Henry Ekwuruke
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Confronting Gender Challenges to MDGs Achievement
April 11, 2007 - 09:30 AM
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To reach key development objectives by 2015,
women's equality and fragile states need to receive concerted attention and the
international community must scale up strategies for reaching the eight
Millennium Development Goals. While progress on the first goal of halving
poverty is on track everywhere except in Sub-Saharan Africa, efforts to attain
goals related to child mortality, disease reduction, and environmental
sustainability are falling short.
The 2007 Global Monitoring Report: Confronting the Challenges of Gender
Equality and Fragile States on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) assesses
the contributions of developing countries, developed countries, and
international financial institutions (IFIs) toward meeting universally agreed
development commitments. The goals, which call for halving between 1990 and
2015 the proportion of the people living on less than US$1 a day, achieving
universal primary education, reducing infant and maternal mortality, and
ensuring environmental sustainability, among others, were approved by 189 world
leaders in 2000. What do you think?
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