• Sustainable Development Goals and Lebanon explains major contributions launched in Lebanon towards the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and the 2030 agenda. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this 2030 Agenda, 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were listed to act as a guided path for the upcoming 15 years to make the world a better place for anyone, anywhere. (wikipedia.org)
  • In September 2015, United Nations members agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will guide development efforts until 2030. (adb.org)
  • In 2015, all countries of the world agreed to adopt the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (adb.org)
  • At the UN summit in September 2015 the United Nations have officially announced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (basf.com)
  • We support the United Nations in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which create the framework for sustainable business practices at the economic, social and environmental levels. (basf.com)
  • Fight poverty and hunger, water availability, and topics such as energy and climate change: The 17 universal and overarching SDGs succeed the UN Millennium Development Goals that have been adopted by then 189 UN member states in the year 2000. (basf.com)
  • UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 2014 (IPS) - The United Nations is on the verge of releasing a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - perhaps 17 or more - to replace the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which will run out by the end of 2015. (ipsnews.net)
  • The proposed new SDGs, which will make amends for the shortcomings of the MDGs, will be an integral part of the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda which, among other things, seeks to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger from the face of the earth by 2030. (ipsnews.net)
  • As the Geneva-based South Centre points out, "The SDGs should not be a set of goals for only developing countries to undertake as a kind of conditionality or new obligations. (ipsnews.net)
  • The following will assess the most recent agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (anera.org)
  • The SDGs, otherwise known as the Global Goals, developed over several years with input from civil society, governments, the private sector and academia. (anera.org)
  • The end result of the surveys, discussions and meetings were the SDGs - 17 goals spanning all aspects of development from poverty reduction and zero hunger to rule of law programs and infrastructure development. (undispatch.com)
  • The breadth of the SDGs goes far beyond what the MDGs envisioned, leaving room for developed countries to benefit from the goals as well. (undispatch.com)
  • While most people view development as what the global south can learn from the global north, the report highlights that there is plenty the developing world and can teach industrialized nations when it comes to poverty reduction, community outreach and responsible consumption - all goals enumerated under the SDGs. (undispatch.com)
  • What the MDGs, and now SDGs, demonstrate is that collaborating across seemingly disconnected fields can majorly improve the impact of programs. (undispatch.com)
  • The core of the Resolution consists of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 associated targets, and many more indicators. (conflictoflaws.net)
  • At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. (un.org)
  • At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document "The Future We Want" in which they decided, inter alia, to launch a process to develop a set of SDGs to build upon the MDGs and to establish the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development . (un.org)
  • In order to make the 2030 Agenda a reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must translate into a strong commitment by all stakeholders to implement the global goals. (un.org)
  • We argue that, despite the UN adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a framework for operationalising them in an integrated fashion is lacking. (bmj.com)
  • After extensive negotiation, broad support for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was achieved, and the commitment to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets came into effect in January 2016. (bmj.com)
  • By locating health and well-being as both preconditions and outcomes of sustainable development, this approach leads to the identification of health-related SDGs and synergies between health and well-being, and other goals within the SDGs by sector. (bmj.com)
  • The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in September 2015 to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), is the central UN platform for achieving 'integrated and indivisible' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across three dimensions: social, environmental and economic. (bmj.com)
  • Last year, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank Group released a joint report entitled "Transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs" which revealed these shortcomings and suggested ways to move forward as we try to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. (worldbank.org)
  • In this commentary, we outline family planning's links to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlight the transformational benefits that voluntary family planning brings to women, families, communities, and countries. (ghspjournal.org)
  • To some, it might seem odd that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) would be of relevance to the highly developed industrial nations that form the EU. (iwkoeln.de)
  • Its successor, the 17 SDGs, have a much broader reach in terms of goals and scope, and included highly developed countries and the EU as well. (iwkoeln.de)
  • Universitas Padjadjaran berkomitmen penuh mendukung agenda pembangunan global yang tertuang dalam konsep Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) atau pembangunan berkelanjutan. (unpad.ac.id)
  • Konsep SDGs merupakan kelanjutan dari konsep Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) yang telah terlebih dahulu dilaksanakan. (unpad.ac.id)
  • On January 1, 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit - officially came into force. (mcgill.ca)
  • The SDGs build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (mcgill.ca)
