MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS

• Definition: MDGs are eight international development goals that were established following the millennium summit of the United Nations millennium Declaration.
• All 189 UN member states at the time [there are 193 currently] and at least 23 international
• Committed to help achieve the MDGs by
• Theme was “health for all”
• They had a total of 8 goals and 18 targets

Millennium developmental Goals

• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5: Improve maternal health
• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Achievement and failures of the millennium developmental goals and targets in Uganda The six targets Uganda has already met or is projected to achieve are:

1. Target 1.A; Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
2. Target 6.B; Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it3
3. Target C; Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
4. Target 8.D; Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
5. Target E; In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
6. Target F; In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

The three targets likely to be missed narrowly are:

1. Target C; Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
2. Target A; Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
3. Target C; Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

The four targets Uganda will not achieve are:

1. Target A; Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
2. Target A; Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
3. Target A; Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
4. Target A; have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

Challenges that faced the implementation of Millennium developmental Goals

• Lack of financial support
• Data collection is difficult
• Some mothers deliver from (in) villages
• Highly populated area
• Corruption in distribution of funds
• Insecurity
• Lack of political support
• Inadequate infrastructure
• Limited health personnel due to lack concentration on science subjects
• Climate diseases affecting Agricultural sector
• Poor administration g. in government departments and health sectors
• Language barriers
• Tropical diseases
• Lack of awareness [Adults]
• Hostile tribes
• Differences in fundamental ©
• Cultural beliefs and norms
• Lack of self-drive

ABBREVIATIONS

• HIPC: Heavily Indebted poor
• OECD: Organization for Economic cooperation and Development [source © the millennium Development Goals list Global Ministries.
• MDRI : Multilateral Debt relief Initiative

Challenges faced by the implementation of MDGs included:

• Lack of financial support.
• Difficult data collection.
• Mothers delivering in villages.
• Highly populated areas.
• Corruption in distribution of funds.
• Insecurity.
• Lack of political support.
• Inadequate infrastructure.
• Limited health personnel due to lack of concentration on science subjects.
• Climate diseases affecting agriculture.
• Poor administration.
• Language barriers.
• Tropical diseases.
• Lack of awareness (Adults).
• Hostile tribes.
• Differences in fundamental ©.
• Cultural beliefs and norms.
• Lack of self-drive.