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    World Water Day

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    day’ proposed in 1992 in Agenda 21 of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio-de-Janeiro‚ Brazil. Each year more than 1 billion of our fellow human beings have little choice but to resort to using potentially harmful sources of water. This perpetuates a silent humanitarian crisis that kills some 3900 children every day and thwarts progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The consequences of our collective failure to tackle this problem are the

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    Education for All

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    [1] UNESCO has been mandated to lead the movement and coordinate the international efforts to reach Education for All. Governments‚ development agencies‚ civil society‚ non-government organizations and the media are but some of the partners working toward reaching these goals. The EFA goals also contribute to the global pursuit of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)‚ especially MDG 2 on universal primary education and MDG 3 on gender equality in education‚ by 2015. The Fast Track Initiative was

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    Child Mortality in Ghana

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    look to progress economically‚ socially‚ and politically. In the case of Ghana‚ issues of development range from poverty to primary education‚ also from internal and external resources to basic healthcare. Africa‚ among the many developing continents full of Third World countries‚ has been invariably problematic in terms of economic growth and development. The need to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) is critical to the people of Africa. Reducing poverty and hunger‚ promoting primary

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    History of Bull

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    15. Discuss the importance and sustainability of service led growth. MODULE 2 1. Distinguish between economic growth and economic development. 2. Explain the concept of growth and its sources. 3. What are the effects of economic growth? 4. Explain the concept of growth and development. 5. Explain the meaning and significance of knowledge economy and examine the emergence of knowledge economy in India through IT. 6. Explain

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    seminars and similar re-training programmes for teachers in order to achieve educational goals. Key Words: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)‚ Capacity Building Workshops‚ Pupils Academic Performance. INTRODUCTION The problem of development is of paramount concern to scholars‚ activists‚ politicians and organizations both at local and international levels. The general belief is that sustainable development will bring about positive change visible in ability of people to acquire their basic

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    Don C

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    nutrition and education and so forth. Gender-based discrimination continues in adolescence & is often a constant feature of adulthood. Bangladesh is considered as one of the least developed countries of the world. Though the world thinks about the millennium goals‚ yet Bangladesh has not been able to establish the fundamental rights to her people. Unequal power relations between females and males lead to widespread violations of health and human rights. Among the most persistent and pernicious are early

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    Yemen

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    of hungry people in the world exceeds the sum of the populations of the U.S.‚ Canada‚ and the European Union. A quarter of children born in developing nations are underweight.Ten years after the drafting of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)‚ the world has yet to achieve the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. Hunger and malnutrition are words that are often used interchangeably. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)‚ following the advice of the Committee on National

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    Mortality Rate ➢ IMR - Infant Mortality Rate ➢ UBOS- Uganda Bureau of Statistics ➢ NPA- National Planning Authority ➢ HDI- Human Development Index ➢ MOH- Ministry of Health ➢ MOFPED- Ministry of Finance Planning and Economics Development ➢ MDG- Millennium Development Goal ➢ UNICEF- United Nations International Children’s Education Fund INTRODUCTION Background Maternal mortality rate is the annual number of mothers who

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    role in promoting gender balance in decision-making. It is important to have balanced participation of women and men at all levels of decision making. Gender equality is central to human development and to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as to the enhancement of development effectiveness‚ (UNDP‚ 2011). MDGs attach great importance to gender equality and women’s empowerment in all facets of life. Gender mainstreaming is one of the strategies that the UN utilises

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    Woman Empowerment

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    become a significant topic of discussion in regards to development and economics. Entire nations‚ businesses‚ communities‚ and groups can benefit from the implementation of programs and policies that adopt the notion of women empowerment.[2] Empowerment is one of the main procedural concerns when addressing human rights and development. The Human Development and Capabilities Approach‚ The Millennium Development Goals‚ and other credible approaches/goals point to empowerment and participation as a necessary

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