  • The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 169 targets defined by the United Nations (UN) will be presented for adoption at the organisation's New York summit in September. (copenhagenconsensus.com)
  • But the new SDGs, which will follow on from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), are not to everyone's taste. (copenhagenconsensus.com)
  • The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, came into effect in January 2016. (russellreynolds.com)
  • Now it is just around the corner, with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ready to be adopted in September. (chemonics.com)
  • With the structure of the SDGs now clear, the differences between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the SDGs are now apparent too. (chemonics.com)
  • For instance, the SDGs more than double of the number of goals and shift to a universal application of the framework to both North and South. (chemonics.com)
  • So now the resounding question facing us is: How do we do things differently to surpass the achievements made under the MDGs and actually reach the SDGs? (chemonics.com)
  • The country needs to tackle these problems to be able to significantly advance with the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) by the 2030 target date. (panafrican-med-journal.com)
  • Since the conclusion of the MDGs, countries have regrouped and pushed on into phase two: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (borgenproject.org)
  • The 193 UN member states have debated the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) over past three years and in coming days likely will commit to work toward achieving them by 2030. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • The SDGs replace the eight UN Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ), which included halving extreme poverty, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education by 2015. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • Much angst is being expressed over the fact that the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track. (19fortyfive.com)
  • The UN adopted the SDGs in 2015 as the successor to the expiring Millennium Development Goals. (19fortyfive.com)
  • The eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators of the MDGs are a model of modesty and focus compared to the 17 goals, 169 targets, and 231 indicators of the SDGs. (19fortyfive.com)
  • The SDGs are replete with imprecise goals and targets such as "substantially reduc[ing] corruption and bribery in all their forms. (19fortyfive.com)
  • Worse, as with the MDGs, the SDGs suffer from poor data quality and huge data gaps. (19fortyfive.com)
  • The SDGs provide a list of targets, with no clear priorities and no theory on how these goals can be attained. (19fortyfive.com)
  • Chief guest at the occasion, State Minister for Education Balighur Rehman said that in the past, the MDGs were not at the priority list of the governments, but the incumbent government has formulated the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (com.pk)
  • Attending such events would help us to explore our capabilities, particularly, such event would help me in research work for my MPhil," Muhsin claimed.While talking to Daily Times, Asiya Nasir said the purpose of the event was to review the MDGs and SDGs formulated by the government. (com.pk)
  • Photo : Bagus Prihantoro/detik.com Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) akan diintegrasikan dalam pembangunan nasional hingga daerah. (bappenas.go.id)
  • Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan (Sustainable Development Goals/SDGs) yang dicanangkan Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa berjalan satu tahun. (bappenas.go.id)
  • A new report warns that unchecked inequalities could jeopardize the sustainability of economies, societies and communities, undermining efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. (stwr.net)
  • The United Nations' 193 Member States adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015, an ambitious global undertaking to end poverty, address inequalities and tackle climate change over the next 15 years. (stwr.net)
  • The SDGs, which replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aim to improve lives, committing both rich and poor countries to achieve a series of interconnected goals, including the reduction of inequality. (stwr.net)
  • Goal 3 aims to "Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages", while health also cuts across the majority of the other SDGs. (who.int)
  • It also provides a brief account of the current status of the SDGs, with focus on Goal 3, and a way forward that includes harmonizing the targets of Goal 3 with existing WHO strategies and roadmaps. (who.int)
  • The SDGs build on the experience of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and complete the targets that were not achieved by 2015. (who.int)
  • In 2000, the United Nations General Assembly embraced the Millennium Declaration, setting eight worldwide targets - the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. (wikipedia.org)
  • The goals built on the earlier Millennium Development Goals that the United Nations established in 2000. (anera.org)
  • When the UN announced the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, the intended beneficiaries were clear. (undispatch.com)
  • The commitment made by the United Nations (UN) signatories to meet the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) in 2000 was undertaken globally, with important gender implications and consequences for country populations. (agenda.org.za)
  • In 2000, representatives from 189 United Nations Member States endorsed 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015, and affirmed their collective commitment to poverty reduction and improved quality of life. (ghspjournal.org)
  • These 17 goals build on the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were set by the United Nations in 2000 and expired in 2015. (russellreynolds.com)
  • In 2000, the Bolivarian government of Venezuela embraced the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to achieve a better standard of living for the entire population. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • In the year 2000, world leaders agreed upon the Millennium Development Goals to address extreme poverty. (borgenproject.org)
  • The official report declares, "The 15-year effort to achieve the eight aspirational goals set out in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 was largely successful across the globe, while acknowledging shortfalls that remain. (borgenproject.org)
