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YOUTH and MDGs Round III

YOUTH and MDGs Round III. WEEK 1: THE MANIFEST 9 th May to 15 th May 2011. UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA

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YOUTH and MDGs Round III

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  1. YOUTH and MDGsRound III WEEK 1: THE MANIFEST 9th May to 15th May 2011

  2. UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. Youth Action for Change (YAC) is an Innovative international youth run non-profit organization which equips young people with knowledge and skills that enable them to directly get involved in improving their Communities livelihoods.  Introduction Youth Dividend is a dynamic youth led organization in Pakistan working to develop, inform, inspire and mobilize young people through leadership training, peer education, awareness raising, skill building, policy and advocacy.

  3. E-Course Instructors HiraHafeez Ur Rehman, Young Professional Officer, Poverty Reduction & Gender, UNDP/ Coordinator, Youth Advisory Panel, UNFPA, Pakistan/ Co-Founder, Youth Dividend HajraHafeez Ur Rehman, Research Associate, HIV & AIDS Surveillance Programme, Canadian International Development Agency, Pakistan/ Asia Pacific Leadership Programme Fellow, East West Centre, Hawaii, United States/ Co-Founder, Youth Dividend Experts/Mentors from UN Agencies and International Development Organizations: • Alissa Caron, Country Director, Population Development International, Cambodia • JeehanSalim, HIV AIIDS and Youth Consultant, UNFPA Maldives • Jenny Prisk, CEO Prisk Communications, Voices of Women, USA • Dr. MalalayAhmadzai, Safe Motherhood and Child Specilist, UNICEF Cambodia. • ShaziaAmjad, Education expert, Pakistan Education Task Force, Pakistan • NidaMushtaq, Board of Directors, Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, Pakistan • SharimaRuwaidaAbbas, Faculty, Social Work, PhdUniveristy of Hawaii, USA, Malaysia • RodicaIanole, Health and behavioral economics expert, Romania • Noorullah Jan Ahmadzai, Local Governance and Institutional Development Specialist Senior Technical Advisor with the Kabul Mayor, Afghanistan • Joshua L. Coopaer, Director, Hawaiian Institute for Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability activist, Hawaii. • LkhamdulamNatsagdorj, Executive Director, People Centered Conservation, Mongolia • MilindaRajapaksha, Consultant, International Planned Parenthood Federation, India • Sadia Atta Mehmood, National Programme Officer, Youth Programme, UNFPA Pakistan

  4. Course Objectives • Understand what the Millennium Development Goals are and why they are important • Know what the eight MDGs are, and how they relate to their targets and indicators • Understand the different levels of MDGs and MDG indicators • Challenges and opportunities for implementation of MDGs • Youth Involvement in achieving the MDGs • Designing your own project at community level

  5. Are you ready to learn about the MDGs!!!

  6. “Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “The MDGs.” “MDGs who?” “You’re kidding, right? We’re the Millennium Development Goals. You know, the biggest attempt ever to make the world fairer. We arrived in the neighborhood in 2000.” “So, this isn’t a joke?” “No! There’s eight of us. We’re huge and we’re global and we’re on a mission. With your help, we’re going to reduce poverty and hunger, get all primary-age children in school, empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, target HIV and other diseases, make a more sustainable environment and partner for development.” “With my help? It sounds impossible.” “It isn’t.” “I’m sorry, but I’m a bit busy to save the world today. You know, I’ve got stuff to do. You can come back in 2015 if you want. No, just kidding. What can I do?” “Well, we’re here to remind you that in 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders decided to increase aid and reduce poverty by 2015. We’re the eight goals they agreed on and time is running out. Australia promised to increase its aid budget to point seven per cent of GDP, but it’s hardly halfway there. Its slack.” “I’m fairly busy.” “You can’t be too busy to stand up against poverty and tell the politicians what is important. Check out the website. Stand up yourself. In September, the world’s leaders are meeting to discuss the MDGs. Let them know what you think.” “Will it make a difference?” “We are making a difference already. God says to feed the hungry and protect the widow. That’s no joke.”

