole has experienced remarkable change since the goals were set in 2000, sub-Saharan Africa is claimed to be the region that has witnessed the least MDG progress compared to other developing regions. Although considerable achievements have been made on many of the MDG targets universally, progress has not been uniform across the developing regions and nations, leaving substantial gaps. Millions of people are lagging behind, especially the poor and disadvantaged due to their age, sex, ethnicity, disability, and geographic location. (more…) What is the main purpose of the Millennium Development Goals?The Millennium Development Goals set timebound targets, by which progress in reducing income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and exclusion — while promoting gender equality, health, education and environmental sustainability — can be measured.
Why did the UN set up the millennium and sustainable development goals?The SDGs, also known as Global Goals, build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and aim to go further to end all forms of poverty. The new Goals are unique in that they call for action by all countries, poor, rich and middle-income to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.
What are the seven goals of the eight Millennium Goals of UN?Target 7. C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The world has met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water, five years ahead of schedule.
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