  • For example, looking closer at the goal of education: "Primary school enrollment figures have shown an impressive rise, but the goal of achieving universal primary education has just been missed, with the net enrollment rate increasing from 83 percent in 2000 to 91 percent this year," according to The Guardian. (borgenproject.org)
  • The MDGs, adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000, had eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators that were primarily aligned with pre-existing development objectives like improving primary school completion rates and access to safe drinking water and sanitation. (19fortyfive.com)
  • The Millennium Development Goals were formalized in the Millennium Declaration, which was endorsed by 189 Heads of State and Government at the United Nations Millennium Summit of 2000. (iadb.org)
  • The MDGs have provided a framework that has laid out in clear and succinct terms the kind of world we want, with priorities, hard targets, and deadlines to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Many consider 2005 to be a pivotal year in fostering new progress toward the year-2015 targets of the MDGs. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • These goals were established after a series of world summits and global conferences with a view to laying out a comprehensive development agenda including quantitative goals, time-bound targets, and numerical indicators. (undp.org)
  • But Jens Martens, director of the Global Policy Forum, told IPS that in general, the current list of proposed goals and targets is not an adequate response to the global social, economic and environmental crises and the need for fundamental change. (ipsnews.net)
  • The Call to Action on the Millennium Development Goals aims to accelerate progress towards meeting these global targets, bringing together heads of state and other key figures in development for a high-level event at the United Nations Headquarters on 25 September 2008. (odi.org)
  • The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most determined effort in history to galvanise international action around one set of development targets. (odi.org)
  • The goals themselves are no-brainers: basic rights for all by the year 2015, with clear targets to be reached along the way. (odi.org)
  • Whether the eight MDGs and their 18 targets and 48 recent indicators can be seen to offer a clear, credible and understandable picture of progress or failure to advance the goals, by regions and countries, is not an irrelevant question and is present at the heart of the issue. (agenda.org.za)
  • The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into force in January 2016 as the central United Nations (UN) platform for achieving 'integrated and indivisible' goals and targets across the three characteristic dimensions of sustainable development: the social, environmental and economic. (bmj.com)
  • The United Nations has drawn up a list of 169 targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the end of this year. (copenhagenconsensus.com)
  • The MDGs set quantitative targets for halving extreme poverty by 2015. (socialistinternational.org)
  • The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) therefore have been the world s only time-bound and quantifiable targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions: income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and social exclusion, while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability [ 1 ]. (panafrican-med-journal.com)
  • Following talks today in Washington with United States President George W. Bush, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the importance of reaching global anti-poverty targets and said a strong partnership between the world body and its host country is key to achieving shared goals. (un.org)
  • While the overall targets were not met, significant progress has been made toward achieving several of the stated goals. (borgenproject.org)
  • The 17 goals include 169 targets, an ambitious agenda whose success will depend upon governments and civil society working together, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • The "Gender Equality" goal includes as one of its top targets the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls in the public and private sphere-a scourge that is prevalent even in the workplace, where 30 percent to 40 percent of workers report gender-based violence, a figure that rises to 90 percent in some jobs. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • Building accountable institutions and ensuring access to justice ( Goal No. 16 and Goal No. 17 ), and implementing social protections systems, one of the targets of Goal No. 1 , also are essential components of the new 15-year plan. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • As global policymakers look to agree a set of sustainable development targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Commonwealth is calling for the adoption of a standalone Youth Goal. (twibbon.com)
  • Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals have been proposed (Annex 1), with 169 associated targets and supported by the three pillars of sustainability: economic development, environmental protection and social equity. (who.int)
  • It has nine targets that address the unfinished agenda of the MDGs, the rising burden of noncommunicable diseases and cross-cutting systems-focused targets (including universal health coverage). (who.int)
  • It is vital that, for areas included under the health goal, global and regional targets and indicators that have already been set are harmonized with the list of SDG indicators which is expected to be finalized in March 2016. (who.int)
  • 2 According to the latest WHO estimates, the Region is on track for achieving the TB-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other international targets by 2015. (who.int)
  • Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are instruments used by the Washington institutions to achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) initiated by the UN. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • For this to happen, on 25 September 2015 world leaders assembled at the United Nations headquarters in New York, to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development replacing MDGs. (wikipedia.org)
  • The report proposes the inclusion of new goals on zero income poverty and zero hunger and malnutrition by as early as 2030, as part of a broad post-2015 agenda. (adb.org)
