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Friday, June 6, 2008

Millennium Development Goals, Precisely

8 Goals

Briefly stated: Full bellies and wallets, educated minds, equal & empowered women, surviving babies and mothers, health (less ATM disease), clean water and sanitation and happy slums, and global cooperation for a shared future.
Defeat the goalie!
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
a)Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day, and,
b)Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
.........(Indicators: weight of children under age 5, and level of energy consumption)

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
c)Ensure that, by 2015, all children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
.........(Indicators: primary school enrollment, proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5, Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds)

Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
d)Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
..........(Indicators: Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education; Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old; Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector; Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament)

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
e)Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
.........(Indicators: Under-five mortality rate; Infant mortality rate; Proportion of 1 year-old children immunized against measles).

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
f)Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
..........(Indicators: Maternal mortality ratio; Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel)

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
g)Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
..........(Indicators: HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years; Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate; Condom use at last high-risk sex; Percentage of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS; Contraceptive prevalence rate; Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years)
and,
h)Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
..........(Indicators: Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria; Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures; Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis; Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under internationally recommended TB control strategy (DOTS))

Something to think about at the ATM (Aids, Tuberculosis, Malaria..)

Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (3 aspects)
i)Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
........(Indicators: Proportion of land area covered by forest; Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area; Energy use (kg oil equivalent) per $1 GDP (PPP); Carbon dioxide emissions per capita and consumption of ozone-depleting CFCs (ODP tons); Proportion of population using solid fuels)
and,
j)Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
..........(Indicators: Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural; Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural)
and,
k)Have achieved by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
.........(Indicators: Proportion of households with access to secure tenure)

Finally,
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development (7aspects)
l)Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system (includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction, both nationally and internationally.)
and,
m)Address the special needs of the Least Developed Countries (this includes tariff- and quota-free access for Least Developed Countries' exports, enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries [HIPCs] and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.)
and,
n)Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing states.
and,
o)Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures (to make debt "sustainable in the long term" which is a weird way of putting it, because you want to get rid of your debt (!))
.........(around a dozen Indicators: Official Development Assistance (ODA); Proportion to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation); Proportion of ODA untied; Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and from LDCs, admitted free of duty; Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products/textiles/clothing from developing countries; Agric. support as percentage of GDP; Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity; debt sustainability; point system for HIPC's; Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services)
and,
p)In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.
........(Indicators: Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each sex and total)
and,
q)In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
.........(Indicators: Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis)
and,
r)In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications technologies
.........(Indicators: Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population; Personal computers in use per 100 population, and Internet users per 100 population)

r is the 18th letter.

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