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Things You Want To Know About MDG
What is MDG?
MDG stands for Millennium Development Goals
– a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating
poverty, hunger, diseases, illiteracy, environmental degradation and
discrimination against women. It consists of 8 goals, 18 targets and 48
indicators, covering the period 1990 to 2015
When and how did MDG start?
In September 2000, member states of the
United Nations (UN) gathered at the Millennium Summit to affirm
commitments towards reducing poverty and the worst forms of human
deprivation. The Summit adopted the UN Millennium Declaration which
embodies specific targets and milestones in eliminating extreme poverty
worldwide. A total of 189 countries, including the Philippines committed
themselves to making the right to development a reality for everyone.
How can the UN member states achieve
the MDGs?
For most nations to achieve the MDGs, they
must get not only additional financial resources from both domestic and
external sources, but should also formulate policies and set up an
institutional environment that will ensure that the resources are used
efficiently and effectively
Specifically, what are the MDGs?
The UN aims that by 2015,
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the proportion of people suffering from
extreme poverty and hunger will be halved;
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all children will be in primary school;
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girls will have the same educational
opportunities as boys;
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the proportion of people without access to
safe drinking water will be halved;
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the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria will be
stopped;
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a child’s risk of dying before the age of
five will be reduced by two-thirds;
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a mother’s risk of dying while pregnant
will be reduced by three quarters;
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the world’s ecosystem and biodiversity
will be better protected from destruction;
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at least 100 million slum dwellers will
get better housing, health care, and new opportunities for education;
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people in developing countries will have
greater access to essential drugs;
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the benefits of new technologies,
especially information technologies, will flow to more countries and
more people; and
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wealthy countries will support developing
countries with debt relief, more financial aid, and greater market
access.
How can the attainment of the MDGs
be measured?
The attainment of the MDGs can be measured
through a set of indicators defined by the UN that will be able to assess
progress over the period 1990 to 2015.
What efforts has the Philippines
done to support the MDGs?
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The Philippines, as one of the signatories
in the United Nations Millennium Declaration has come up with the first
Philippines Progress Report on the Millennium Development
Goals which not only defines where the country is relative
to the MDGs, but also outlines the challenges that have to be overcome
in order to attain these goals. The report was prepared by the National
Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) through the collaborative
efforts of the Multi-sectoral Committee on International Human
Development Commitments (MC-IHDC) and the Social Development Committee (SDC).
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To provide the data for monitoring of the
country’s progress towards the attainment of the MDGs, the National
Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), as part of its participation in
the Workshop on Development Indicators held in
Manila, Philippines in October 2001 and 2002 organized by the UN
Statistics Division (UNSD) through the "United Nations Project on
Strengthening Regional Capacities for Statistical Development in
Southeast Asia," has compiled the indicators and the corresponding data
series covering the period, 1990 to 2002, and these can be found at the
NSCB website,
http://www.nscb.gov.ph/stats/mdg/
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As part of the commitment of the NSCB to
monitor the MDGs, the NSCB in cooperation with various stakeholders of
poverty statistics is organizing the 2004 International Conference on
Official Poverty Statistics: Methodology and Comparability to be held in
Manila, Philippines on October 4-6, 2004. The discussion and formulation
of an integrated plan for the regular compilation by the national
statistical agencies of official poverty statistics for the monitoring
of the MDG to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015 is one of the
highlights of the Conference.
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