  • More importantly, the report proposes 12 specific goals that the international community should work towards to end poverty and other deprivations by 2030. (adb.org)
  • represents the health sector's response to the commitments made by the Member States of PAHO in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with the unfinished issues of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017, as well as emerging regional public health challenges. (bvsalud.org)
  • The SI expresses its hope that the major event will gather the needed political momentum for a more effective implementation of the agreements reached in Johannesburg and the attainment of the MDGS. (socialistinternational.org)
  • Nigeria is one of the countries noted to have made insufficient progress towards the attainment of the health-related MDGs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Human resource shortages in the health services are widely acknowledged as a threat to the attainment of the healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (bvsalud.org)
  • Goals 1 and 7 are monitored through health-related indicators. (who.int)
  • Maternal death has dropped significantly since the adoption of the MDGs. (mdgmonitor.org)
  • This eight goal initiative was planned to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, while aiming to achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development [ 2 ]. (panafrican-med-journal.com)
  • Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number five commits countries to reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio. (deepdyve.com)
  • Other than a reduction in maternal mortality, MDGs commit countries to ensure that women have universal access to reproductive health. (deepdyve.com)
  • Maternal mortality is currently viral respiratory nature and has demonstrated understood as an indicator of social development clinical epidemiological characteristics of rapid because it combines complex social determinants, dissemination and the ability to infect the general which is why it was included in one of the goals population. (bvsalud.org)
  • The 17 new goals, as crafted by an open-ended working group (OWG), include proposals to end poverty, eliminate hunger, attain healthy lives, provide quality education, attain gender equality and reduce inequalities. (ipsnews.net)
  • Even though the goals ranged from reducing child mortality to creating gender equality, each goal was designed to contribute to the overarching desire to reduce poverty, using proven benchmarks to reach that aim. (undispatch.com)
  • In this way, a community foundation in Little Rock, Arkansas which leads a campaign against human trafficking isn't just working on SDG target 5.2, they are impacting goals related to education, poverty, and gender equality. (undispatch.com)
  • One of the main omissions pointed out by feminists and therefore presenting a challenge for gender activists regarding the MDGs, is the inclusion of women in gender equality in only one goal, Goal 3, which leaves their direct involvement in all other seven MDGs an open-ended question for countries to decide. (agenda.org.za)
  • The MDGs on global poverty, health, education and gender equality have provided an unprecedented rallying point for action by governments, civil society, international agencies and the private sector. (nature.com)
  • The government undertook a detailed costing exercise to quantify the resource requirements for achieving seven of the eight MDGs, namely, reducing poverty and hunger, securing universal primary education, promoting gender equality and women's empowerment, reducing child mortality, improving m aternal health, combating the spread of communicable diseases and ensuring environmental sustainability (RGoB 2007a). (epw.in)
  • Achieving gender equality, Goal No. 5 , also is essential to attaining broad-based prosperity. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • Achieving these Goals through sustainable growth and advances in key areas such as education, health, environmental sustainability and gender equality, is recognized as a challenge for developing and developed countries alike. (iadb.org)
  • Among activist groups, there was widespread criticism that water and sanitation was not a "stand alone goal" in the current MDGs but only a secondary goal under Goal 7 on "environmental sustainability. (ipsnews.net)
  • And, more than the MDGs, they emphasize sustainability. (conflictoflaws.net)
  • But the biggest result that has come from the MDGs is a determination to succeed in ensuring sustainability for future generations of the world's citizens. (borgenproject.org)
  • It is therefore of crucial importance to bring the Millennium Goals to the local level by creating ownership by local actors and by adapting the Goals to local needs and priorities. (socialistinternational.org)
  • It presents some suggestions to adapt the MDG agenda to the realities and stages of development of the countries of the region, a summary of recent Bank activities to support the MDGs, and some reflections on priorities for the period to 2015 and beyond. (iadb.org)
  • 1. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) marked a significant and effective framework of global mobilization to achieve a set of important developmental priorities worldwide. (who.int)
  • In addition, important health priorities were excluded from the MDGs, including the increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases. (who.int)
  • The goals have provided an effective global framework for tackling a set of important developmental priorities worldwide. (who.int)
  • and by establishing measurable and time-bound objectives, the MDGs have helped to promote global awareness of development needs and priorities, strengthen political commitment and accountability, improve metrics and increase community participation. (who.int)
  • In addition, many health priorities were excluded from the MDGs, including noncommunicable diseases, mental health, and violence and injuries. (who.int)
  • Some non-governmental organizations have complained that the MDGs represent a top-down, heavy-handed attempt to centralize and bureaucratize international development planning, that the MDGs over-reach and inflate expectations, and that the MDGs emphasize economic and "macro" development to the neglect of other components of development. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Yet the Millennium Development Goals also represent an enormous opportunity - a minimal shared framework for improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people, including many among unreached peoples. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Activists argue that water and sanitation must be a stand-alone goal in the post-2015 framework. (ipsnews.net)
