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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"millennium development goals"”.
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The global development agenda and the human rights of women in Africa
2015 signals the end of the Millennium Development Goals. Amidst the present reflection on, and analysis of, the progress of the implementation of the current development agenda, the draft post-2015 SDGs are in the final stages of their development. With the imminent adoption of the new goals by UN …
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Economic Development and Child Nutrition in Nepal
… and shorten the time required to attain the Millennium Development Goals. This dissertation includes three essays that use a range of data, including nationally representative data on the growth of children nutrition below five years of age, to identify potential pathways for improving child …
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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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An Analysis of Maternal Health in Burkina Faso
… the world have focused on achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, the fifth of which is to “improve maternal health”. Burkina Faso has made good strides towards improving maternal health and has achieved a 57% reduction in the maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2010. While the …
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Education for democratic citizenship and cosmopolitanism: The case of the republic of Namibia
… system, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Moreover, an appeal is made for the Namibian citizenship education system to consolidate the idea · of cosmopolitanism, that is; hospitality and forgiveness, if the NEPAD initiative is …
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A retrospective comparative analysis of the maternal and child health MDGs in Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: Beyond 2015
The timeline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) elapsed in 2015, global indicators showed that Africa still accounts for almost half of all child deaths globally and has the world’s highest maternal mortality rates. By the year 2015, Africa as a continent was unable to meet the maternal and …
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A Ajuda Oficial pra o Desenvolvimento a partir de três perspectivas teóricas
Since the end of the World War II, development issues have become central to the international agenda. Each subsequent decade has set up scenarios with differing perspectives on development goals and strategies, but in all of them Official Development Assistance (ODA) has remained one of the main …
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Evrópusambandið og uppfylling Þúsaldarmarkmiða Sameinuðu þjóðanna
… Poverty - More and better EU aid can score Millennium Development Goals, sem kom út í apríl 2010, en hún fjallar um þau atriði sem betur mega fara í þróunaraðstoð Evrópusambandsins svo hægt verði að ná markmiðunum í tæka tíð. Markmið ritgerðarinnar er að skoða hvort Evrópusambandið og …
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Rural groundwater supply for the Volcanoes National Park region, Rwanda
… and developing countries. According to the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations, the number of people that do not have access to an improved water supply should be halved by the year 2015. Rwanda is a Sub-Saharan developing country where water scarcity is an issue. This …
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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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A Regional Approach to Analysis of Food Security Framework and Policies of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
… the World Food Program and the establishment of Millennium Development Goals. The people of West Africa are subject to repetitive natural disasters and are often in political upheaval. Many economic policies have been established to mitigate the impact that production disasters have on the …
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A comparative case study of female literacy and development in Guatemala and Bolivia
… projects and international aid were provided as development strategies in Latin America to improve gender equality in education and literacy rates during the 1990s. Female literacy was view as an important goal in obtaining human and economic development in the region of Latin America. Guatemala …
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A municipalização dos objetivos do milênio: o caso do município de Sertãozinho
… is to discuss the municipalization of the millennium development goals proposed by the United Nations from a case study in Sertaozinho, a city in the Paraiba state that is located in the microregion of Guarabira. Looking to see whether the eight millennium goals were achieved by the …
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Building evidence for improving childhood immunisation coverage in Africa.
… child mortality and contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We assessed the programme’s performance in Africa, the reasons for poor performance, and effective interventions for improving its performance on the continent. We used a combination of methods including systematic …
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Elevating Sub-Saharan Africa: The Effect of Infrastructure Investment in Alleviating Poverty
… study investigates the effect of infrastructure development on poverty reduction in 35 SubSaharan African countries from 2005 to 2015. This timeframe was chosen as it encapsulates the final 11 years of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals era, recognised as one of the most significant …
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The implementation of an integrated prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme at McCord Hospital, South Africa, 2003-2013
… morbidity and mortality, assist with achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, and help in the response to the WHO call for the elimination of MTCT, the new international PMTCT goal. Integrating PMTCT care into routine maternal and child health programmes has been recommended as a way to …
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Secondary schooling for girls in rural Uganda: challenges, opportunities and emerging identities
… All initiative as well as the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, is promoted and/or achieved in the National Strategy for Girls’ Education in Uganda (NSGE). I consider various ideological understandings of international development in general as well as development theory …
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Investigation of Hindrances Towards Women Involvement in Tour Guiding Activities in Tanzania: A Case of Arusha Municipality
… as a source of economic gain worldwide. The millennium Development Goals clearly state to "eradicate extreme poverty and hunger" as goal number one and " to promote gender equality and empower women" as goal number three. Unfortunately women do not seem to actively engage in tourism …
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