Millennium Development Goals

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What the world wants to achieve by 2015

I consider the Millennium Development Goals Project as one of the noblest quest undertaken by all UN Member nations. Eradicating poverty and creating the best treasure that we can give to the future generation. I believe that this is a very tedious task, more than half of the world's population live in poverty stricken countries or at least in developing countries. Even developing countries continue to rely on inputs coming from other countries which does not truly assure them of great economic prosperity. Though more nations continue to become richer richer nations also exist teetering in the brink of bankruptcy, and deficits.

So join me, an economics teacher, as we view every single goal that the world has placed upon the shoulders of highly industrialized nations, and all UN member states, this we must accomplish by 2015.

P.S. For now I am looking into several things, charities or organizations that can be featured below each working for each goal so for now sit back and read..

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The United Nations is spearheading the projects that will assure the world that we will all achieve the MDG's but is there really hope that we will all be able to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals?

Are the goals really attainable?

How functional can a person be before he is considered as functionally literate?

Will there be women who will be wiling to do what men do best?

The MDGs

or Millennium Development Goals

All contents were pulled from wikipedia and this mcampaign's playlist in youtube

Debates have been raging all over the UN quarters with regard to the attainability of the MDG. We can't expect a few heads of state to determine the future? So I'd expect you to share your views on the performance of your own country or the attainability of each MDG. Quite tedious but at least you have shared your view...and if you would you will be rewarded with a greater perspective of the MDG...

An Introduction

The FAQs

I think we all share the same questions and the same queries with regard to the Millennium Development Goals and they are summarized in the video. Watch and learn...
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The Eight Goals...

8 Goals, 1 World, No Excuses

Following this section each module will present one of the eight goals, their targets and their indicators. Below each goal will be one video discussing the goal above it. So have fun and listen. Think how you can contribute in your own little way in the attainment of the goals...

Goal 1:

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Target 1A: Halve the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day
1. Proportion of population below $1 per day (PPP values)
2. Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of poverty]
3. Share of poorest quintile in national consumption

Target 1B: Achieve Decent Employment for Women, Men, and Young People
1. Proportion of employed population below $1 per day (PPP values)
2. Proportion of family-based workers in employed population

Target 1C: Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
1. Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age
2. Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

Goal:

Eradicate hunger and poverty

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What do you think?

Attainable? Are we good?

Is there really hope in eradicating extreme poverty? How about halving or even by just denting the number of hungry people in the world, and I don't mean those who are hungry fat cats like me. Do you think there is a greater chance that people would be more empowered when it comes to being able to eat a decent meal three times a day?

GOAL: Eradicate Poverty and Hunger Share your view...

  • I-sparkle Mar 17, 2011 @ 1:52 pm | delete
    I think the improvement factor will be based on the economic factor. 2015 is after the year of 2012, which is when some dramatically big changes will be happening in every aspect on a widespread scale. A lot depends on that.

Goal 2:

Achieve universal primary education

Target 2A: By 2015, all children can complete a full course of primary schooling, girls and boys
1. Enrollment in primary education
2. Completion of primary education
3. Literacy of 15-24 year olds, female and male

Goal:

Universal Education

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What do you think?

Attainable? Are we good?

Universal Primary Education otherwise known in the Philippines as the Education For All program. What are the upsides and downsides into sending everyone to school? I mean nobody from the nineteenth century cared if you were a farmer or a city dweller? Whether you worked in a huge company or you're tending a farm? Or even asked what degree did you finish back in college. So what effect will this bring our future generations?

GOAL: Achieve universal primary education Share your view...

  • I-sparkle Mar 17, 2011 @ 1:54 pm | delete
    Lamentable, but true. Education has never been and will probably never be a fore runner of the priorities of mankind. No. I do not think that this goal will be attained by 2015.

Goal 3:

Promote gender equality and empower women

Target 3A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

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

2. Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

3. Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

Goal:

Gender Equality

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What do you think?

Attainable? Are we good?

Gender Equality, possible or impossible? What effects will this trigger? Will there really be offices with an equal ratio of male and female workers?

GOAL: Gender Equality Share your view...

  • I-sparkle Mar 17, 2011 @ 1:55 pm | delete
    Gender equality is a relative term. I give it a 50/50 based on a general perspective of the average joe and jane.

Goal 4:

Reduce child mortality rate

Target 4A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

1. Under-five mortality rate

2. Infant (under 1) mortality rate

3. Proportion of 1-year-old children immunized against measles

Goal:

Child Health

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What do you think?

Attainable? Are we good?

Well one question comes to mind. Do you think we should control child birth? I mean look at the ballooning population of the world. It took the dinosaurs over a hundred million years and a half before they were finally wiped out by nature. But we humans who are here for only a few thousand years are in danger of running out resources and has a growing population of not only children but humans who refuse to see this fact? I mean look at us, we know oil will run out in the next few decades, but only very few exceptions to the rule have been working to create and prepare for an environment without oil.

Abortion in many countries have also triggered a male dominant society, whatever would happen to a world where 75% of the population would be males?

GOAL: Child Health Share your view...

  • I-sparkle Mar 17, 2011 @ 1:56 pm | delete
    Realistically? Not attainable.

Goal 5:

Improve maternal health

Target 5A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
1. Maternal mortality ratio
2. Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

Target 5B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
1. Contraceptive prevalence rate
2. Adolescent birth rate
3. Antenatal care coverage
4. Unmet need for family planning

Goal:

Maternal Health

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What do you think?

Attainable? Are we good?

