Millennium Development Goals MDGs

1. Millennium Development GoalsMDGs Salwa Tobbala March 26, 2011

2. What are the Millennium Development Goals?

3. MDGs * http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml 3 • UN declaration for the millennium • Adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 • to be achieved by 2015 • framework for the international community to work together towards a common goal • concrete, numerical benchmarks • Ensuring that human development reaches everyone, everywhere

4. 8 MDGs*: - 21 quantifiable targets - 60 indicators Eradicate extreme Poverty and Hunger Achieve Universal Primary Education Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Reduce Child Mortality Improve Maternal Health Combat HIV/AIDS , Malaria and other diseases Ensure Environmental Sustainability Develop a Global Partnership for Development

5. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day 2. Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people 3. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

6. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger 6 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day 2. Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people 3. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

7. Achieve Universal Primary Education Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

8. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women • Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 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

9. Reduce Child Mortality • Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate 4.1 Under-five mortality rate 4.2 Infant mortality rate 4.3 Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised against measles

10. Improve Maternal Health • Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio 5.1 Maternal mortality ratio 5.2 Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

11. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases • Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS 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

12. Ensure Environmental Sustainability • Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources • Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss • Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation • By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

13. Ensure Environmental SustainabilityGEF • Environmental issues as climate change, ozone depletion, and others are global in nature • UNDP promote sustainable development through Global Environment Facility (GEF) • GEF is the largest fund for protecting the environment, UNDP (one of the implementing agencies) with UNEP, World Bank, and others

14. Develop a Global Partnership for Development • Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system • Address the special needs of the least developed countries • Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States • Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developingcountries through national and international measures

15. Develop a Global Partnership for Development (cont.) • In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries • In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

16. Save The Children/USAIDAchieving the Millennium Development Goals in Low Human Development Index Districts Project • Commoners demonstrate sincere interest in taking active roles towards shaping their future when provided with: fair, suitable and adequate means to do so. • Mainstream MDGs in activities of women empowerment sessions and men community meeting in a simple and down to earth approach that touched the daily lives of both men and women; • Develop participatory district plans in Minya ( Samalout ) and Assiut (Abnoub , Sedfa and Mnfalout ) • Needs and concerns of the community were identified and embeded in the district and governorate plans.

17. Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger • There is a clear concentration of the poor in the rural Upper Egypt region • Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education • The Population Census 2006 report indicated: % of population aged 6-17 years , never attended school highest in Upper Egypt

18. Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women • Upper Egypt’s governorates still suffer from a wide gap of enrolment between boys and girls. • Wider gender gaps detected at the level of the other two streams (technical and Al Azhar Secondary) • Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality • Rural Upper Egypt governorate : poorest developmental indicators compared to the rest of the country

19. Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health • High % of mothers who experience early marriages and have their first birth at age less than 18 years • The highest rates in Upper Egypt, especially rural areas, reaching 54.3% • Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Major Diseases • HIV prevalence is estimated to be less than 1% in the general population • Egypt succeeded in controlling malaria, while tuberculosis is regressing (from 70% in 1982 to 24% in 2006) • However, hepatitis B (2% - 8% nationally) and hepatitis C (8.8% nationally) constitute major health threats

20. Goal 7: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability Egypt faces many and diversified challenges towards achieving this goal including: • Inadequate environmental education and awareness activities, little impact on increasing environment-friendly behavior among citizens • Expansion in economic activities, especially industrial, without compliance to ‘clean development’ mechanisms • Low standard of living in the rural areas placing barriers to the expansion of water and sanitation services • Weakness in the implementation and enforcement of environmental law and policies

21. * Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development • Egypt's Official Development Assistance (ODA) disbursement has seen a rise of 5% in the period between 2001 and 2007 • The government’s Sixth Five Year Plan (2007- 2012) has set a number of policies: enhance export performance and competitiveness • Good performance of exports was reflected in the decline of the ratio of debt interests to exports of goods and services • Still much needed to achieve and sustain a global partnership : more concentration on efficient budget resource allocation to reduce the public debt

22. MDG 2010–2015Strategies & Policies for MDG acceleration • Supporting country-led development and effective governance; 2. Fostering inclusive and pro-poor economic growth; 3. increasing public investments in education, health, water, sanitation and infrastructure; 4. scaling up targeted interventions, including social protection and employment programmes; 5. investing in expanded opportunities for women and girls and advancing their economic, legal and political empowerment; 6. enhancing access to energy and promoting low-carbon development; 7. accelerating domestic resource mobilization to finance the MDGs; 8. ensuring the global partnership creates an enabling environment for the MDGs, particularly delivering on ODA commitments.

23. Meeting MDG commitment is not only a moral imperative, but reflects a mutual interest to live in a stable and prosperous world* THANK YOU * http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml