UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched 2010 Asia-Pacific human development report - Power, voice and rights: a turning point for gender equality in Asia and the Pacific. The report focuses on 3 areas âeconomic power, political decision-making and legal rightsâ to analyse what holds women back, an......
An East African Sanitation Conference is currently taking place in Kampala, Uganda. Experts attending the conference say that achieving all of the Millennium Development Goals hinge on improving sanitation in the region. Some examples include having enough water so people can cook and feed themselves can help meet the hunger MDG. Also, those with sanitary toilet facilities are less likely be sick from diseases such as cholera to help meet the health MDG.According to Water Aid, One billion people lack access to water and over 2.4 billion people do not have proper sanitation. From All Africa writer Irene V. Nambi has this round-up of opinions from the conference. According to the Regional Director of UNICEF ESARO, Elhadj As Sy, major goals such as reducing child mortality rates mainly rely...
A new study says that African poverty is falling, and it's falling at a rate faster than many believe. In fact, the authors of the study say that Africa will meet it's Millennium Development Goal for poverty reduction only 2 years after the target year of 2015. The study's findings are in stark contrast to those of the United Nations.From Reuters Blogs, we find this analysis of the study.“Africa is reducing poverty, and doing it much faster than we thought,” the study by U.S.-based economists Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy said.“The growth from the period 1995-2006, far from benefiting only the elites, has been sufficiently widely spread that both total African inequality and African within-country inequality actually declined over this period.”The research, which...
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) launched Millennium Development Goals: advances in environmentally sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean (full text, pdf, 4.12 MB). The report focuses on the evironmental sustainablity (Goal 7) of the region in t......
A new report from the United Nations was unveiled yesterday that describes the development process of Asia. It says that many economies in Asia have been able to cut poverty in half to meetMillennium Development Goal number 1 by 2015. The report points out that the progress has been uneven, often leaving women behind. from the IPS, writer Diana G. Mendoza attended the report's unveiling. The Asia-Pacific Regional Report 2009/10, titled, "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in an Era of Global Uncertainty," said "most countries across Southeast Asia have reduced extreme poverty by half, but the other half has a woman’s face."Across the region, some countries have managed to cope with multiple threats of economic crisis, health shocks and pandemics, and natural disasters, but most...
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in an Era of Global Uncertainty: Asia-Pacific Regional Report 2009/10 (full text, pdf, 5.6 MB) - a joint report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the UN Development Programme (UN......
The Equator Prize is awarded biennially by the UNDP Equator Initiative for outstanding local, indigenous and community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Nominations for the Equator Prize 2010 must be received by 28 February 2010.......
UN Development Programme (UNDP) published Burundi national human development report. The summary of the report Bonne gouvernance et développement durable, available in French (full-text, 1.74 MB), argues that good governance and the rule of law are essential for sustainable human development in Buru......
The 5th joint WHO-UNICEF-GAVI Global Immunization Meeting is being held in Geneva from 1-3 February. The agenda of the meeting is to
Update on progress of the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS full text, 3.49 MB) and the global immunization and mortality reduction goals in the overall ......
The 5th joint WHO-UNICEF-GAVI Global Immunization Meeting is being held in Geneva from 1-3 February. The agenda of the meeting is to
Update on progress of the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS full text, 3.49 MB) and the global immunization and mortality reduction goals in the overal......
UNAIDS Outlook 2010 (full text) gives an overview of the epidemic with global and regional statistics. It also contains an analysis offering the UNAIDS interpretation and eyes the data available in the more detailed AIDS Epidemic Update report from different angles.
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UN Development Programme (UNDP) announced a new MDG-related report Beyond the midpoint: achieving the millennium development goals (full text, 1.8 MB). The report reviews "factors that shape MDG progress, along with the constraints and bottlenecks that have hampered MDG achievement in many countrie......
Nigeria is still characterized by high reliance on food imports. Malnutrition is widespread in the entire country and rural areas are especially vulnerable to chronic food shortages, malnutrition, unbalanced nutrition, erratic food supply, poor quality foods, high food costs, and even total lack of food. This phenomenon cuts across all age groups and categories of individuals in the rural areas.
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Reducing malnutrition, including undernutrition (insufficient calorie intake) and micronutrient deficiencies (insufficient intake of vitamins and minerals) is a high priority for Malawi and many developing country governments, closely linked to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. However, effective policy intervention requires knowing what causes malnutrition and how different development policies affect the nutritional status of the population.
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In his latest commentary, Jeffrey Sachs was asked to comment on his hopes for poverty fighting efforts in the next decade. Sachs remarks on how the Millennium Development Goals rallied the world during the past decade. Poor nations used it's clear goals and tried to meet them. While the leaders of the rich nations made well meaning pledges but largely did not follow through with them. Sachs writes about his hopes for the MDG's in the next decade, we found the commentary at the Ottawa Citizen. The Millennium Declaration addressed poverty with unusual clarity. First, rather than defining poverty in a simplistic and reductionist manner (for example, focusing on household income), the MDGs adopted a holistic vision of poverty, including income, hunger, disease, discrimination against girls...
