Leadership is an important factor in building collaborative governance, even leadership capacity would also affect the effectiveness of ongoing collaborations. This study aims to describe map and governance studies through a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) over period 5 years. was chosen connection with transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Sustainable (SDGs.) The literature that w...

Previous reviews of nutritional status in children under 5 years describe the Caribbean grouped with Latin America. This paper focuses specifically on the Caribbean and the goals and targets of the Millennium Declaration that have bearing on childhood development. The results indicate that CARICOM countries have made progress in terms of child health as assessed by gross health indicators. Yet,...

On Jan 15–17, 2013, over 800 experts in maternal health came together in Arusha, Tan zania, to present the latest evidence on improving the quality of care for women during pregnancy and childbirth. The past 25 years of the safe motherhood movement have seen extraordinary successes—notably a 33% reduction in maternal mortality from 409 053 in 1990 to 273 465 in 2011. These achieve ments have mo...

The commitment of governments to sustainable development was materialised in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and later Sustainable (SDGs), latter being a more ambitious project that positions local as main agents for its implementation. With aim improving sustainability cities, this research analyses Spanish SDG-11, indicating possible improvements with complying Agenda 2030. We use X-S...

In 2000, 189 member states of the United Nations (UN) developed a plan for peace and development, which resulted in eight actionable goals known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Since their inception, the MDGs have been considered the international standard for measuring development progress and have provided a blueprint for global health policy and programming. However, emphasis upo...

There have been recent indications that the primacy of AIDS among global health issues may be under threat. In this article we examine one response to have emerged from the AIDS policy community as a result of this perceived threat: the 'AIDS plus Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)' approach, which argues that the AIDS response (the focus of MDG6) is essential to achieving the other MDG target...