Millenium Challenge

By Leo Jaymar G. Uy, Businessworld, Jul 19, 2017 A GOVERNMENT SCORECARD that details the Philippines’ progress in meeting economic development targets in the last six years showed that the country failed in many of them. According to the Statistical Indicators on Philippine Development (StatDev) 2016, the government met 58 out of the 148 targets…

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Children are half as likely to die before their fifth birthday now than they were in 1990, researchers said on Wednesday, but a United Nations target has not been met.

THE Philippines expressed its legislative branch’ commitment to the post-2015 development agenda, consisting of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), that world leaders will adopt at the eve of the United Nations’ 70th founding anniversary this month.

This is the third in a series of posts on data related the Millennium Development Goals based on the 2015 Edition of World Development Indicators.

Most schools open next month (with the exception of colleges and universities, which are moving their opening dates to August to align with the international school calendar).

The year 2015 is nigh, the target year set in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 for reducing extreme poverty and achieving other important objectives known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Philippines is among the countries that have accepted the MDGs.

Introduction to the Proposal of The Open Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals 1. The Rio+20 outcome document, The future we want, inter alia, set out a mandate to establish an Open Working Group to develop a set of sustainable development goals for consideration and appropriate action by the General Assembly at its 68th session.…

THE CLOCK is ticking for a landmark global move to cut poverty and improve the lot of the world’s poorest, and while some targets have been achieved, much remains to be done until the concerted effort formally ends next year, according to the latest assessment the United Nations (UN) released on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) says recent disasters that hit the country make it impossible to reduce poverty, based on targets set in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.

The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has firmed up a poverty incidence target post-2015, which is up for final approval within the quarter, a ranking official said.

MANILA — With only two years to go before the 2015 deadline, the Philippine government’s efforts to reduce poverty and hunger might not be enough to attain the poverty and hunger targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

BIG gains have been made in at least half of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations report said. The MDGs were adopted upon by UN member-countries as a result of the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. The agreement seeks to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality…

ROME—Thirty-eight countries have beaten a UN-imposed deadline of 2015 to cut in half the proportion of hungry people. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization on Saturday recognized the 38 countries and urged those still working to meet the UN target to redouble efforts.

World will miss MDG target Note for media 13 May 2013 | GENEVA/NEW YORK -Some 2.4 billion people – one-third of the world’s population – will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/UNICEF report issued today. The report, entitled Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update, warns that, at…

The countdown to the last 1,000 days to the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has begun. On April 5, the world marked the beginning of the critical last mile of the MDGs.

The country continues to rank relatively higher in human development than other Asean member countries and is also making progress in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines ranks “relatively higher” in terms of human development compared with other Asean member-countries and is making progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

The pace of Philippine improvements under the human development or HDI of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the past 30 decades may be slower than Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, but Manila was able to achieve three of the eight MDG ahead of the 2015 target.

MANILA – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) on Monday said the Philippines is likely to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

With the deadline drawing near, the Philippines remains far from achieving the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG 5) of reducing maternal mortality rate and achieving universal access to reproductive health. “We have not made any headway in reducing maternal mortality in the Philippines,” admitted former Health secretary Esperanza Cabral during the Secretary’s Cup on Maternal…

The Aquino administration is focused on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, and improving maternal health, in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the National Economic and Development Authority said.

MANILA, Philippines – The World Bank believes the Philippines is in a better position to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in three years due to the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program. In a preliminary assessment of the program, the World Bank said families covered by the CCTs spent 36% more on education and…

MANILA, Philippines – Despite having a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in place, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will require more innovations and efforts from Local Government Units (LGUs).

(Part I) What brought about the declaration of the UN Millennium Development Goals? In 1990 at Jomtien, Thailand, UNESCO launched Education for All (EFA) global program to eradicate illiteracy, the major cause of poverty in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. By 2000, the decade after, UNESCO DG Matsuura had the EFA global efforts evaluated at…

2 July 2012 – With three important targets on poverty, slums and water having been met, a new United Nations report stresses the need for a true global partnership to achieve the remaining Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline.

THE Philippine government has vowed to step up efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on basic education and maternal health by 2015.

The Philippines is on track in achieving the Millennium Development Goals particularly in education, health, women and children, President Benigno S. Aquino III told visiting Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia Quentin Bryce on Thursday.

THE WORLD has achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on safe drinking water, the United Nations (UN) said, even as it noted that the target in improving sanitation globally may not be reached before the 2015 deadline.

The Philippines is nearly a decade behind in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing poverty incidence by half in 2015, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

THE GOVERNMENT should address bottlenecks that tend to drag the country’s achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations official said yesterday.