  7. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS Where did they come from? • Millennium Summit 2000 – largest ever gathering of world leaders where Millennium Declaration was endorsed, a commitment to work together to build a safer, more prosperous and equitable world • The Declaration was translated into a roadmap setting out eight time-bound and measurable goals to be reached by 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) • International development goals that 189 United Nations member states and 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015 • A series of goals to end extreme poverty and human rights

  8. What is the Millennium Declaration 2000 • The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most broadly supported, comprehensive and specific development goals the world has ever agreed upon. • These eight time-bound goals provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions. They include goals and targets on income poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality, environmental degradation and the Global Partnership for Development. • Adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, the MDGs are both global and local, tailored by each country to suit specific development needs. They provide a framework for the entire international community to work together towards a common end – making sure that human development reaches everyone, everywhere. If these goals are achieved, world poverty will be cut by half, tens of millions of lives will be saved, and billions more people will have the opportunity to benefit from the global economy

  9. Why do MDGs matter? • They are the first set of quantitative and time-bound goals shared by developing and developed countries • They offer an integrated, goal-oriented measuring stick for poverty reduction • They form the basis on which to mobilize resources for investing in human development • At the country level they provide a platform for discussion and advocacy

  10. MDGs 2015: Vision for the future A world with • less poverty, hunger and disease, • greater survival prospects for mothers and their infants, • better educated children, • equal opportunities for women, • a healthier environment, • a world in which developed and developing countries worked in partnership for the betterment of all. 

  11. MDGs: Targets and Indicators • To help track progress on the commitment made in the year 2000 in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, international and national statistical experts selected relevant indicators to be used to assess progress over the period from 1990 to 2015, when targets are expected to be met. (refer to Road Map towards implementation of the UN MDGs in the resource materials) • The road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration contains an integrated and comprehensive overview of the current situation. It outlines potential strategies for action that are designed to meet the goals and commitments made by the 147 heads of State and Government, and 189 Member States in total, who adopted the Millennium Declaration.

  12. What are Goals, Targets and Indicators GOAL: An objective expression of what is to be achieved, usually non technical and often not quantified TARGET: Individual, observable achievement directly related to the goal INDICATOR: Variable used to measure progress towards the target

  13. GOALS TARGETS AND INDICATORS • The internationally agreed framework of 8 goals and 21 targets was complemented by 60 technical indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. • These indicators have since been adopted by a consensus of experts from the United Nations, IMF, OECD and the World Bank. 

  14. MDG Indicator Structure Each indicator is clearly defined, and topics such as its rationale, data sources and computational methods are spelled out. • Definition • Goal and target • Rationale • Method of computation • Data collection and source • Periodicity of measurement • Gender issues • Disaggregation issues • Comments and limitations • References and international data comparisons • Agencies Note: Not all sub-headings are listed for every indicator

  15. What are the EIGHT goals?

  16. Why MDGs are unique in so many powerful ways? • They represent a compact between all the world's major economic players. Poorer countries pledged to improve policies and governance and increase accountability to their own citizens; wealthy countries pledged to provide the resources. • The world has never before seen so much prosperity. The hundreds of billions that are being spent in Iraq have put things in perspective. We might not need more than about $50 billion of additional aid per year to meet the Goals.  3. Performance against the goals is being monitored. These are not just lofty statements of intent; precise monitoring mechanisms have been put in place, in the form of national Millennium Goals reports and the Secretary General's reports to the General Assembly. 

  17. Why MDGs are unique in so many powerful ways? • The Goals are clearly achievable. Some have even argued that they are not in fact millennium, but 'minimum' development goals. Individual Goals have already been achieved by many countries in the space of only 10-15 years. • World leaders from rich and poor countries alike committed themselves--at the highest political level--to a set of eight time-bound targets that, when achieved, will end extreme poverty worldwide by 2015. • Goals 1 through 7 commit them to raise the poor out of poverty and hunger, get every child into school, empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, and ensure environmental sustainability.

  18. Why MDGs are unique in so many powerful ways? • Goal 8 explicitly recognizes that eradicating poverty worldwide can be achieved only through a global partnership for development. This global deal makes clear that it is the primary responsibility of poor countries to ensure greater accountability to citizens and efficient use of resources. 8. But for poor countries to achieve the first seven goals, it is absolutely critical that wealthier countries deliver on their end of the bargain--more and more effective aid, more sustainable debt relief and fairer trade rules--well in advance of 2015.

