The Center for Global Development recently released a new online interactive map tool to gauge progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the country level. Through this tool, the CGD ranks countries on their overall progress on the 7 indicators with a score of 1-8. When you click on a country, you will see seven graphs showing observed progress on each of the indicators against... [Read more]
Posts Tagged ‘millennium development goals’
Investing in Women and Girls – Access to Rights and Resources
Submitted by By Yvette Gerrans Just after lunch, and 100+ women and a minority of men drift in with expectation. We’re wanting to talk about investing in women and girls—why it’s needed, why it works, and how to do it well. Sessions like this have always felt like a long-distance meeting of “the sisterhood” to me, we women talking about women. Geeta Rao Gupta (Bill & Melinda Gates... [Read more]
Universal Literacy as a Catalyst for Achieving All MDG Goals Part 2 of 2: Barriers to literacy and educational strategies to accelerate progress.
Submitted by Linda Martin Social and economic factors that restrict or deny access to education include gender bias, lack of schools, lack of trained teachers, demands on children’s time to work, drop-out rates, and fee based education which families cannot afford. Geography also plays a role. Per the Millennium Development Progress Report 2010 “household data from 42 countries also show that... [Read more]
Obama Announces New U.S. Global Development Policy
On the final day of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit yesterday, President Obama announced a new U.S. Global Development Policy. The global development community has been waiting for this policy for a long time, and it includes many of the elements that Global Washington and the rest of the development community have been pushing for over the past year. MFAN, the Modernizing Foreign... [Read more]
The Millennium Development Goals Summit Has Arrived- News & Views from around the Web
The UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals kicked off in New York today, and will continue through Wednesday, Sept 22nd. World leaders are gathering to discuss the progress made and work to be done toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). On Wednesday, the event will culminate with an address by President Barack Obama. If you are looking for background and general information... [Read more]
Universal Literacy as a Catalyst for Achieving All MDG Goals Part 1 of 2: The state of global literacy and its role in poverty alleviation.
Submitted by Linda Martin On September 8, the world focused its eyes on education, in honor of International Literacy Day 2010. Yet as millions celebrated, results from the Millennium Development Progress Report 2010 concluded “Hope dims for universal education by 2015, even as many poor countries make tremendous strides.” Is it possible to mobilize the resources and political support necessary... [Read more]
How Do Americans Feel about U.S. Foreign Aid And the Millennium Development Goals?
Both the Senate and the House Appropriation Committees have recently approved a cut in the FY2011 foreign aid budget, despite pleas from many, including Secretary Clinton. The amounts approved are $54.06 billion by the Senate and $52.6 billion by the House; both lower than the $56.6 billion requested by the Obama Administration. In the atmosphere of budget deficits and economic constraints, the... [Read more]
New U.S. Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
The Obama administration recently released the U.S. Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals, a 28-page document that emphasizes innovation, sustainability, and accountability. After a brief recap of progress achieved to date and the serious challenges ahead, the document outlines the three pillars of the U.S. strategy: innovate, sustain, and make it work. According to the strategy,... [Read more]
Millennium Development Goals: Only 5 years to go, are we on track?
With 5 years left to 2015, the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), is the world on track for achieving these goals? Has the economic crisis in 2008 affected the progress? The good news is that though the global economic crisis has slowed progress, the world is still on track. However, the 2010 progress report issued by the United Nations illustrated that success... [Read more]
Water Quality and the Millennium Development Goals
Digging a toilet by communal labor in Fotobi (Eastern Region), Ghana by Brett Walton, guest blogger With five years until the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations has released a series of progress reports. The water and sanitation April 2010 update states that the world is on track to meet the drinking water goal, but will fall far short of the target for... [Read more]
