To What Extent Have the Millennium Development Goals Been a Success?
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IFP CTS Assignment 3 | To what extent have the Millennium Development Goals been a success? | | | | Jingi Hong | 25.APR.2011 | Word count:1357 |
In recent time, The World are become more develop than ever. On the other hands, some pool countries could not follow this development, so they left further more behind than before. In this reason, The UN set up the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) means eight international development goals that all UN members (192 nations) and 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. The Eight international development goals include Eradicate Poverty and Hunger, Achieve Universal Education, Promote Gender Equality, Reduce Child Mortality, Improve Maternal Health, Combat HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases, Ensure Environmental Sustainability, and Global Partnership for Development (UN, 2000). After decade from programmed MDGs, there are lots of arguments about MDGs are being success or not. It is difficult to say that they are success or not, because it is still being processed and there are no measure to what is success. However, this paper will discuss about successful MDGs stories, such as encourage primary education, reduce risk of diseases and gender equality, and in what ways MDGs is being success.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger is the first goal and most important thing, because most of problems which are mentioned by MDGs spring from poverty and hunger. United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) is trying to make a change in poor countries by citizens themselves not by just helping from UNDP. For example, micro-credit, which is the extension of very small loans to those in poverty designed to spur entrepreneurship, has helped jumpstart small businesses, providing decent livelihoods for Nepal's marginalized citizens. With UNDP support, for example, 23-year old Surya Lama now operates a small mushroom farm in the basement of his home. The
IFP CTS Assignment 3 | To what extent have the Millennium Development Goals been a success? | | | | Jingi Hong | 25.APR.2011 | Word count:1357 |
In recent time, The World are become more develop than ever. On the other hands, some pool countries could not follow this development, so they left further more behind than before. In this reason, The UN set up the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) means eight international development goals that all UN members (192 nations) and 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. The Eight international development goals include Eradicate Poverty and Hunger, Achieve Universal Education, Promote Gender Equality, Reduce Child Mortality, Improve Maternal Health, Combat HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases, Ensure Environmental Sustainability, and Global Partnership for Development (UN, 2000). After decade from programmed MDGs, there are lots of arguments about MDGs are being success or not. It is difficult to say that they are success or not, because it is still being processed and there are no measure to what is success. However, this paper will discuss about successful MDGs stories, such as encourage primary education, reduce risk of diseases and gender equality, and in what ways MDGs is being success.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger is the first goal and most important thing, because most of problems which are mentioned by MDGs spring from poverty and hunger. United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) is trying to make a change in poor countries by citizens themselves not by just helping from UNDP. For example, micro-credit, which is the extension of very small loans to those in poverty designed to spur entrepreneurship, has helped jumpstart small businesses, providing decent livelihoods for Nepal's marginalized citizens. With UNDP support, for example, 23-year old Surya Lama now operates a small mushroom farm in the basement of his home. The