United Nations Development Programme 304 East 45th Street New York‚ NY www.undp.org/women/ September 2008 ISBN 978-92-1-136228-5 PAPER FOR THE PARTNERSHIP EVENT ON SEPTEMBER 25‚ 2008: MDG3 – GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN – A PREREQUISITE FOR ACHIEVING ALL MDGs BY 2015 United Nations Development Programme 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
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2011 Message from Dr Hamadoun I. Touré‚ ITU Secretary-General Better Life in Rural Communities with ICTsICTs are constantly reshaping the way the world communicates while creating opportunities for a better life through long-term‚ sustainable development‚ not least among the most disadvantaged sections of our society. This year‚ as we celebrate ITU’s 146th anniversary‚ we focus our attention on the world’s rural communities in our quest to connect the remotest corners to the benefits of ICTs
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Social Evils‚ poverty and health Poverty is one of the most important social evils and a major determinant of ill health (1). From time it is known that poor social status is a major determinant of disease and reduces longevity in a big way. The Charaka Samhita recognized that community structure and functioning was an important cause of disease in individuals. The association of individual illness causing community disturbances and poverty and vice versa
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to be a good bet for success. It is for this reason that governments invest huge amounts of resources with the aim of ensuring that its people acquire education. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) were a set of goals accepted by nations for the purpose of ensuring better lives for the people of the world. The second goal of the MDGs deals with the achievement of the universal primary education. It is no doubt that the importance of education cannot be underestimated. However‚ education that is
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participation to social daily activities -Dr Amartya Sen Global extent of chronic poverty APPROX. 300-420 MILLION CHRONICALLY POOR Reasons Why Poverty cannot be ignored…… 1. Some Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can never be achieved without reaching the poor. 2. Other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be achieved fully or in part by excluding the poor. The poverty of those left behind post-2015 will likely be even more intractable. 3. By denying the poorest – those with least to
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Change and Development Doctors without boarders This case analysis is about the work Doctors Without Borders do for the people with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the Sub-Saharan country of Swaziland and the story of a boy named Senzo that are in the middle of such a treatment. With a weak immune system because of the HIV virus‚ tuberculosis and similar diseases could kill him. With the help of this organization and many other similar initiatives‚ the Millennium Development Goal of decreasing
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hunger is sure to exist as well. This is not surprising‚ and for some time‚ governments around the world have recognized the two as inseparable. The Millennium Development Goals (a set of human development targets)‚ put reducing hunger and poverty together at the top of the list‚ as stated by an article in the Guardian. All the other goals follow from these two topics The MDGs‚ introduced at the United Nations (U.N) in 2000‚ have been accepted by all U.N. member countries‚ including the United States
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org/history_of_education.htm‚ 2014) Soon the creation of schools became more structured and systematized‚ and was adapted into practice around the world. History of Philippine Education Education in the Philippines has undergone several stages of development from the pre-Spanish times to the present. In meeting the needs of the society‚ education serves as focus of emphases/priorities of the leadership at certain periods/epochs in our national struggle as a race. As early as in pre-Magellanic times
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Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Countries Nasim Basiri EFL University‚ India ‚ 2013 nasimbasiri@gmail.com[->0] INTRODUCTION For centuries women were not treated equal to men in many ways. They were not allowed to own property‚ they did not have a Share in the property of their parents‚ they had no voting rights‚ they had no freedom to choose their work or job and so on. Now that we have come out of those dark days of oppression of women there is a need
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National Report on the Development and State of the Art of Adult Learning and Education in Botswana Ministry of Education and Skills Development 2008 1 FOREWORD Honourable Jacob D. Nkate Minister of Education and Skills Development The Fifth International Conference on Adult Learning and Education (CONFINTEA V) has motivated the nation of Botswana to accelerate its effort in the provision of adult learning and education. That kind of action was necessary because we firmly believe that we must
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