Introduction Since the 1990s, international organisations and funding bodies have become increasingly interested in the plight of pastoralists. Donors have compelled recipient countries with large numbers of pastoralists to take on board this agenda, pressuring governments to focus more on pastoralist issues in their Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Increasing donor support for the pa...

The United Nations Declaration of 2000 agreed on eight millennium development goals (MDGs) to be met in 2015. The results show that poverty continues through population growth and advances in both rich and poor countries are threatened by economic crises and inequities in geographic areas and population groups within countries. In a globalized world with great social and economic inequalities, ...

One of the most important and visionary global actions of recent years was the September 2000 commitment by 189 governments worldwide to " [make] the right to development a reality for everyone and to [free] the entire human race from want " [1]. The movement to achieve sustainable reductions across all dimensions of extreme poverty has reached an unprecedented level, with efforts primarily foc...

D espite impressive improvements since the launch of the millennium development goals (MDGs), many countries will not reach the targets on maternal and child mortality, partly because of the lack of attention to determinants of health (box 1) beyond the health sector. For example, the 2010-15 Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, launched by the United Nations secretary general to ...

considering the expansion of global poverty and its resulting concerns, the objectives of the millennium development goals (mdgs) may not be achieved unless a solution is found for this widespread phenomenon. therefore finding a solution for poverty reduction and improving the welfare of the vulnerable group has become a universal objective. this paper discusses the poor performance of formal f...

To cite: Chopra M, Mason E. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1):s2–s4. INTRODUCTION The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) arose from one of the largest ever gathering of world leaders in New York in September 2000. Collectively, 189 countries adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which evolved into the MDG. These ambitious targets—ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing mat...

This paper examines the significance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development in Africa arising from the fact that ICTs have not been put into the mainstream of development in Africa while analysing the possibilities of mainstreaming the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into Nigeria’s development agenda by anchoring the study on the technological deter...

The year 2005 marks the beginning of the "International Decade for Action: Water for Life" and renewed effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) to reduce by half the proportion of the world's population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015. Currently, UNICEF and WHO estimate that 1.1 billion people lack access to improved water supplies and 2...

Access to good-quality health services is crucial for the improvement of many health outcomes, such as those targeted by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the international community in 2000. The health-related MDGs cannot be achieved if vulnerable populations do not have access to skilled personnel and to other necessary inputs. This paper focuses on the geographical dimension...