Millenium Challenge

MANILA, Philippines — After repeatedly failing to get the coveted seal of good housekeeping from the US, local authorities have teamed up with the private sector in a last-ditch attempt to unlock up to P400 billion in development funds under the Millennium Challenge Account.

MANILA, Philippines – Infant mortality in the Philippines continues to decline due to improved immunization and oral rehydration campaigns, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has urged donors to “continue, and ideally boost, their current commitments” to help the agency pull the world’s developing countries out of poverty.

MANILA, Philippines – The contraction experienced by the global economy resulting from the financial crisis now makes it virtually impossible to attain the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, according to a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

WASHINGTON – The Philippines will submit a report card to the Millennium Challenge Corp. later this month on steps it has taken to curb corruption to enable it to avail of up to $500 million in US aid.

HONORING commitments to increase international aid is critical at a time of economic crisis.

NINE years ago, world leaders set far-sighted goals to free a major portion of humanity from the shackles of extreme poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease.

MANILA, Philippines – The two-day high-level conference among 43 countries in Asia and Europe yesterday came to the conclusion that no country is on track with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) even countries that performed well on poverty alleviation.

The government is now preparing the anti-poverty proposal to be submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) after the Philippines became eligible to apply for a large-scale grants as a “Compact” level beneficiary of the US-government corporation.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world’s main development challenges. The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in…

IN late 2007, a private lending company filed a complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman against 50 government employees, including school teachers, the police and fire department officers.

REFLECTING its ongoing efforts to root out corruption, the Philippines is now eligible for bigger grants from a US government corporation that promotes civil liberties, public health expenditure, girls’ primary education, business start ups and land rights.

If you base your conclusions only on critical reports about the Philippines, you will say we are only slogging on—not marching briskly—to meet our Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

IN AN effort to secure a grant from Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the Philippines has fine-tuned six compact proposals for submission to the MCC Transaction Team prior to the MCC peer review process.