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Millennium Goals: Down the pan?

Five years ago, world leaders vowed to halve the proportion of people in the world without access to safe drinking water and basic, hygienic toilet facilities. But the "un-sexiness" of sanitation, its lack of donor-appeal, is one of the reasons why Norway's Minister for International Development calls this one the "neglected Millennium Goal." (Richard Black, BBC, 15 September 2005)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4248082.stm

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Women Matter - In All of the Millennium Goals

In order to advance towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), gender equality cannot merely be limited to a number of specific objectives, but must be the lens through which all the targets are viewed, say experts and representatives of women's movements in Argentina. (Marcela Valente, 21 August 2006, IPS)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34412

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Assuring development gains and poverty reduction from trade: the labour mobility and skills trade dimension [pdf]

This study examines the impact of global labor movement on trade, development and poverty reduction and asks how temporary labor mobility can be better managed to improve people's lives and to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.(UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),March 2008)

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Download.asp?docid=9685&lang=1&intItemID=2068

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Education for All by 2015: Will we make it?

This sixth edition of the EFA Global Monitoring Report assesses the extent to which the Millennium Development Goals in Education are being met (UNESCO, 2007).

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001547/154743e.pdf

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Health and the Millennium Development Goals

WHO, 2005. The report, Health and the Millennium Development Goals, presents data on progress on the health goals and targets and looks beyond the numbers to analyse why improvements in health have been slow and to suggest what must be done to change this. The report points to weak and inequitable health systems as a key obstacle, including particularly a crisis in health personnel and the urgent need for sustainable health financing. Building up and strengthening health systems is vital if more progress is to be made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report. Unless urgent investments are made in health systems, current rates of progress will not be sufficient to meet most of the Goals.

http://www.who.int/mdg/publications/mdg_report/en/index.html

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How costly is it to achieve the Milennium Development Goal of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015?

This technical working paper proposes a methodology to estimate required growth rates, investment rated and per capita foreign aid in order to achieve the MDG goal of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015. The methodology gives a linkage between costs of MDG, growth, poverty, and inequality. The study takes into account the distributional aspect to derive the estimates of the projected growth and investment rates required for the next 10 years from 2005 tor each the MDG poverty reduction target. This has been done through simulating differenc growth scenarios: anti-poor, distribution neutral, and pro-poor. The methodology is applied to the 15 sub-Saharan countries: Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia. (Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son, International Poverty Centre, United Nations Development Programme, May 2006)

http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/newsletters/WorkingPaper19.pdf

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Meeting the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target: A mid-term assessment of progress

World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund, 2004. In adopting the Millennium Development Goals, the countries of the world pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The results so far are mixed. With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, the world is well on its way to meeting the drinking water target by 2015, but progress in sanitation is stalled in many developing regions. This report, produced by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), provides the latest estimates and trends on where we stand today. The JMP's estimates are critical for calculating rates of progress towards national goals and for highlighting priorities, especially those that target the underserved. For those countries in which progress has been slow, the report's finding should provide an incentive to accelerate action in the crucial years ahead. For countries 'on track', they should remind us that our work is not finished until every citizen is served.

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/en/jmp04.pdf

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Meeting the Millennium Development Goals for Urban Dwellers [PDF 367K]

IIED Series Working Paper 16, by Celine d'Cruz and David Satterthwaite, 2005. This paper is about the current and potential role of what the UN term 'slum dwellers'1 and their own organizations in achieving a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers and thus in contributing to Target 11 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ... This paper describes and discusses the ways and means by which slum dwellers and their organizations seek to get 'significant' improvements in their lives, working with governments and all other external agencies (including local and international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral international agencies and the commercial private sector). Most of its examples are drawn from nations where urban poor and homeless groups have developed their own organizations and federations and their own poverty reduction programmes, drawing on their own resources and capacities and negotiating with local and national government and international agencies for support (and for changes in policies or practices that harm them).

http://eau.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/17/1/3

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Rewrite the Future: Education for children in conflict-affected countries [pdf]

No child should have to pay the price for adults' wars, but increasingly they do. Millions of children are killed, millions more are injured, and millions spend their entire childhood in camps and other temporary shelters. Children cannot wait for conflict to end before we begin to address their educational needs. It is shameful that, in 2006, there are still 115 million children around the world who are denied their right to primary education. It is even more disturbing that one-third of these children are being kept out of school because of the effects of conflict. This report is part of Save the Children's five-year Rewrite the Future education initiative, which seeks to help millions of children in conflict-affected areas gain access to and reap the current and future benefits of a quality education. (International Save the Children Alliance, 2006)

http://www.savethechildren.org/rewrite-the-future/RewritetheFuture-PolicyReport.pdf

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The cost of making the poor pay

This article written by Jeffrey D. Sachs Awash Teklehaimanot and Gordon McCord of the UN Millennium Development Project, recommends practical strategies to reduce the number of people who die from malaria-currently about 3 million per year The authors recommend an integrated package of preventive and treatment methods to help achieve UN Millennium Goal of tackling the health problems of the world's poor.

http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=4&item=Opinions&itemid=442&language=1

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The Health, Nutrition & Population Millennium Development Goals Country Data Sheets

This World Bank webpage provides country data sheets for relating to the Health, Nutrition and Population Millennium Development Goals.

http://www1.worldbank.org/hnp/MDG/mdg_data.asp

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