Funding Wide Ranging Development Objectives

According to the Millennium Development Goals Report 2012, “783 million people, or 11 per cent of the global population, remain without access to an improved source of drinking water. Such sources include household connections, public standpipes, boreholes, protected dug wells, protected springs and rainwater collections.” (United Nations, 2012) The United Nations Water Conference in 1977 along with a few other conferences, addressed helping approximately “1.3 billion people in developing countries gain access to safe drinking water.” (United Nations, 2012) While there is progress being made, we see that various regions without clean drinking water. Reports show, “In four of nine developing regions, 90 per cent or more of the population now uses an improved drinking water source. In contrast, coverage remains very low in Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa, neither of which is on track to meet the MDG drinking water target by 2015. Over 40 per cent of all people without improved drinking water live in sub-Saharan Africa.” (United Nations, 2012) It is shown that rural areas still lack drinkable water as opposed to urban areas. Consistent improvement has been made to supply populated areas with a reliable source of drinking water. However, research shows, “Coverage with improved drinking water sources for rural populations is still lagging. In 2010, 96 per cent of the urban population used an

I chose two articles regarding Africa, which relates to MDG 1 eradicate extreme poverty & hunger. The continent of Africa has many countries that are on “The 25 poorest countries in the world” list. We hear about and see commercials regularly on the devastating hunger and poverty situation in Africa.

The world faced a stark reality at the turn of the century. Amidst unprecedented new wealth and powerful new technologies, millions were still getting sick and dying from diseases and life expectancies were actually falling. Therefore, in September 2000, 189 country representatives adopted the Millennium Development Goals to focus on time limited commitments to reduce poverty and promote human development in order to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other disease by 2015.(WHO, 2008). The challenge for meeting this deadline of goals was perceived as emergent and had a powerful effect for transforming the long-standing problem of global public health. It was perceived that globalization was putting the social cohesiveness of many countries under stress and that the health systems as key constituents of our contemporary societies were clearly not performing as well as they could and should.

Oxfam is upgrading public health through safer access to sustainable and sufficient water sanitation and health services by supporting the development of appropriate pro-poor water and sanitation policies. One example of this is that Oxfam is providing clean water and hygiene kits to survivors of the mudslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Oxfam initially plans to help almost 2,000 households that are in concerns over the fact that there is continuous heavy rains, overcrowding and inadequate water and sanitation systems which will leave people extremely vulnerable to outbreaks of cholera and other diseases. Sustainable Development Goal 3 Good Health and Wellbeing: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages aims to promote the

To be more impact full to this project the authority must involve more privet citizen and Privet Company’s to make sure the success of MDG and should not just leave it to the government only.

Throughout this article, Tom Risen discusses the objectives set by the United Nations to end extreme poverty and World Hunger. The objectives set by the United Nations were known as the Millennium Development Goals and most of the goals were achieved throughout the reform. The United Nations set formidable goals to diminish global poverty and hunger by 2015. While the project successfully cut World Hunger into a small percentage and poverty in half, the multinational groups were conflicted about how much developing regions such as sub-Saharan Africa can enhance by the year 2030. The campaign was also able to help reduce the death of children under the age of five by vaccination efforts against measles. Mr. Risen additionally describes how the

The MDG has provided the world with better ways to meet human needs and requirements of economic transformation, while protecting human rights, ensuring peace, and realizing human rights. Along with the many accomplishments that the MDG has achieved so far I think the two achievements that are most striking are, the amount of people that have gained access to piped drinking water, 2.3 billion in 1990 and increased to 4.2 billion in 2015. The MDG has allowed countries to have access to improved sanitation and drinking water. Another achievement that stood out to me in the overview is that in Northern Africa pregnant women received four or more antenatal visits, which increased from 50 percent to 89 percent between 1990 and 2014. This is drastic

In 2000, United Nations announced the Millennium Declaration for global development and committed to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 (United Nations, 2000). Over the past 15 years, by reviewing and reflecting the failures and success of these ambitious goals (Childs, 2015), the debate about international giving continues. To support the stance about “the U.S. government and NGOs should stop aiding more to foreign countries,” this memo will briefly indicate this stand. In order to be well prepared for our debate, this note could provide a brief outline for this point of view.

