Millennium Development Goal Achievements and Policies in Education and Health: What Has Been Learnt?
Millennium Development Goal No. 5, which calls on nations to reduce maternal mortality by three-fourths between 1990 and 2015.
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You certainly won't hear these people celebrating achieving this water Millennium Development Goal when their need remains so great.
The town's economic development goal is a net gain in the next census.
Without India, the world cannot reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of having every child complete primary school by 2015.
And every day we get closer to the Millennium Development Goal deadline of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
We have one chance left to deliver by 2015 our Millennium Development Goal promise that every young child will go to school.
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Back to that piece about how China achieved its economic development goal.
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Recent water sector data suggests that claims of considerable progress towards Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets is sadly premature, as some like myself have suggested elsewhere.
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The peer also called on the government to consider introducing a ninth millennium development goal with the aim of reducing the current 30 conflicts around the world by 2015.
With the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target date rapidly approaching and discussions about the post-MDG development framework taking place at the highest levels, the time to act is now.
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The Broadband Commission Report emphasized the importance of broadband as a means of accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of Universal Primary Education and the Education for All goals.
But while the scale of improvements in child survival is immense, globally we are still far short of achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 to reduce child mortality by two-thirds.
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After I returned to the UK I found that even though maternal mortality is one of the Millennium Development Goal targets, there was no discussion about it taking place at the upcoming G8 summits.
However, biodiversity and ecosystem services are declining at an unprecedented rate and the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
Twelve had falls of over 4.4% a year, which is the rate of decline that is needed to meet the millennium development goal (MDG) of cutting by two-thirds the child-mortality rate between 1990 and 2015 (see chart).
As UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and the UN advocate for the second Millennium Development Goal on primary education, I am passionate about bringing the benefits of education to children and communities across the world.
It is estimated, for instance, that some 2.5 million new engineers and technicians will be needed in sub-Saharan Africa alone if the region is to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of improved access to clean water and sanitation.
Pakistan on Friday asked to join the Accelerated Millennium Development Goal Framework process that will allow the country to assess its current education plans, strategies and obstacles to delivery in consultation with international organizations and then work together to contribute to Pakistan's dream of education for all.
Additionally, The UN Foundation is currently leading a large-scale, multi-stakeholder advocacy effort which seeks to strengthen the leadership role of the United States in advancing progress toward the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets of universal access to reproductive health by 2015.
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If economic development is the goal, they will achieve it.
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Over the last two years, organizations of different stripes have joined their effort to identify market-based approaches to enterprise development with the goal of increasing the number of women vendors active in the global economy.
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But if it is to achieve the goal of development over the next decade, more reform will be needed.
Scott Keller, deputy chief of staff for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says the goal of mixed-income housing is to minimize differences between the city's poor and middle-class.
The U.S. global development policy and the G-20 development plan share the goal of helping countries reduce their dependence on foreign assistance by mobilizing foreign investment and domestic capital to foster sustained economic growth.
More broadly, we recommitted ourselves and our leadership to the goal of global development.
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Security Council, we discussed how we can work together around the world, including our shared goal of promoting development in Africa, where Portugal has historic ties.
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