  • Nadya Kassam, global head of campaigns at the London-based WaterAid, told IPS, "We believe water and sanitation must be a stand-alone goal for the post-2015 framework, and we are encouraged by what we've seen so far. (ipsnews.net)
  • The report notes that while a post-2015 framework should detail shared global goals, it should also give individual regions or countries flexibility over how best to achieve them, with responsibilities for global public goods based on capacities. (adb.org)
  • By establishing clear, streamlined goals for implementation, nations can easily reference them as a benchmark in tracking their progress towards eradicating poverty, providing quality education and healthcare, and reducing global inequalities. (anera.org)
  • With less than 1,000 days remaining until the 2015 deadline to meet the MDGs, the report, Asia-Pacific Aspirations: Perspectives for a Post-2015 Development Agenda , provides an insight into where the region stands with the MDGs and what it must do to accelerate their implementation. (adb.org)
  • 1.2 At its Council meeting in Johannesburg in November 2004, the Socialist International underlined that the most important challenge for the next decade lies in the implementation of the MDGs, which were reaffirmed in the Monterrey Consensus and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). (socialistinternational.org)
  • 2.1 At its Council meeting in Johannesburg the SI stressed the need for member countries to localise the implementation of the MDGs. (socialistinternational.org)
  • Venezuela's remarkably rapid achievement of most of the MDGs compared to every other country in the world is a result of the Chavez government's implementation of economic and social policies based on the principles underlying 21st century socialism. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Venezuela's remarkably rapid achievement of most of the MDGs compared to every other country in the world is a result of the Chavez government's implementation of economic and social policies based on the principles underlying 21st century socialism, which give priority to social investment for collective welfare and development. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • The ruling party (PML-N) also constituted a committee for the practical implementation of these goals", Baligh claimed. (com.pk)
  • Kassam said access to sanitation is lagging the furthest behind, and at the current rates of progress, it would take sub-Saharan Africa, as a region, over 150 years just to reach the existing goal of halving the proportion of people without. (ipsnews.net)
  • One of the main concerns is, therefore, the interpretations of the MDGs by women, needed to give the goals local validity, meaning and specific relevance to improving the quality of life in the context of national policies, the regional interests in Africa, and of course not least, within communities and neighbourhoods. (agenda.org.za)
  • Particular efforts will be needed in Africa, which on current rates of progress will not meet any of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. (socialistinternational.org)
  • And I need your strong support as we are going through this year, a midpoint year, to realize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015," he said, citing in particular the needs of Africa. (un.org)
  • Africa is rich in human capital and natural resources with potential to realize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) even without foreign aid. (deepdyve.com)
  • Therefore, incidence goals: a case detection rate of 70% and a cure rate of 85% estimates are particularly uncertain in sub-Saharan Africa, (2,3). (cdc.gov)
  • Reaching this goal would not only fight Ebola in West Africa, but also prevent outbreaks of other diseases that are spread by contaminated water and inadequate access to improved sanitation and hygiene practices such as handwashing. (cdc.gov)
  • The MDGs represent an attempt to replace "compassion fatigue" and "donor jaundice" with new hope and generosity and a renewed sense of common stewardship, partially through an initial emphasis on do-able "quick wins" and by fast-tracking development aid to countries showing they can usefully absorb such aid. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Rwanda adopted the MDGs along with 191 other countries. (undp.org)
  • The Rio-plus-20 outcome document, adopted at an international conference in Brazil in 2012, specifically said the new goals should be "universally applicable to all countries," including developed countries. (ipsnews.net)
  • This event will highlight how countries are implementing the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level. (worldbank.org)
  • They were preceded by the "Millennium Development Goals" (MDGs), which set eight goals concentrated on combating poverty in the world, especially in developing countries. (iwkoeln.de)
  • These developed societies face the same need as developing countries for a major transitionary and transformative change towards sustainable growth that protects the environment, helps communities and their inhabitants adapt to a changing climate, and which is more inclusive regarding social and resource-conserving goals. (iwkoeln.de)
  • Over the next fifteen years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change. (mcgill.ca)
  • Unfortunately, at existing rates of progress, many countries will fall short of these goals. (socialistinternational.org)
  • However, if increased financial resources are made available in line with the Official Development Assistance (ODA) target of 0.7 per cent of Gross National Product (GNP), concrete progress is made regarding innovative financial instruments and if developing countries take steps to improve their policies significant additional progress towards the goals is possible. (socialistinternational.org)
  • According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), "the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions. (borgenproject.org)
  • 1. Most countries in the African Region have made more progress in the new millennium than during the 1990s but are still not on track to achieve the health and health-related MDGs despite the commitments made by governments and partners. (who.int)
