The Millennium Declaration Goals 2000, In which the world 189 part nations unanimously consented to help the poor nations of the world to attain a finer life before the end of year 2015. In this Millennium Declaration, It was chosen by the world pioneers to outline a system for advancement embodying eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s):
1. Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achievement of universal primary education
3. Promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women,
4. Reduction of child mortality
5. Improvement in maternal health
6. Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases,
7. Ensuring environmental sustainability and
8. Develop a global partnership for development.
The accomplishing focus of these objectives is until 2015. Subsequently such advancement methodologies are critical to meet these objectives.
Poverty is serious problem in Northern Nigerian States. The Federal Government of Nigeria initiated different programmes to address the issue of poverty. These programmes are there to reduce poverty, eradicate hunger and improve the living conditions of the people. All the programmes aim at reducing the poverty in country including the poorest states of Northern Nigeria. However, despites the efforts of these programmes by successive government and huge budgeting attached to the programmes, people in the north are still living in absolute poverty. The poorest states in northern Nigeria lack the basic necessities such as primary
One thing that can be done to reduce poverty in Nigeria is educating children while they are young so they can have a future instead of growing into poverty. This can be done by the help of the government and local communities. They are the ones that must ensure that there is improved access to both adults and the younger generations. Another thing that the government can do to reduce poverty in nigeria is to let citizens use the environment and natural resources to make profit. Nigeria is blessed with their abundance of natural resources so citizens should be able to use this to make money, they are not called the “Giant of Africa” for no reason. Lastly, More social movements that donate money and and make people aware of poverty in Nigeria should be made. If celebrities come together and fight for a cause, surely their followers will join in and try to help as much as possible which will make a huge difference in the country of Nigeria. These are some possible solution to reduce the poverty rate in
Poverty is one of the society’s most difficult problems to overcome. Even in the United States has abject poverty in every city. On average, 40 to 50% of sub-Saharan Africans live below the poverty line. This is a higher proportion than in any other region except South Asia stated (World Bank, 1996a). The effects of poverty in Africa are poor education, diseases, and overpopulation.
A governor is able to own a six-thousand square foot home fully equipped with multiple security guards, a swimming pool, and far more rooms than needed. Meanwhile, in a neighboring town just miles away is poverty stricken land where someone calls home. It is surrounded by trash, with little food to eat, as the stench of sewage from the local city coats the air. This scenario is foreign to people living in the United States. That is simply because this is a problem prevalent to ones living in Nigeria, West Africa. For decades, Nigeria has been infamously known for the non-progressive gap between the categorization of who is considered to be either wealthy or who is labeled as impoverished. It is a country filled with an abundance of resources, and in spite of this, Nigeria’s poverty rate continues to struggle. The leading factors currently contributing to the growing poverty rate in Nigeria are due to the lack of proper education, the increasing population, and corruption within the government.
The current socioeconomics for Nigeria are extreme poverty and it is estimated around 62% of it current population live below its poverty line, which equates to under $1 day a day (Nigerian Millennium Development Goals, 2015). Nigeria’s gross domestic product per capita in 2015 is estimated at $6,400, and its unemployment rate in was estimated at 23.9% in 2011(Central Intelligence Agency, 2016).
The MDGs are considered an anti-poverty and a vehicle to communicate and promote the objective of ending global poverty since they refer directly to concrete human conditions which people can empathize with, they have quantified time-bound targets that can be monitored, and comprised of a short list of only eight goals (Fukuda-Parr & Hulme, 2011). Furthermore, Fukuda-Parr and Greenstein (2011) argue that MDGs are norms since they were adopted through a norm-setting process agreed upon by the 189 nations as well as numerical targets that make the objectives actionable. On the other hand, the MDGs have been greatly criticized for lagging behind in human rights priorities which in include the following: “omission of principles of equality and participation that is a cross-cutting principle of all human rights, scope that does not reflect the full scope of
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
The Millennium Development Goals represent a commitment by all nations and institutions to eliminate global poverty. The MDGs need to be emphasized and implemented at all stages and their success is highly dependent on financing the project. The UN Millennium Project is centered on the belief that .7 percent of rich countries' GNP can provide enough resources to meet the goals. If every developed country followed through with a timetable to reach the necessary target by 2015, the world could make dramatic progress in the fight against extreme poverty. At the Monterrey Consensus a statement was made by the United States: "we urge developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts towards the target of .7 percent of GNP " (Sachs 338). This statement shows that the US is beginning to take leadership in the efforts to meet the MDGs; however, it seems that we are pointing fingers and not taking the proper action ourselves. In 2004 our government only provided .14 percent of the GNP, which is well below the target.
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.
Compare the eight-millennium goals to a body. The heart is the epicenter for everything else that goes on in the body. Millennium Development Goal number three is the heart of this body. It is critical to the survival of the additional seven goals provided by the United Nations. The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger is impossible to attain without the equality of the sexes. If gender equality were achieved in its full capacity the economic world
According to GLSS 6, a quarter of Ghanaians are poor whilst under a tenth of the population are in extreme poverty. In spite of the fact that the level of extreme poverty is relatively low, it is concentrated in rural savannah, with more than a quarter of the people making up this category. Overall, the dynamics of poverty in Ghana over the years is predominantly a rural phenomenon. Five out of the ten regions have poverty rates lower than the national average of 24.2% whiles the remaining half have rates higher than the national average. Greater Accra is the least poorest region and the Upper West the poorest overall. Though most regions show a reduction in poverty incidence since 2005/06, the pattern of poverty by region remains the same.
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.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established in 2000 to determine, focus on and put into action steps that will fight eight key areas to help underdeveloped countries. The eight targeted areas which are poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, disease, the environment and global partnership place attention on areas that will help the improvement and betterment of underdeveloped countries.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established in 2000 to determine, focus on and put into action steps that will fight eight key areas to help underdeveloped countries. The eight targeted areas which are poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, disease, the environment and global partnership place attention on areas that will help the improvement and betterment of underdeveloped countries.
Aside from the MDGs being the first comprehensively outlined global development goals that were agreed by UN member states, the fact that they provide specific indicators illustrate that the MDGs are able to provide the initial frameworks for developing countries to achieve development objectives deemed as important by setting specific goals and targeted indicators which statutory countries have pledged to fulfil by the end of 2015. The multi-dimensional nature of what consist of development as outlined in the MDGs will also enable us to incorporate a more holistic view of development, as opposed to the traditional interpretation of development that almost exclusively refers to economic progress.