Improving Health, Education, And The Environment

~ Today the bank functions as an international organization that attempts to fight poverty by offering developmental assistance to middle and poor-income countries. By giving loans, and offering advice and training in both the private and public sectors, the World Bank aims to eliminate poverty by helping people

SDGs Goal Number 1 is “End poverty in all it forms everywhere.” Although the number of poverty is decreasing by more than half in the reign of MDGs, there are still 1.2 billion people living in poverty. More than 800 people still living on less than $1.25 per day. The biggest percentage of poverty is in countries in the South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by 80% of global total in extreme poverty. Rapid economic growth countries (example: India and China) have made many people out of poverty but the progress also didn’t reach the maximum.

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

The UN came up with an incredible idea in order to combat long term global issues in the world. Kurtzleben states, “By 2015, they vowed, countries would meet broad, measurable objectives — which would become the…Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — designed to, among other things, eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, promote gender equality, achieve universal primary education and fight HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases.” As seen, poverty is the first thing she mentions.

UNICEF has set Millenium development goals, which 189 countries have signed in September 2000. The goals reveal the extent importance of UNICEF’s work. First goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger meaning in practice that the amount of people living less than one dollar per day or suffer for hunger should halve between 1990 and 2015. Furthermore, primary education should be ensured for all children, also for girls. Child mortality and maternal health are also primary goals of UNICEF. There are also set goals to combat AIDS/HIV, malaria and other diseases, to ensure environmental sustainability and to develop global partnership for development. All of the Millenium goals concerns basic needs of life; food, health, income and education. The amount of people who do not have these is devastating. It cannot be denied that UNICEF’s work is

According to the United Nations The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving extreme poverty by the end of 2015 has been met, as the proportion of people living on less than USD 1.25 (purchasing power parity) per day (the extreme poverty line for 2005) in developing regions fell by more than half from 1990 to 2010

In October 2000, the International Development Goals were articulated as the MDGs in a joint report by the UN, OECD, World Bank and the IMF (Saith, 2006; Sen G & Mukherjee A, 2014), which composed of 8 goals accompanied by 21 targets and 60 indicators in order to measure progress towards the achievement of each of those goals (Johnson R, 2010). These goals and their related targets and indicators dominated international development discourse as the standard for development by various international organisations (Sen G & Mukherjee A, 2013; S. Fukuda-Parr, 2016), as they were aimed to improve the living conditions, peace and security, the environment, and human rights and democracy, eradicate poverty and global imbalances by 2015. The breadth and depth of the Declaration necessarily meant choosing a few set of goals, targets and indicators to guide policies and monitor outcomes. However, some scholars like (Langford, 2010; Amin, 2006; Sen, 2013 and Saith, 2006), argue that the set of goals are reductionist, simplistic and do not do justice to the Millennium Declaration.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.

This report focuses upon the operations of UNDAF and the assistance that it is providing to the countries in order to help them achieve national development goals. UNDAF presents a great opportunity for the nations to come together and build a coherent association with the UN system to address various issues pertaining to the field of development assistance. With this framework, different UN organizations can associate with the government of the nations to nurture the effectiveness. “Deliver as one” focuses on the outcomes of the contribution through reforms in order to set up a unified UN country team with one programme, one leader, one budget, one office framework. Though there are constraints related to the resource

At the start of the millennium, various United Nations (UN) partners came together to tackle some of the world’s deadliest and most pressing social and economic problems, and in doing so, established the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the past 15 years, the MDGs have been evaluated and re-evaluated. This year the UN has declared a new set of 17 goals for the next 15 years called the Sustainable Development Goals. The first issue on both agendas is the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, a problem that is specifically significant for the entire continent of Africa.

efore zeroing in on the World Bank Cambodia Sub-project, a quick review of the World Bank Group (WBG), vis-a-vis its structure, mission’s statement, and criticisms would critical in analysing the project.

Considering the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) faced major criticism, the pressure lies on the post-2015 development goals to provide a new and efficient set of criteria for global development. The MDGs were perceived as limited and incomplete, and while there is a more extensive list of SGDs, they remain vague. Once gain the goals are high achieving and unattainable within a 15 year span. Although the world has succeeded in significantly reducing poverty, since the creation of the Millennium Development goals, the world remains a highly unequal place on many levels. The global goals seem to be put in place simply as guidelines in that they are announced world-wide to gain uniformity in our development priorities however actually attaining them is not expected. To put things into perspective, the fight to mediate issues such as the right for women to vote, social equality for people of colour and same-sex marriage took decades to accomplish and at that, the cases are not perfect. These are issues that do not require resources such as food or infrastructure to resolve. By contrast, the SDGs comprise a range of issues that require technology, natural resources, money, infrastructure, and more to be resolved.

MDGs for poverty and hunger are looking for decreases by half between 1990 and 2015 in the amount of people in underdeveloped countries who has an income of fewer than $1 per day (UN Department of Public Health, 2010). Additionally, between the same timeframe, goals are set to decrease by half the amount of people who experience and suffer from hungriness (UN Department of Public Health, 2010). These goals were put into place in 2000, reviewed in 2015 and an updated plan to target these goals were set for 2020 (United Nations, 2015). Even though many countries are a part of the MDGs, practical and reasonable goals and objectives can be met with great emphasis, attention and action. The MDGs, even though, all goals and objectives are different, they literally all

The World Bank is an international organization affiliated with the United Nations with the purpose of financing projects that improve the economic development of its members. The World Bank is headquartered in Washington D.C and it is the main source of financial assistance to developing nations. The Bank also provides technical support as well as policy advice and oversight on behalf of international creditors in the implementation of free-market reforms in developing countries. Along with the IMF and the WTO, the Bank plays an important role in the establishment of economic reforms in public institutions in the developing world an it also has the function of setting the global economic agenda (Chossudovsky, 2017).

The Millennium Development Goals are a blueprint that was agreed on by the nations of the world to meet the needs of the world’s poor and are to be achieved by 2015. They are to eliminate poverty globally in all its forms. These goals are continually checked through their indicators that determine how much progress has been made. Reports have been done to keep track of progress. The United Nations partners with many agencies, governments, donors and regional commissions in the achievement of the millennium development goals. These include the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Monetary fund, World Health Organization and International Labour Organization among others.