  • 2. A number of key and overarching challenges need to be addressed effectively if countries are to attain the goals. (who.int)
  • Despite these commitments, most countries in the African Region are not on track to achieve the health and health-related MDGs. (who.int)
  • One good step in this direction is UNDP's initiative to conduct a series of 50 consultations in dozens of countries to try to give the next set of goals a more rounded and grounded feel. (developmenthorizons.com)
  • Member States in the Eastern Mediterranean Region have made substantial progress towards achievement of the health- related Millennium Development Goals 1, 4, 5 and 6, although the progress is variable both across and within countries. (who.int)
  • Developing countries have made substantial progress towards the goals, although the progress has been highly variable across goals, countries and regions. (who.int)
  • Prevalence and death rates (indicator 23) and the propor- case death rates (6) also gives uncertain results because tion of cases detected and cured under a directly observed ascertaining cause of death is incomplete in most countries treatment strategy (DOTS) (indicator 24) are used to meas- with a high rate of TB, and TB case death rates vary, since ure progress towards this goal. (cdc.gov)
  • The countries that have been disproportionately affected by the Ebola outbreak have a long way to go to reach that goal. (cdc.gov)
  • Investing in family planning is a development "best buy" that can accelerate achievement across the 5 Sustainable Development Goal themes of People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership. (ghspjournal.org)
  • The paper addresses the issue of financing the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in a sustainable manner in a small, low income and landlocked country, the example being Bhutan. (epw.in)
  • 1.1 The Socialist International reaffirms its strong commitment to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (socialistinternational.org)
  • The MDGs were packaged as an easily understandable set of eight goals, with measurable and time-bound objectives. (who.int)
  • The Asia-Pacific region remains woefully off-track in meeting the MDGs on such basic areas as hunger, health, and sanitation, the report notes. (adb.org)
  • Toward that end, he said President Bush's upcoming visit to the continent "will be very important and historic," voicing hope that he would "discuss with African leaders on how to achieve these Millennium Development Goals, how to help people overcome abject poverty, and sanitation [problems] and [gain] access to educational opportunities. (un.org)
  • It was no longer acceptable to focus on traditional development goals like increasing employment, per capita income, literacy, life expectancy, access to water and sanitation, etc. (19fortyfive.com)
  • Meeting the Millennium Development Goals drinking water and sanitation target : a mid-term assessment of progress. (who.int)
  • The United Nations' Millennium Development Goal 7 is to reduce the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by half [2] . (cdc.gov)
  • What we need instead are measurable goals for the rich," said Martens, who has been monitoring the last 12 sessions of the OWG. (ipsnews.net)
  • The MDGs were concrete, specific and measurable, and therefore succeeded in establishing some priority areas of focus in international development. (russellreynolds.com)
  • On Oct. 24, a panel of experts, including Phil Oxhorn, McGill's Associate Provost (International), will examine the contribution of the private sector in regards to the UN's sustainable development goals. (mcgill.ca)
  • The proposed SDG list, he pointed out, contains a mix of recycled old commitments and vaguely formulated new ones (such as the goal 1.a. to "ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources to provide adequate and predictable means to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions. (ipsnews.net)
  • As the credit crunch and rising prices threaten to distract leaders from their global commitments, now is the time to regroup around the MDGs, looking beyond 2015 and changing direction if necessary. (odi.org)
  • The SI calls upon all governments to fulfil their commitments to international initiatives in all areas related to the MDGs. (socialistinternational.org)
  • One of the lessons from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was that local governments often lacked the capacity to deliver results in communities, districts, and regions. (worldbank.org)
  • How do governments and private organizations come together to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? (russellreynolds.com)
  • The question is - how do governments and private organizations come together and develop a joint approach to achieving these global goals? (russellreynolds.com)
  • One of the greatest drawbacks of the MDGs was lack of commitment by governments and the absence of the private sector in the framing of the goals. (russellreynolds.com)
  • There is agreement among the global health community and governments to continue improving health and reducing disparities in the post-2015 era, building on the unfinished agenda of the MDGs. (who.int)
  • Lebanon adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. (wikipedia.org)
  • BASF was recognized by the Global Compact Network Canada for its outstanding efforts to advance action towards the 17 United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. (basf.com)
  • However, simply establishing the goals has not removed the barriers created by the inertia of political and economic institutions to achieving sustainable development. (anera.org)
  • Nearly a year after the official launch of the post-2015 agenda, people are still grappling with how to make the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals a reality. (undispatch.com)
  • United Nations Food Systems Summit: What is the role of soil health in putting the Sustainable Development Goals on track? (jswconline.org)
  • New ideas, including the push for Sustainable Development Goals, are emerging that could help to shift the development agenda in the right direction. (nature.com)
  • The Innovation Collaborative is composed of Roundtable members and other stakeholders with a shared interest in developing cooperative activities and strategies to advance global goals on sustainable development and human health. (nationalacademies.org)
