of poverty for the world’s poor. The United Nations system as well as the European Union (EU) have endorsed the Decent Work Agenda as contributing significantly to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals‚ and in particular target 1B of MDG 1. The ILO has developed a number of responses to assist international and national efforts to mainstream decent work objectives into their initiatives‚ including the development of decent work indicators‚ and a decent work toolkit to assist other
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Child Malnutrition and Mortality : Evidence from a Cross-Country Analysis Abstract The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) call for a two-thirds reduction in the mortality rate among children under age five between 1990 and 2015. Accurate and timely estimates of under-five mortality are needed to help countries set priorities‚ design programmes to reduce mortality‚ and monitor progress towards the MDG4. Developing these estimates poses a considerable challenge because of the limited data available
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| Primary education in sub-Saharan Africa | | | 3/19/2012 | Policy Briefing Paper | | Primary education and enrolment levels in sub-Saharan Africa remain a major development issue in the 21st century. The region has seen levels of primary enrollment climb from 47% to 87% since 1950 (UN 2010). It is now evident that nearly everywhere in the world; there are currently more children in receipt of primary education than 15 years ago. Nevertheless‚ 15% of all children around the globe‚ and 25%
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ENVIRONMENT I. Introduction Pakistan and other developing countries around the world are increasingly becoming conscious of the fact that‚ the pursuit of growth and development places a heavy burden on sustainability for now and for the foreseeable future. Development‚ sans environmental aspects is counter productive in sustaining the pace of progress. The Government of Pakistan believes in the creation of opportunities for the present generation without compromising on the potential of
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focuses on Joint Programmes‚ Teams (security‚ disaster‚ operations‚ AHI)‚ Advocacy with national and provincial elected representatives‚ UNDAF common programming‚ planning and monitoring‚ resource mobilization‚ HACT and popularizing and localizing MDGs. The UN in India has harmonized the UNDAF with national goals as articulated in the 11th Five-year Plan of the Government of India to facilitate ‘inclusive growth’. Accordingly‚ the UNDAF India 2008-2012 focuses on delivering results to the excluded
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Although some 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved sanitation since 1990‚ the world has missed the MDG target by nearly 700 million people. Today‚ only 68% of the world’s population uses an improved sanitation facility – 9% points below the MDG target of 77 per cent. The 2015 Global Risks report of the World Economic Forum identifies the occurrence of ‘Water Crises’ as the number one global risk in terms of impact and
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posed by early pregnancies‚ and to inform them about reporductive health in general. She added that the teen pregnancy concern‚ if not given focus‚ can derail and affect the country’s program targets with respect to its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). At 53 births per 1‚000 women aged between 15 and 19‚ the teenage pregnancy rate in the Philippines is the highest among Asean’s six major economies‚ the United Nations Population Fund’s 2011 annual report says. Government statistics on female
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Vision to the Development Discourse The post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework offers the opportunity to develop targets that reflects a more nuanced understanding of the challenge of development. A number of areas are being considered for inclusion in the post-2015 framework‚ on the basis of their causal or correlated relationship with development. One area in which significant work has been undertaken since the MDGs were agreed in 2000 has been in relation to the role that insecurity or
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committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets‚ with a deadline of 2015‚ that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the world’s time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions-income poverty‚ hunger‚ disease‚ lack of adequate shelter‚ and exclusion-while promoting gender equality‚ education‚ and environmental sustainability
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However‚ maternal health care has dragged behind other health statistics (UNDP‚ 2015). Millennium Development Goal [MDG] six: improve maternal health will be discussed to explore the issues in the context of Ethiopia. With primary focus on maternal health‚ it will be argued that low rate of utilizing healthcare facilities with skilled healthcare providers affecting maternal
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