The 2009/2010 National Human Development Report entitled Climate Change in Moldova: Socio-Economic Impact and Policy Options for Adaptation (full text, 12.42 MB). The report can be downloaded from the website of the UNDP Office in Moldova. The report looks into the impacts that the climate ch......
This year on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December), the anti-corruption campaign Your NO Counts highlights the devastating effects of corruption on development.
The 2009 joint international campaign focuses on how corruption hinders efforts to achieve the internationally ......
This year, the theme for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is âMaking the MDGs inclusive: empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the worldâ. According to the United Nations Enable website, "the theme has been selected to draw attention to and promote ......
On this yearâs World AIDS Day the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) announced a global call for nominations for the 2010 Red Ribbon Award. The biennial award, which will be presented at International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July 2010, wil......
Today, 1 December is World AIDS Day. The theme of this yearâs World AIDS Day is Universal Access and Human Rights. Read the statements by the UN Secretary-General and the UNAIDS Executive Director and learn more about what the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is doing to combat t......
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has released new recommendations "on treatment, prevention and infant feeding in the context of HIV" (news release). The recommendations can be found in the following "Rapid advice" publications:
Rapid advice: antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection in adult......
According to The energy access situation in developing countries: a review focusing on the least developed countries and Sub-Saharan Africa -- the recent UNDP-WHO report (full-text, 3.1MB) -- "about 1.5 billion people in developing countries lack access to electricity and about 3 billion people rely......
The report Tracking progress on child and maternal nutrition: a survival and development priority (full text, pdf 4.32MB) published by UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) emphasizes that "undernutrition jeopardizes childrenâs survival, health, growth and development, and it slows national progress towards d......
World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) launched new action plan against pneumonia, the leading killer of children. According to Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (full text, pdf, 681 KB), "of the estimated 9 million child deaths in 2007, around 20% ......
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the third edition of the State of the world's vaccines and immunization.
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impact of immunization on achieving the Millennium Development Goals
challenges in meeting the immunization-related global goals
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From the Inquirer, comes this analysis of the natural disasters in the Philippines. Each time bad weather strikes the nation, it sets it further back from meeting the Millennium Development Goals.Barely six years before the deadline for achieving its Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the Philippines continues to lag behind on its MDG targets.Worse, the series of natural disasters that hit the country have further set back government's efforts to reduce, if not eradicate, extreme poverty by 2015.With the Arroyo administration “on its last mile," it would be great if they could focus hard on the achievement of the country's MDG goals and meeting the needs of the poorest people of this country and leave a great legacy,” said Salil Shetty, director of the United Nations Millennium...
At the United Nations yesterday, Jeffrey Sachs said that the international community can meet the Millennium Development Goals if they spend the money necessary. Sachs says more donors are needed to improve infrastructure and fight diseases in the poor countries of the world. From the Business Mirror, Imelda V. Abaño recorded Sachs' comments.“We are not running out of time to achieve our development goals,” said Sachs, who is also the director of the Earth Institute and professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. “There is not a goal that can’t be achieved and we need to look at the financial gaps. Instead of commissioning more studies and making more promises, governments should finance, implement and scale up what they had already promised to do.”In...
"Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now!" begins today. Over 100 million people will stand up and be counted as supporting the Millennium Development Goals and will call on world leaders to help meet them. From this press release that we found at the Millenium Campaign website, is this round up the "Stand Up" events taking place this weekend. In Nairobi, Kenya, an anti- hunger concert dubbed Free the Hungry Billion, Stand Up and Take Action, will bring together development-conscious musicians from across the African continent, including Oliver Mutukudzi (Zimbabwe), Susan Owiyo (Kenya), Professor Jay (Tanzania), Didier Awadi (Senegal), Ntsiki Mazwai (South Africa), Carlou D (Senegal), Nameless (Kenya) and Wahu (Kenya). Food donations will be collected from attendees.Also in Kenya,...
The annual "Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now!" worldwide event begins tomorrow. For the fourth year in a row, demonstrations will take place throughout the world to show support and raise awareness on the Millennium Development Goals. Over 116 million people participated last year to show their support for fighting poverty. This years "Stand Up Take Action" runs from October 16th to 18, to find an event near you, go to the Stand Up website that features an interactive map that pinpoints all the demonstrations. From All Africa, reporter Abimbola Akosile sets up the "Stand Up" effort taking place in Nigeria.As the countdown starts tomorrow, all Nigerians have been called upon to fully participate in this year's 4th annual global 'Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now' mobilisation,...
"Stand Up, Take Action" is an event that focuses on the Millennium Development Goals, 7 goals that governments across the world promised to achieve by 2015. There have been mixed results, and that is a big reason for the event, to show political leaders that the the people want them to take the goals seriously. Many observers have said that the biggest thing standing in the way of meeting the goals is political will. From the IPS, reporter Evelyn Kiapi interviews Sylvia Mwichuli, deputy director of the U.N. Millennium Campaign, on goal achievement. IPS: What MDG has seen the most dramatic progress?SYLVIA MWICHULI: This is a general question which may hide the tremendous progress being made in individual countries. Different countries are scoring differently. Goals that may be met by one...