  • We are approaching the end of year two of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). (worldbank.org)
  • Sustainable Development Goals: Aspiration or Reality? (russellreynolds.com)
  • The United Nations is… defining Sustainable Development Goals as part a new sustainable development agenda that must finish the job and leave no one behind. (borgenproject.org)
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  • The war's toll on the Lebanese economy, communities and human capital, impacted progress on the MDGs. (wikipedia.org)
  • This status report is a joint effort between the Government of Rwanda and the United Nations Country Team to present the country's progress in fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (undp.org)
  • Progress is also enhanced when efforts are made across a number of mutually reinforcing goals. (odi.org)
  • The analytical aim of the paper is to conduct the first investigation in the literature of the impact of PRSP features on progress in achieving the MDGs. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Baird, M. and Shetty, S. (2003) How to accelerate progress towards the MDGs. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • 2004) Monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals at country level. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The UN Summit in September will review progress on the Millennium Development Goals including the Sachs Millennium Project report proposals, and discuss the Secretary General's report 'In Larger Freedom' based on the Sachs report and the report of the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. (socialistinternational.org)
  • Some progress has been made over the last decade, but the United States lacks a clear, consistent strategy for realizing the MDGs. (treatmentactiongroup.org)
  • Although UN boasts of success under the MDGs were overstated , progress was indeed made in reducing extreme poverty - largely driven by growth in China and India . (19fortyfive.com)
  • However, the MDGs were plagued by poor data quality, data gaps, and questions about whether the measures were driving progress or merely tracking it. (19fortyfive.com)
  • This report analyzes the progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Latin America and the Caribbean so far and assesses the scope of the challenges that remain. (iadb.org)
  • This paper provides a summary of the progress made in achieving the health-related MDGs in Member States of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region and the main challenges. (who.int)
  • The MDGs constituted an unprecedented commitment by world leaders to comprehensively address issues of peace, security, development, human rights and fundamental freedoms. (who.int)
  • There is clearly also a role for tort law , including its application to cross-border situations, for example in order to fulfill goals regarding environmental protection and climate change. (conflictoflaws.net)
  • In addition to the 'unfinished agenda' from the MDGs, the region must address new emerging challenges like rising inequalities, unplanned urbanization, climate change, pollution, and water scarcity. (adb.org)
  • In January 2005 the energetic Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University's Earth Institute unveiled the UNDP-endorsed, ten-volume Millennium Project, a detailed, interdisciplinary "practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • For the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) , their goal is to allow individuals to make their own choices, accomplishing goals they wish to achieve, and lead an emotionally satisfactory existence. (anera.org)
  • Faced with a highly complex and challenging set of goals, the international development community cannot afford to distance or exclude a significant proportion of its talent pool and hope to achieve goals that speak to inclusion and equity. (chemonics.com)
  • After nearly 15 years on from the MDGs, the original goal on water to halve the proportion of people without has been reached globally. (ipsnews.net)
  • The quantitative evidence suggests that PRSPs appear to become more effective over time, and that more focused PRSPs, more participatory PRSP formulation, and better proposed policy actions may enhance their effectiveness in achieving MDGs. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Multi-stakeholder forums were held by different UN agencies including the UN Global Compact Network in Lebanon during the late 2010s for the advancement of Global Goals and their Impact on Businesses in Lebanon. (wikipedia.org)
  • The latest two were held on October 18, 2018 and October 2019 under the title of connecting the global goals to Local Businesses. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is the focus of "From Global Goals to Local Impact" , a new report by the Council on Foundations. (undispatch.com)
  • Lebanon submitted two reports on the Millennium Development Goals, in 2003 and 2008 respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • As you read this, world leaders are engaged in discussions about a new global development plan that will succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire at the end of 2015. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Who Cares About the Millennium Development Goals? (missionfrontiers.org)
  • But chances are that you haven't even heard of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (missionfrontiers.org)
  • What Are the Millennium Development Goals? (missionfrontiers.org)
  • The Millennium Development Goals have generated an enormous volume of discussion and reams of written critique. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Indeed, the Millennium Development Goals are decidedly imperfect, both in substance and process. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • They build on and succeed the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (basf.com)
  • In drafting these development goals, the United Nations worked together with nongovernmental organizations, international trade associations, employee representatives, scientists, policymakers and industry. (basf.com)
  • Do Poverty Reduction Strategies Help Achieve The Millennium Development Goals? (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Black, R. and White, H. (2004) Targeting Development: Critical Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • As the United Nations General Assembly meets in New York this week, the global community should look beyond the 2015 expiry of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (nature.com)
