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MDGs and Pakistan Progress

This document discusses the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which were established in 2000 and aimed to be achieved by 2015. It outlines the 8 main goals which focused on issues like poverty, education, gender equality, health, and environmental sustainability. The document then reviews the progress made towards each goal globally and for Pakistan specifically. It acknowledges both the challenges Pakistan faced in achieving the MDGs, such as natural disasters and political instability, but also the opportunities, like provinces now having a stronger commitment following decentralization and developing local plans to achieve the goals.

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MDGs and Pakistan Progress

This document discusses the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which were established in 2000 and aimed to be achieved by 2015. It outlines the 8 main goals which focused on issues like poverty, education, gender equality, health, and environmental sustainability. The document then reviews the progress made towards each goal globally and for Pakistan specifically. It acknowledges both the challenges Pakistan faced in achieving the MDGs, such as natural disasters and political instability, but also the opportunities, like provinces now having a stronger commitment following decentralization and developing local plans to achieve the goals.

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Millennium Development

Goals
Dr Tariq ur Rehman
IPH & SS, Khyber Medical University

Learning Objective

Introduction

What are the UN Millennium Development Goals ?


What progress has been made ?
Progress of MDGs in Pakistan
Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving MDGs

Introduction
In September 2000, one hundred and eighty-nine
189 UN member-countries came together at
United Nations Headquarters in New York to adopt
the United Nations Millennium Declaration and
committed their nations to a new global
partnership to promote development through a
series of time-bound goals - with a deadline of
2015.
In total, 8 goals were established, which have
become known as the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs).

Millennium Development
Goals

MD Goal No. 1

1. Reduce by half the proportion of people


living on less than a dollar a day.
2. Achieve full and productive employment
and decent work for all, including women
and young people.
3. Reduce by half the proportion of people
who suffer from hunger

MD Goal No. 2

1. Ensure that all boys and girls complete


a full course of primary schooling.

MD Goal No. 3

1. Eliminate gender disparity in primary


and secondary education preferably
by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

MD Goal No. 4

1. Reduce by two thirds the


mortality rate among children
under five

MD Goal No. 5

1. Reduce by three quarters the


maternal mortality ratio.
2. Achieve, by 2015, universal
access to reproductive health.

MD Goal No. 6

1. Halt and begin to reverse the


spread of HIV/AIDS.
2. Achieve, by 2010, universal
access to treatment for
HIV/AIDS for all those who need
it.
3. Halt and begin to reverse the
incidence of malaria and other
major diseases

MD Goal No. 7
1. Integrate the principles of
sustainable development into
country policies and programs;
reverse loss of environmental
resources.
2. Target 7b: Reduce biodiversity loss,
achieving, by 2010
3. Reduce by half the proportion of
people without sustainable access to
safe drinking water and basic
sanitation.
4. Achieve significant improvement in
lives of at least 100 million slum
dwellers, by 2020

MD Goal No. 8
1. Develop further an open, rule-based,
predictable, non-discriminatory
trading and financial system.
2. Address the special needs of the least
developed countries.
3. Address the special needs of
landlocked developing countries and
small island developing States.*

4. Deal comprehensively with the debt


problems of developing countries
through national and international
measures in order to make debt
sustainable in the long term.
5. In cooperation with pharmaceutical
companies, provide access to
affordable essential drugs in
developing countries.
6. In cooperation with the private
sector, make available the benefits
of new technologies, especially
information and communications

What progress has been made ?

The Millennium Development Goals


Report 2014

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme


poverty and hunger

Goal 2: Achieve universal


primary education

Goal 3: Promote gender


equality and empower women

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria


and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental


sustainability

Goal 8: Develop global


partnerships for development

Progress of MDGs in Pakistan..

Pakistan Millennium Development Goals


Report 2013

Challenges and Opportunities in


Achieving MDGs
Pakistans attempts to achieve the MDGs, cannot be
appreciated or evaluated meaningfully without
understanding the roadblocks experienced by the
country in the last 14 years.
These are natural disasters, man-made conflicts,
institutional, administrative and political changes, lack
of awareness, weak commitments to hardcore structural
economic reforms, fading commitments by
development partners due to the global economic crisis
of 2007, and belated localization and ownership of the
MDG agenda at sub-national level.

Cont.

With 18th Amendment before the end of the MDG period, the provinces
began to develop a strong commitment to achieve the education and
health related MDGs. The MDG Acceleration Framework being finalized
by the provinces to achieve UPE by 2016 will be a test case to show the
commitment of the provinces to the MDGs and the post-2015 Agenda..

Reference:
http://www.undp.org.ph/
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014
Pakistan Millennium Development Goals Report 2013

Thank you

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