  19. 2010- Importance of Youth & MDGs • Population statistics indicate that currently, 1.7 billion people — more than one-fourth of the world's six billion people — are between the ages of 10 and 24, making this group of young people the largest ever to be entering adulthood and the largest underrepresented segment of the world’s population. • The International Year of Youth, and the theme to promote dialogue among youth and with the world, draws attention towards these needs. With only five years before the deadline set by the international community to achieve the development goals agreed in the year 2000, and such a large global young people population, it is recognized that a youth-oriented focus on these goals is required and essential for the efforts to be effective and progressive on a long term basis. Youth are the future.

  20. What the eight MDGs are, and how they relate to their targets and indicators

  21. Do you know that more than one billion of the world’s population survives with less than US$ 1 (one dollar or its local currency equivalent) per day

  22. Target 1a: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day 1.1 Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day 1.2 Poverty gap ratio 1.3 Share of poorest quintile in national consumption Sample Indicator: Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day)

  23. Target 1b: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people Sample Indicators: 1.4 Growth rate of GDP per person employed 1.5 Employment-to-population ratio 1.6 Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP) per day 1.7 Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total employment

  24. Target 1c: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger • Sample Indicators: 1.8 Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age 1.9 Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

  25. Do you know that 25% of primary age children in rural areas of developing countries are out of school? Do you know that 45% of high school age youths in developing countries do not go to school

  26. Target 2a: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling • Sample Indicators: 2.1 Net enrolment ratio in primary education 2.2 Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary 2.3 Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds, women and men

  27. Do you know that girls account for 55% of all out-of-school youth population. Almost 2/3 of women in developing countries work in vulnerable jobs or as unpaid family workers and that in Southern Asian and sub-Saharan Africa, this type of work accounts for more than 80% of all jobs available for women there.

  28. Target 3a: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 • Sample Indicators: 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

  29. Do you know that a child born in a developing country is over 13 times more likely to die within the first 5 years of life than a child born in an industrialized country? • Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for about half of deaths of children under five in the developing world.

  30. Target 4a: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five Sample Indicators: • 4.1 Under-five mortality rate • 4.2 Infant mortality rate • 4.3 Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised against measles

  31. Do you know that every minute, a woman dies of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. • This adds up to more than 500,000 annually and 10 million over a generation. Almost all of these women, 99% - live and die in developing countries. • Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless due to maternal deaths.

  32. Target 5a: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio 5.1 Maternal mortality ratio 5.2 Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel • Target 5b: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health 5.3 Contraceptive prevalence rate 5.4 Adolescent birth rate 5.5 Antenatal care coverage (at least one visit and at least four visits) 5.6 Unmet need for family planning

  33. Do you know that 33 million people (globally) are living with HIV/AIDS in 2007; majority of which lives in sub-Saharan Africa and 60% of whom are women. • Malaria kills over 1 million people annually, 80% of which are children under five in sub-Saharan Africa.

  34. Target 6a: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS Sample Indicators: • 6.1 HIV prevalence among population aged 15-24 years • 6.2 Condom use at last high-risk sex • 6.3 Proportion of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS • 6.4 Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years

  35. Target 6b: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it Sample Indicator: 6.5 Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs

  36. Target 6c: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases Sample Indicators: • 6.6 Incidence and death rates associated with malaria • 6.7 Proportion of children under 5 sleeping under insecticide-treated bed-nets • 6.8 Proportion of children under 5 with fever who are treated with appropriate anti-malarial drugs • 6.9 Incidence, prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis • 6.10 Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under directly observed treatment short course

  37. Do you know that about one billion of the world’s population does not have access to safe drinking water? • 1.6 billion has no access to electricity.

  38. Target 7a: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources • Target 7b: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss Sample Target 7a and 7b Indicators: 7.1 Proportion of land area covered by forest 7.2 CO2 emissions, total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP) 7.3 Consumption of ozone-depleting substances 7.4 Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits 7.5 Proportion of total water resources used 7.6 Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected 7.7 Proportion of species threatened with extinction

  39. Target 7c: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation Sample indicators: 7.8 Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source7.9 Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility

  40. Target 7d: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020 Sample indicators:7.10 Proportion of urban population living in slums

  41. In developed countries, 58% of people used the internet in 2006, compared to only 11% in developing countries and 1% in least developed countries ... Aid flows continue to drop and the promised ODA targets of the G8 countries are not expected to be met if additional global aid of $50 billion is not given, half of which is for Africa.

  42. Target 8a: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction; both nationally and internationally • Target 8b: Address the special needs of the least developed countriesIncludes tariff and quota free access for the least developed countries' exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction • Target 8c: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States 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.

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