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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Millennium development goal"”.
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Progress towards achieving the United Nations' first Millennium Development Goal: an analysis of income and food poverty in Nigeria's states of Osun and Jigawa
… progress towards attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals’(MDGs) targets on poverty reduction in these states in order to verify claims of previous studies and analyses regarding these. The study uses both the individual and the family household in both Osun and Jigawa States …
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A conceptual and empirical investigation into measuring aspects of urban food security in 12 Southern African cities
… nature the United Nations (UN) has made it a Millennium Development Goal (MDG). Without a focus on urban food security the UN MDGs, regional goals and national goals will not be achievable. There is an urgent need to collect evidence and monitor the food security situation at the urban scale …
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Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study
Post the Millennium Development Goal project a significant number of countries are still faced with the challenge of monitoring child mortality. Despite numerous enquiries since 1996 to provide this basic health indicator, South Africa has experienced prolonged periods of uncertainty regarding the …
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Understanding the significance of the social determinants of health on the outcome of complicated surgical neonates at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
The United Nations Millennium Declaration conference held in September of 2000, set key Millennium Development Goals. Millennium Development Goal 4 requires a reduction in the mortality rate of children under the age of five years by two-thirds by the year 2015, from a baseline in 1990. In South …
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Water quality analysis of the piped water supply in Tamale, Ghana
The United Nation's Millennium Development Goal Target 7.C is to "halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water". While the UN claimed to have met this goal, studies have shown that the "improved" sources used as a metric to track progress do not …
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Views of Parents on Inclusive Education For Children With Disabilities: A Gender dimension Case Study of St.Lawrence Basic School In Lusaka Urban District
… were also elicited. In consideration of the Millennium Development Goal number 4-Basic Education For All by 2015, they were to indicate by gender whether there was any collaboration between the professional in the school system and the community (parents/guardians) prior to the initiation of …
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Views of Parents on Inclusive Education For Children With Disabilities: A Gender Case Study of St.Lawrence Basic School In Lusaka Urban District
… were also elicited. In consideration of the Millennium Development Goal number 4-Basic Education For All by 2015, they were to indicate by gender whether there was any collaboration between the professional in the school system and the community (parents/guardians) prior to the initiation of …
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Views of Parents on Inclusive Education For Children With Disabilities: A Gender dimension Case Study of St.Lawrence Basic School In Lusaka Urban District
… were also elicited. In consideration of the Millennium Development Goal number 4-Basic Education For All by 2015, they were to indicate by gender whether there was any collaboration between the professional in the school system and the community (parents/guardians) prior to the initiation of …
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Views of Parents on Inclusive Education For Children With Disabilities: A Gender Case Study of St.Lawrence Basic School In Lusaka Urban District
… were also elicited. In consideration of the Millennium Development Goal number 4-Basic Education For All by 2015, they were to indicate by gender whether there was any collaboration between the professional in the school system and the community (parents/guardians) prior to the initiation of …
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Investigation into the success and failures of Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) as a service delivery tool in Makhado Local Municipality
Integrated Development Plans were made a legal requirement for municipalities in the Local Government Transition Act: Second Amendment Act, 97 of 1996, their conceptualization at a policy level was very limited. Thus, the requirements for IDP overlap to some extent with the planning requirements of …
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An investigation into strategies for mobilising resources within the adult education directorate in Otjozondjupa region
The Education for All Action Plan (2002), Millennium Development Goal Report (2008), National Development Plan 4 (2012) and the Ministry of Education Strategic Plan (2012) acknowledge the need for resource mobilisation strategies to help finance adult education. Studies on Namibia resource …
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Sustentabilidade da água: uma abordagem na Rio +20.
… of Rio de Janeiro from 13 to 22 June 2012, whose goal was to discuss the renewed political commitment to sustainable development, recomentando changes, mode is being used with the planet's natural resources. The Millennium Development Goal reached halve the proportion of people without access to …
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Determinants of Levels and Trends in Child Mortality in Rural Northern Malawi
… success in reducing child mortality during the Millennium Development Goal period, the work presented here aimed to develop a detailed epidemiological understanding of local trends in child survival in rural Malawi by identifying the subgroups of children among whom, and the causes of death from …
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Influences of HIV on exclusive breastfeeding: an exploration of community-based peer support in rural Malawi
… Sub-Saharan Africa and is central to achieving Millennium Development Goal number 4 for child health. However, despite the benefits of EBF to infants and mothers, the rates continue to decrease as the age of the infant increases in an African cultural context including Malawi. There is …
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A model for teaching green information systems in higher education
… to address global challenges such as the seventh Millennium Development Goal of ensuring an interconnectedness of society and the environment. Many academic disciplines have recognised that sustainability is one of the most significant challenges of our time and thus needs to be included in …
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Sustainability of Rural Water Services in Low-Income Countries: Case studies in sub-Saharan Africa
… unsustainable and it is unlikely that the Millennium Development Goal target for safe drinking water in rural areas will be met. This is particularly so in sub-Saharan Africa, which has the lowest coverage of water services in the world. The question, therefore, is why, despite all the …
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Translating MDG 3: Gender, Empowerment and the Adolescent Girl in Maharashtra, India
This thesis is an exploration of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3, tracing its path from a global aspiration to its translation into a developing world context. Adopted in 2001 by the United Nations, the eight MDGs represented a global effort to address issues such as poverty, health, social …
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Formation and Characterisation of Nanostructured Polypyrrole Films: Their Growth on Membrane Supports and Application in Heavy Metal Remediation
The Millennium Development Goal to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water, was met in 2010, with an additional two billion people gaining access to improved sources of drinking water since 1990. However in 2013, the United Nations Year of …
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Public acceptance of alternative building technologies for rural housing development in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Target 11 states, "By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers." Indicator 32 (7.2) of the MDGs clarifies the expected outcome as "the proportion of households with access to secure tenure." The …
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Improving utilization of maternal health related services: the impact of a community health worker pilot programme in Neno Malawi
… and emergency obstetric care (EmOC), Malawi’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing maternal deaths to 155 deaths per 100,000 live births was not met by the end of 2015. Between 2010 and 2015, Malawi was only able to reduce the MMR from 675 to 439 per 100,000 live births. …
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