  • The Millennium Development Goals have been a powerful tool for rallying global support around common objectives including poverty reduction,' said Kazu Sakai, Director General of ADB's Strategy and Policy Department. (adb.org)
  • The government is fully committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by mainstreaming it into the Tenth Plan (2008-13). (epw.in)
  • The appeal comes as debates on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and post-2015 development agenda con. (copenhagenconsensus.com)
  • Despite public statements by world leaders that they remain committed to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they fail time and time again to put the necessary financial resources on the table to realize them. (treatmentactiongroup.org)
  • Just this September, the U.S. government released Celebrate, Innovate & Sustain Toward 2015 and Beyond: The United States' Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals. (treatmentactiongroup.org)
  • That's why there needs to be a series of grassroots consultations on what development goals should aspire to. (developmenthorizons.com)
  • Gender mainstreaming in poverty eradication and the millennium development goals : a handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders / Naila Kabeer. (who.int)
  • The millennium development goals for health : rising to the challenges / by Adam Wagstaff and Mariam Claeson. (who.int)
  • Efficiency in reaching the millennium development goals / [edited by] Ruwan Jayasuriya, Quentin Wodon. (who.int)
  • Deriving is included in the Millennium Development Goals (1). (cdc.gov)
  • [2] We can end poverty: Millennium Development Goals and beyond 2015. (cdc.gov)
  • The experience gained during 15 years of pursuing the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been vast and invaluable for the Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). (bvsalud.org)
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  • The responsibility that civil society and women's organisations carry in meeting the diverse challenges presented by the MDGs is not to be underestimated, perhaps precisely because they require that we make sense of country reports as activists and decipher the meanings of the MDG Monitor's data. (agenda.org.za)
  • Trade is recognized as an important means to achieve these goals. (adb.org)
  • And whose responsibility is it to achieve these goals? (russellreynolds.com)
  • The document broadly describes the U.S. government's approach to the MDGs but disappoints by filling up pages with vague statements about what will, should, and must be done to achieve them - while leaving out any substantive details. (treatmentactiongroup.org)
  • Efforts to achieve the Millennium Develo- pment Goal No. 4 of reducing children's under-5 mortality in developing coun- tries by two thirds by 2015 should include promoting the health and education of women. (bvsalud.org)
  • He said any post-2015 agenda must address the structural obstacles and political barriers that prevented the realisation of the MDGs, such as unfair trade and investment rules (including the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism) and the problems of tax evasion and tax avoidance by TNCs and wealthy individuals. (ipsnews.net)
  • Social protection floors are emerging as a key initiative and social goal in the post-2015 context. (deepdyve.com)
  • Clemens, M.A., Kenny, C.J. and Moss, T.J. (2004) The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success Working Paper Number 40, May 2004. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • In ODI's Annual Report 2008, Andrew Shepherd discusses the importance of these goals. (odi.org)
  • The full description of methods is available in the Global Tuberculosis Report 2013 and the data sets are available from the WHO global TB database ( www.who.int/tb/country/en/ ). (who.int)
  • PERSPECTIVES know whether they are reaching the case detection rate infection indicate differences in the patient diagnostic rate goal. (cdc.gov)
  • Lebanon's showed a complex performance indicator regarding MDGs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Meanwhile, many faith-based and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) also began to visibly throw their support behind the MDGs, including the Micah Challenge co-sponsored by the World Evangelical Alliance. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • The final set of goals is to be approved by world leaders in September 2015. (ipsnews.net)
  • Based on these goals, the world has galvanized previously unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world s poorest and most disadvantaged [ 3 ]. (panafrican-med-journal.com)
  • Nigeria, like most other nations of the world, signed this treaty and promised to work towards the realization of this goal. (panafrican-med-journal.com)
  • Now that 2015 is coming to an end, the world is evaluating the success of the MDGs. (borgenproject.org)
  • A standalone development goal for young people post-2015 There are over 1.8 billion young people in the world, many of whom endure pervasive ine. (twibbon.com)
  • Taking Uganda as a case study, this paper argues that Africa's failure to effectively meet the MDGs is due to the deficit of political leadership and. (deepdyve.com)
  • The main focus of the MDGs was to reduce global poverty and established a series of goals to do just that. (undispatch.com)
  • These goals came into force on 1 January 2016 and are aimed at ending poverty, protecting the planet, and attaining prosperity for all. (adb.org)
  • Indeed, the MDGs have come under fire from critics as little more than the United Nations' attempt to improve its image and standing, or as a new opportunity for specialists in the international development "industry" to further their careers and funding. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • The global economic crisis and its aftermath have made advocacy to regain the global political will, drive, and ambition to realize the MDGs much more difficult. (treatmentactiongroup.org)
  • But fundamental to the entire plan is Goal No. 8, " Decent Work and Economic Growth ," says Shawna Bader-Blau, Solidarity Center executive director. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • A Youth Goal would ensure the economic, social and political empowerment and participation of young people and help this generation contribute to all aspects of national development, as active participants, champions and custodians. (twibbon.com)