Failure in development is a lack of sustained periods of economic growth and stability, and an increased dependence on foreign aid. For example, forty five per cent of people in Sub-Saharan Africa still continue to live in poverty (About Sub-Saharan Africa). Secondly, the inability to meet eight of the Millennium Development Goals constitutes a failure in promoting development within the last fifteen years (The Millennium Development Goals 2014). Furthermore, World Bank prescriptions have not promoted sustained growth independent of foreign involvement by “[raising] Southern output” (Mosley 1949). The World Bank’s “measured ability to trigger sustained growth in developing countries has been poor […] particularly […] in the poorest countries” (1951). This disparity in flow of investments to developing

Economic growth is the most powerful instrument for reducing poverty and improving the quality of life in developing countries by creating jobs, transforming society and driving human development. As trade goes on, economic globalization introduces new companies to another and increases employment across the globe. When people have a job, they have a relatively stable income, and thus become better off than before. One key of UN Millennium Goals is to halve the proportion of people living under the international poverty line of $1.25 per day by 2015 from its 1990 level. Thanks to the amazing speed of economic globalization, this prime target of the Millennium Development Goals was achieved around 2008, seven years earlier than planned (Chandy and Gertz). It is more surprising that only the six years from 2005 to 2011 would likely reduce half a million of people in poverty while the same feat had taken 25 years up to 2005. Needless to say, the speed continues to increase. Economic globalization is never simply a notion suggesting theoretical benefits in textbook, but has been making great actual progress in the recent decades.

This essay aims to investigate two distinct solutions to increase the life expectancy in the developing countries.Life expectancy is the number of years in average that a person is expected to live depending on the conditions he\she is born into. Life expectancy varies from country to country; the developing world tends to have a low life expectancy due to lack of health, clean water and economic conditions. The countries that consist of low life expectancy are majorly the Sub Sahara Africa nations. Therefore, the expected years in which a person may live based on the socio-economic condition of the country itself, such as enough health care, accessibility to clean\safe water and education. Moreover, in 2000 the United Nations created the Millennium Development Goals, which consisted of eight goals; “eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV\AIDS, environmental sustainability and global partnership for development”. However, low life expectancy issues majorly focus on child mortality, poverty and education.

Imagine being given the momentous challenge to make the world a better place. This is a near impossible challenge for an entire world of people, let alone one person. Now imagine having $75 billon to do it. I bet this challenge, given to us by Professor Bjørn Lamborg in his book How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, is looking a bit more plausible Once given the tools to change the world, the next step is to figure out where and how to spend it. Deciding on only one project or program to fund in hopes that it will change the world would be unrealistic but through a process of research and thorough thinking, a list can be narrowed down to a smaller number of top choices. An example of this would be the United Nations’ (UN’s) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs consists of eight different goals, that if completed would change the world tremendously, and in turn make the world a better place. Of these eight goals the one I found the most plausible to change the world, and continue changing it once completed, was the second goal: To achieve universal primary education by the year 2015. Although universal education was one of the many goals that was not completed by 2015, the UN decided to continue striving for its completion by 2030 with the help of the UN’s Sustainable Development goals (SDGs).

(WHO 1998, 8, 11-12). WHO’s Millennium summit in 2000 produced the Millennium Declaration, series of collective priorities for peace and security, poverty reduction, the environment and human rights. These Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) are global but specifically targeted for the developing countries. (WHO 2013b).

The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of global agendas set by the United Nations to be achieved by the year 2030. They are a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals, which were framed through the Millennium Deceleration in 2000 to address the needs of the world poor (1). The Millennium Development goals included a set of eight easily stated goals with 21 targets and 48 indicators to measure progress (1). Amongst them- reducing child mortality (MDG 4), improving maternal health (MDG 5) and combating HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)- were specifically aimed at improving health (2). This approach provided a clear and focused direction for many of the stakeholders, to work on realizing these goals. The SDGs, on the other hand, are longer with 17 Goals and 126 targets (3). Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs contain one cohesive health goal (SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages), with 9 specific targets and 4 means of implementation within the targets (4) . There is criticism claiming that a switch from three to one goal would reduce the global focus on health. I argue that a simplified SDG goal is sufficient because it builds upon, and strengthens the template set-up in the MDGs. Furthermore, the four proposed ways of implementation to achieve these targets further reinforces the objective (1). Thus, if the work that has been laid out in the MDG era continues with a sustained focus, there is no reason why the priority

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