Millenium Challenge

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines may not be able to attain all of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but the United Nations is encouraging the present administration to keep up its “intent” and efforts to accelerate achievements and promote inclusive growth, UN resident coordinator Dr. Jacqueline Badcock told reporters Monday at the sidelines of an event celebrating…

Albay aims to sustain and further improve its maternal and infant mortality reduction performance under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) with the completion of nine Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC), centers, which are also designed as family hospitals.

FISCAL CAUTION — as reflected in the government’s use of both economic growth assumptions and targets — could lead to development goals being missed, the House of Representatives think tank said.

ACADEMICIANS, experts and local government executives on Wednesday called for localized implementation of projects attuned to the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some four years before the 2015 deadline set by the United Nations.

FOUR YEARS into the deadline, some local government units (LGUs) are still sorely lacking awareness on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), hindering the achievement of the entire set of eight United Nations-sponsored MDG targets, experts yesterday said.

SIGNIFICANT GAINS have been made in terms of meeting development goals set by the United Nations (UN) but the progress has been patchy, a UN report released Friday showed. The world as a whole is still on track to reach the poverty-reduction target by 2015, according to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Report 2011, but…

MANILA, Philippines—Keeping tax financing out of its economic-management strategy could cost the government its commitments on education, maternal and reproductive health, and poverty reduction, according to economists.

Manila, Philippines – The Philippines is now preparing to implement the $434-million grant from the United States Government’s Millennium Challenge Corp.

THE Department of Finance (DOF) said on Thursday that the US government has extended a multimillion grant to fight poverty in the Philippines.

THE Philippines is “close” in achieving most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, according to a new World Bank report.

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd on Tuesday announced that government was inching closer to fulfill the advocacies of the Millennium Development Goal Achievement Program (MDG F-1919) of providing potable water to every Filipino in the country.

(Part II of a series on 25 Years of Non-Political UNESCO projects for the Philippines and Asia) Since he was elected last May, President Benigno C. Aquino III has not activated the UNESCO National Commission. Even before election, a complete list of experts has been carefully studied by Committee Chairmen Dr. Florangel Braid (Communication), Felice…

MANILA, Philippines— The Philippines’ performance in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has remained “generally low” with barely five years into the deadline to achieve the goals set by the United Nations, according to a UN official in the Philippines.

TO reduce the country’s debt and attain the millennium development goals (MDGs), the House Special Committee on Millennium Development Goals passed a joint resolution creating the joint legislative-executive council on debt-for-MDG swap which aims to pursue a debt-reduction strategy and resource-generation scheme for sustainable human development.

President Benigno Aquino III’s address to the United Nations and meetings with UN leaders such as Secretary General Ban Ki-moon afforded him the chance to reaffirm the Philippine government’s resolve to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. But just five years into the deadline, it appears remote that all the targets would…

The Philippines continues to fall behind two indicators, on health and primary education expenditures, in the yearly score card of the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) that tracks country’s compliance with the global goal of eliminating poverty by 2015.

THE large number of Filipino children living on the streets threatens the Philippines’ ability to meet the Millennium Development Goals, according to a joint study conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies.

Local government units (LGUs) have significant roles when it comes to the realization of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN-MDGs) where the Philippines is a signatory.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines made considerable strides in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) but challenges remained to be hurdled in other areas.

As a national follow through on its commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, national and local government officials, together with development partners from the United Nations, the international donor community and civil society, discussed breakthrough strategies and put forward their commitments to speed up implementation of efforts at the first ever…

MANILA, Philippines—In her jumbled English, 13-year-old Stella Mae Santos wrote her wish to the government: “I want to the poor people to have and dress and school requirements and money so that they have for buying foods.”

WASHINGTON—With the number of hungry people growing to more than a billion last year, the world is “nowhere near” reaching the objectives outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released last week.

WHILE the Philippines shares with India the world’s top spot in outsourcing and technology, a study by the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (Unctad) reveals the benefits are far from trickling down to the rural poor.

TACLOBAN CITY — The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has asked local government units to consider programs that will meet UN-sponsored Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in planning for their 2011 budget.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Medium-Term Development Plan (MTDP) for the period 2010 to 2016 contain policies and strategies that reflect the country’s commitment to prioritize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga Jr. said.

EARLY this morning, President Aquino returns from his maiden trip abroad as our head of state. The biggest booty he will bring back home from the United States is, of course, the long-delayed grant of $434 million in aid from the Bush-era Millennium Challenge Corporation. This is equivalent to nearly P20 billion, serious money indeed…

Five years from now, President Noynoy will have to make the trip back to New York to give that final historic report of how his country fared on commitments to the Millennium Development Goals as agreed upon in 2001by all members of the United Nations and at least 23 international organizations.

DESPITE the country’s efforts to increase social spending through programs like the conditional cash-transfer (CCT) program to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) believes that addressing infrastructure constraints will still hold the key in achieving the goals by 2015.

NEW YORK – The United States pledged continued support for President Aquino’s administration during the signing of the $434-million grant to the Philippines by the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), citing his commitment to fight corruption and help uplift the lives of the poor.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines will meet its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This was the statement made by Health Secretary Enrique Ona at the opening of the Women Deliver Philippines Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel last week.