Wouldn't this really boil down to a good reproductive health program partnered with a good sex education campaign in schools? and if so wouldn't it totally change our perspective on the issue of morality? With that, traditional religious organizations will also rise up against RH Bills, the use of contraceptives and more. So will we ever be able to promote good maternal health without getting the ire of the religious?

GOAL: Improve maternal health Share your view...

  • I-sparkle Mar 17, 2011 @ 1:58 pm | delete
    Again. Sex education is still not even considered when important world issues are considered.

Goal 6:

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases

Target 6A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
1. HIV prevalence among population aged 15-24 years
2. Condom use at last high-risk sex
3. Proportion of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS

Target 6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
1. Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs

Target 6C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
1. Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
2. Proportion of children under 5 sleeping under insecticide-treated bednets
3. Proportion of children under 5 with fever who are treated with appropriate anti-malarial drugs
4. Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis
5. Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course)

Goal

Combat HIV AIDS

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What do you think?

Attainable? Are we good?

Would this really be easy? With no cure found and the disease crawling in the dark alleys of the society and those who get the disease falls into society's cracks, would we be able to combat aids? As more and more societies becoming health conscious, I believe so. With a good reproductive health program, it would also protect men and women alike, especially those who venture out on a date with several partners. But once more, I ask the old age question, will that do us good?

GOAL: Combat HIV AIDS Share your view...

  • I-sparkle Mar 17, 2011 @ 2:00 pm | delete
    Will not happen. Maybe not ever in our lifetime. Reminds me of cancer and so called cancer research. More research, more money poured into research. Still, no cure.

Goal 7:

Ensure environmental sustainability

Target 7A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources

Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
1. Proportion of land area covered by forest
2. CO2 emissions, total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP)
3. Consumption of ozone-depleting substances
4. Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits
5. Proportion of total water resources used
6. Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected
7. Proportion of species threatened with extinction

Target 7C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (for more information see the entry on water supply)
1. Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural
2. Proportion of urban population with access to improved sanitation

Target 7D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers
1. Proportion of urban population living in slums

Goal:

Environmental Sustainability

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What do you think?

Attainable? Are we good?

With more people becoming environmentally conscious and with more people realizing that we cannot live without oil I think we will be passing this goal with flying colors! But sadly, more people remain ignorant of the fact that oil will soon run out or blinded by the wealth oil can bring. Everyday we release carbon in the air and continue to damage our fragile environment. Many are working for Renewable energy and yet cars, the gas guzzlers remain to be solely designed to consume oil based products. Why can't we make a car that runs on water? or sunlight? Well I know there are a few cars and vehicles that can do this but truth be said many are hesitant to totally leave the oil business, imagine with a hundred dollars per barrel, would you really leave the business?

GOAL: Environmental Sustainability Share your view...

  • I-sparkle Mar 17, 2011 @ 2:02 pm | delete
    This is my area of research. Some advance has and will be made. How far we will have progressed? Again, 2012 will be a very fair barometer.

Goal 8:

Develop a global partnership for development

Target 8A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
1. Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction - both nationally and internationally

Target 8B: Address the Special Needs of the Least Developed Countries (LDC)
1. Includes: tariff and quota free access for LDC exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA (Overseas Development Assistance) for countries committed to poverty reduction

Target 8C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States
1. Through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly

Target 8D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
1. Some of the indicators listed below are monitored separately for the least developed countries (LDCs), Africa, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.
2. Official development assistance (ODA):
---a. Net ODA, total and to LDCs, as percentage of OECD/DAC donors' GNI
---b. Proportion of total sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC donors to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation)
---c. Proportion of bilateral ODA of OECD/DAC donors that is untied
---d. ODA received in landlocked countries as proportion of their GNIs
---e. ODA received in small island developing States as proportion of their GNIs
3. Market access:
---a. Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and from LDCs, admitted free of duty
---b. Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products and textiles and clothing from developing countries
---c. Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as percentage of their GDP
---d. Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity
4. Debt sustainability:
---a. Total number of countries that have reached their HIPC decision points and number that have reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative)
---b. Debt relief committed under HIPC initiative, US$
---c. Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services

Target 8E: In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries
1. Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis

Target 8F: In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
1. Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population
2. Personal computers in use per 100 population
3. Internet users per 100 Population

Goal:

Global Partnership

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What do you think?

Attainable? Are we good?

I strongly say, we have to develop a strong business oriented population. What do I mean? A population that is not dependent on working for anyone but themselves. A population that is capable of creating and running their own business. Why? Because employment sucks! (Harsh, I know!) Well here's why, when someone gets employed they will ultimately think there's no way out for them, and that employment is the only way for them to survive, which is false. There are several ways for all of us to earn cold hard cash without doing the bad way, and that is through business. Finding a market / niche for one's business is easy if we will be trained to do so. This will lead to developing brands which are unique to a certain location and developing local brands that are identifiable to one country. Easy to say but hard to do. :D

GOAL: Global Partnership Share your view...

  • I-sparkle Mar 17, 2011 @ 2:04 pm | delete
    Interesting. Actually we may have a shot at this one. Though global may be overly optimistic.

Our Goal?

The Big Question

One more Question... But this is a very, very big question. When 2015 comes, it will all boil down to this. And I think we all have our own point of views, bases and theories. After all this is the world of the future generations and our existence today is sitting on borrowed time. No matter how much power and wealth we amass, worms will eat us and only the future generations will inherit this earth. So the big question is...

Are we going to be successful with regard to the attainment of the 8 Goals?

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Pass? Why?

Fail? Why?

I-sparkle says:

Fail. We will make some progress with about 1/4 of these goals. Even then, it will not be attainment.

 

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