Children
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Cultural Foundation Global Understanding Workshop, Spring 2012. It focuses on Children in two regions: South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Children and the Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, 189 nations made a promise to free people from extreme poverty and multiple deprivations. This pledge became the eight Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. "Eradicating extreme poverty continues to be one of the main challenges of our time, and is a major concern of the international community. Ending this scourge will require the combined efforts of all. The Millennium Development Goals set time bound targets, in order to reduce
Gender Perspective to understanding the MDG’s
2015
income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and exclusion — while promoting gender equality, health, education and environmental sustainability. They also embody basic human rights — the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter and security. The Goals are ambitious but feasible and, together we can set the course for the world’s efforts to alleviate extreme poverty by 2015. "
Target Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education, no later than 2015.
-United Nations SecretaryGeneral BAN Ki-moon
In effort to achieve gender equality, the United Nations defined the concept of mainstreaming a gender perspective. Globally women and children are often most affected by extreme poverty, disease, lack of shelter and exclusion. The idea is that gender perspectives should be at the core of each MDG. Attempting to achieve the MDGs without promoting gender equality could both raise the costs and decrease the likelihood of achieving the other goals. The MDG’s provide a basic roadmap for development and gender equality is the 3rd goal, but it’s also integral to achieving all eight MDGs. This idea enables the ‘concerns and experiences of women to be an integral part of the entire MDG process.