Question

Please I need assistance with this assignment- Select one of the United Nations' (U.N.) Millennial Development Goals (MDGs). Visit the website and report on the UN's progress in achieving this goal? How will meeting this goal positively impact the health of the world? What suggestions would you make to help the UN achieve this goal? Please write from scratch, include citations and at least 3 references. Thank you

Answer 1

The millennium development goals have targeted eight key areas – poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, disease, the environmentand global partnership.

To highlight, I would like to discuss MDG-8th

Develop global partnership for Development

orking towards this, the eighth MDG – calling for a Global Partnership for Development – is probably the most important. It reflects the fact that the fates of all people and nations are linked. Unless we can help the world’s poor create a better life, no one’s prosperity can be secure.

Achievements of MDG 8 include:

• A 66 percent increase in official development assistance from developed nations in real terms in the period 2000 to 2014, reaching $135.2 billion
• In 2014, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Luxembourg continued to exceed the UN official development assistance target of 0.7 percent of gross national income
• Imports from developing to developed countries admitted duty-free increased from 65 percent in 2000 to 79 percent in 2014
• The proportion of external debt service to export revenue in the developing world reduced from 12 to 3 percent between 2000 and 2013.
• 95 percent of the global population is covered by a mobile cellular signal as of 2015
• The number of mobile-cellular subscription has grown by nearly tenfold in the last 15 years, from 738 million to over 7 billion between 2000 and 2015
• Internet penetration has increased from about 6 percent of the global population to 43 percent between 2000 and 2015. Consequently, 3.2 billion people are now linked to an international network of content and applications.

Develop a global partnership for Development

Suggestions

• Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally.
• Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
• Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States.
• Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term.
• In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth.
• In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies.