To what extent have the Millennium Development Goals been a success?
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Introduction The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a comprehensive framework through which the society can address pressing issues of poverty. The MDGs are made up of eight major objectives, which are all related to global development. In 2000, 189 world leaders signed a Millennium Declaration. The leaders set 2015 as the deadline for achieving the set MDGs. There has been a mixed result of the progress towards attaining these goals. One of the major achievements has been achieved is that there has been a major reduction of people living in extreme poverty.
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Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa exhibit the greatest percentage of inequality.
Hunger
It is believed that the percentage of underweight children below the age of five years decreased by one-fifth across the world. This was largely attributed to nutritional advances in East Asia and China, which have already surpassed the target set by MDG. Latin America, Middle East and the Caribbean have also made some substantial progress towards attaining this goal. However, the goal of reducing the number of people suffering from hunger by half is unlikely to be attained globally unless there will be improvements in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Achieve Universal Primary Education The major goal of MDG is to ensure that by 2015, both boys and girls are able to complete full primary courses across the globe. Notably, the net enrollment of children has significantly increased from 80% in 1990 to 88% in 2005. Most of this happened after 1999. Although the sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest percentage of enrollment, there has been significant progress since 1999. Children from rural areas and poor families have the largest percentage of children who are unlikely to join primary school. On the other hand, girls form the greatest percentage of children not likely to enroll in primary school is at 57% (United Nations, 2006, p. 3).
Promote Gender Equality and Empower
Due to the fact that almost 13% of children in the world are affected by malnutrition, the UN has taken many actions in attempting to prevent malnutrition in children around the world. The UN has raised over 4 billion dollars and created UNICEF to help improve nutrition in children and mothers all around the world. UNICEF has promised to keep on contributing large amounts of money to help support countries with high rates of malnutrition. UNICEF and many other UN organizations welcomed the “Global Nutrition for Growth Compact” and it’s goal is to help improve nutrition around the world. Also the FAO has been making many improvements to help increase nutrition in children and mothers. Also the UN created the SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition) Movement has raised lots of awareness about malnutrition. At the event, UNICEF pledged to continue its own investment in strengthening nutrition in countries worst-affected by stunting and other forms of undernutrition – an investment represented by more than 350 nutrition experts working with governments and local communities in some 65 countries, backed by a financial contribution that has seen around $1 billion spent by UNICEF on improving nutrition over the last five years. UNICEF was among several United Nations agencies welcoming the formal Global Nutrition for Growth Compact agreed by participants that
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, illuminates the essential rights that all children have. According to the Convention, each child has the privilege of education, it is the state 's obligation to guarantee that essential education is free and necessary, to allow distinctive types of secondary training, including general and professional training and to make them open to each child and to make advanced education accessible (United Nations, 1990). But as indicated by UNICEF, an expected 93 million kids on the planet don 't get the chance to go to school, the majority whom are girls. A large part of these children are poor and their families can 't stand to send them to school. They should work to help their families survive. Others, for the most part, young girls don 't go to school since they need to help at home. However, without an education, children and families are forced to lead an existence in poverty (UNICEF, 2015).
Although many of the people suffering from hunger live in developing regions, poor nutrition remains a global
This also presents the needs of the children. Lack of nutrition in early childhood places children at high risk of developing obesity when food and physical activity arrangements concur. Many countries now face the strain of hunger in all its categories, with rising rates of childhood obesity as well as high rates of child nutrition. Childhood obesity is often secluded as a public health issue in these ambient times, where culturally, an overweight child is considered to be healthy. In high-income countries, the risks of childhood obesity are considerable in low socioeconomic groups. Although presently the results show to be true in low and middle income countries, a changing pattern is emerging. In large scale countries, certain population subgroups, such as migrant and indigenous children, are at exceptionally high
The UN SDGs are a universal call to improve quality of life for everyone. There are 17 goals which provides guidelines for all countries to make choices that will improve the lives of their citizens in a sustainable way by reducing poverty, climate change, disaster risk, inequality, and encouraging peacebuilding.
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 proportion of children who are enrolled in primary schools has increased from 49% to 77% in the past decade in sub-Saharan Africa. This increase in enrollment is due mostly to the initiative of the governments from these regions to improve universal primary education. However, much remains to be done because even though enrollment has been made a possibility in a lot of these countries, there are a lot of other variables at play that still prevent children from receiving a quality education. Things such as poverty, cultural traditions, gender violence, and the incidence of early marriage are a major reason for disadvantaged groups, particularly poor girls, not making as much progress in enrolling
Children from under developed countries often suffer with malnutrition, which plays a major role in inhibiting their growth and development progress.
Approximately 75 million children around the world have no opportunity to attend primary school. Of the 75 million, most of them are girls due to tradition or parents that hold them back from attending ("Main Navigation"). Other factors that affect children from going to school is because of conflicts and wars that result in schools to be destroyed and families to flee the country. Lack of education is a growing crisis due to many factors in developing countries but it has the power pull a country out of poverty and make them economically stable and attract other countries to trade, therefore it should be seen as a priority. Developed countries are involved to help countries increase their education because every child should have the
Certain attributes such as ethnic or religious eating habits or economic necessity by the parents are some of the main reasons we see that children in third world countries suffer from malnutrition (Piercecchi-Marti, M. 2006). Many children in third world countries are born into lower class families who's parents are not able to provide enough food for their children. Due to this, researchers find that malnutrition is more prone to areas of
The state of education in Sub-Saharan Africa is in crisis. UNICEF (2013) research has shown that 40 million children in Africa currently do not attend school. The enrollment figures indicate that there are fewer educational opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa than in the five countries in the northern part of the continent. More than 100 million children of primary school age do not attend school worldwide, of which a vast majority of these children are in sub-Saharan Africa (UNICEF, 2013). However, the research also shows that even if these children could attend school, the existing schools are not equipped to provide for them (Samhoff, 2003). Rampant poverty, economic turmoil, and disease have taken over the sub-Saharan countries.
They are (1) Eradicated extreme hunger and poverty, (2) Achieve universal primary education, (3) Promote gender equality and empower women, (4) Reduce child mortality, (5) Improve maternal health, (6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, (7) Ensure environmental sustainability, and (8) Develop a global partnership for development. The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for Sierra Leone has made progress, but will not achieve all of them by end of this year. Sierra Leone’s MDG’s are a challenge to achieve because of poor infrastructure, lack of reliable electricity supply and weakness in social services delivery. There is also corruption in the government, which is very inefficient to civil service. The MDG’s are believed to be achieved 10% per annum range; it is a slow progress because of the factors mentioned above (Millennium Development Goals Progress Report 2010,
While “Peru has made tremendous strides economically and in the fight against hunger”, one in five children remains hungry (Albis). These improvements have led the World Bank to reclassify them as an “upper-middle income economy” (World Bank). The upper-middle income country, which has enjoyed economic growth in recent decades, maintains high levels of inequality. Seven million people (22.7 percent of the population) live in poverty, and more than a million (4.3 percent) in extreme poverty, which is most prevalent in rural communities (UNICEF). Although chronic child malnutrition fell to 14.5 percent in 2015, anemia rates have experienced an upward trend since 2011, affecting 46 percent of children under three (World Health Organization). It is assessed that roughly “7.1 million
Education is considered as the critical software for development as it shapes the destiny for every society. Currently the initiative is driven by the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of Education for All. The MDG’s with direct reference to women education are Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education and Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women. This means that everybody in the society should be given a chance to attend school, women included (Anne Syomwene , 2015)
examples all over the world, especially in Africa. The MDGs were unable to be met