Millennium Development Goals 2000-2015

1. Al Neelain University- Faculty of Medicine Department of Community MedicineSemester (7)Primary Health Care Course Millennium Development Goals2000-2015Dr.AbeerAbuzeid Atta Elmannan Ali

2. Millennium Development Goals2000-2015

3. Session Outlines: • The origin of MDGs • What are MDGs? • How progress towards MDGs is measured? • Activities • Progress achieved & Challenges remaining.

4. The Birth of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) • MDGs is a UN initiative. • The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. • The MDGs are derived from this Declaration, and all have specific targets and indicators. • All 191 UN member states have agreed to try to achieve the 8 MDGs by the year 2015.

5. The MDGs Framework Adopts a broad Human Development approach: • Hunger, • Health, • Education, • Gender equity, • Environmental sustainability .

6. Why MDGs,,,? • MDGs are eight targeted development aims designed to free humanity from; Extreme poverty, Hunger, Illiteracy and Disease by 2015. • MDGs emphasize the role of developed countries in aiding developing countries. (Goal 8).

7. The Eight Millennium Development Goals are: Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education; Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women; Goal 4: Reduce child mortality; Goal 5: Improve maternal health; Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability; and Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

8. All the MDG influence Health, and Health influences all the MDGs The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) place health at the heart of development ,and are inter-dependent; For example: • Better health enables children to learn and adults to earn. • Reducing poverty, hunger and environmental degradation positively influences, but also depends on, better health.

9. MDGs Targets & Indicators The eight MDGs break down into: • 21 quantifiable targets that are measured by • 60 indicators.

10. What are Indicators? • Defined as variables which help to measure changes. • They can ; • Indicate Direction of change, • Indicate Speed of change, • Compare areas or groups of people at the same point in time.

11. Why are Indicators important? • To measure progress towards MDGs . • Where are we today? • How far away from the target are we? • What progress is being made.

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21. Criticisms accompanied the MDGs • Lack of analysis and justification behind the chosen objectives, • Difficulty or lack of measurements for some goals. • The mechanism used focuses on donor achievements rather than development successes. These goals are better achieved by community initiatives rather than by external financing.

22. Activity 1 What do you think are the relationships between improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene and the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs)? Hint; Sanitation: a means of keeping faeces distant from human beings. Hygiene: behavioral means of reducing the spread of potential pathogens.

23. Activity 2 • The WHO provides ways to help countries reach MDGs, below are some of these ways. Read carefully and then match these ways with relevant MDGs?

24. WHO Ways ,,,,, • WHO recommends replacing user fees with pre-payment financing systems such as insurance. • WHO assesses children’s growth according to a global standard to identify cases of Malnutrition. • WHO trains more birth attendants . • WHO provides a full range of health services for women of all ages. • WHO improves local availability of effective Antimalarials.

25. 3 years to the deadline ,,,Where are we? UN MDGs 2013 ReportProgress towards the goals was uneven across countries

26. Much progress has been made. But more efforts and investment are necessary to make further progress by 2015.

27. Thank you