Discrepant estimates of key indicators for Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5: the public sector's experience in Rwanda

The Lancet ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 381 ◽  
pp. S16
Author(s):  
Agnes Binagwaho ◽  
Fidele Ngabo ◽  
Cathy Mugeni ◽  
Corine Karema ◽  
Maurice Gatera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Key Indicators

scholarly journals An Overview of Key Indicators of HMIS: Experiences with Haryana

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Tarun Bala
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Health ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
And Child Health

<div><p><em>Reducing maternal and child mortality is the most important goal of the National Rural Health Mission. Indian government has worked towards its commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.  Huge investments are being made by Government of India to achieve these goals. A well framed roadmap is being developed for accelerating child survival and improving maternal health and 16 indicators is selected for this purpose. The improvement in these indicators shows the way towards the achievement of MDGs.  India has made considerable progress over the last few years since NRHM in the area of maternal and child health, which was further accelerated after introduction of RMNCHA+ () strategy which appropriately directs the states to focus their efforts on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged sections of the society in the country. Main focus is healthy mothers and child. It also emphasizes on the need to reinforce efforts in those poor performing districts that have already been identified as the high focus districts. ‘Continuum care’ is required to have equal focus on various life stages.  Improvement in these indicators provide an understanding the importance of ‘continuum of care’ to ensure equal focus on various life stages. Some low performing districts had shown an improvement over period of time in its RMNCHA+ indicators.</em></p></div>

scholarly journals ENLIVENING THE MOSQUE AS A PUBLIC SPACE FOR SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF TRADITIONAL MALAY SETTLEMENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Najiha Jaffar ◽  
Nor Zalina Harun ◽  
Alias Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
Religious Aspects

Public spaces are vital elements of settlement fabrics that animate communities together in one place. Nevertheless, most public places are used for recreational purposes only without building on communal activities, especially in religious aspects. Therefore, to achieve robust social sustainability, this study aims to identify the key indicators for ensuring social sustainability of traditional settlements’ public spaces. This study explores the typologies of public spaces found in traditional settlements that fill the needs of the local community. A mixed methodology was used to map and observe the public spaces and the communal activities held in two traditional Malay settlements in Kuala Terengganu. The bulk of the data were randomly collected from 400 residents by using a questionnaire survey to identify the most relevant factors that influence social sustainability. The results show that mosques have been listed as the highest preference of public space in the two sampled settlements. The study outlines three key qualities that lead the community to choose the mosque as the most important public space: 1) convenient access, 2) comfortable and clean, and 3) social aspects. This paper concludes on how these findings contribute to the improvement of quality of life, social interaction and social cohesion to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally.

8. Whither poverty?

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-136
Author(s):  
Philip N. Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Creation

A world without extreme poverty is still some way off, but there have been moments where some actual poverty reduction occurred. ‘Whither poverty?’ considers three of the post-1960 attempts to place poverty reduction on the public agenda: President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 War on Poverty, the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals set out in 2000, and their Sustainable Development Goals outlined in 2015. It concludes that the goal of action against poverty is the creation of a world where every individual’s opportunity to thrive (not just survive) can be independent of the circumstances of their birth, if they choose. Poverty matters because it is an obstacle to our progress, properly defined.

scholarly journals Problems and Prospects of Millennium Development Goals in Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 624
Author(s):  
Olusola Olasupo ◽  
S. R. Plaatjie
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Rural Dwellers

Ghana, like other developing nations, was not left behind in embracing the eight time-bound Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in September 2000. The millennium development goals aimed towards peace and good standards of living have been faced with series of problems in its attainment in Ghana. These problems have undermined the extent to which Ghana could achieve the MDGs. The study adopting qualitative research method shows that Ghana is faced with difficulty in achieving these eight millennium development goals in certain portions of the nation most especially in the rural communities due to lack of infrastructure. The study therefore recommends that Ghana should focus more on improving the standard of living of the rural dwellers by increasing the public services in the area.  The need for Ghana to focus more on solving these problems is strategic for a better result in this new era of Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Public Private Partnership in the Provision of Health Services for the Millennium Development Goals: The Imperative Need for Optimizing the Public-Private Mix

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (29) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Maximus N. O. Asogwa ◽  
Severus I. Odoziobodo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Goals

Nigeria, with its large public sector, equally has an extensive wellestablished private sector; even with the ravages of the recent economic crisis. Both sectors play complementary and important roles as providers of expertise and as implementing agencies. Public-Private Partnership (PPP), the paper posits, is therefore an effort where the government of Nigeria provides the minimum standards required for coordinated collaboration with private sector, in the case of this study, the health sector. Notwithstanding various investment efforts from the public and private sectors into the Nigeria health economy, the performance of the national health system remains deplorable. The paper believes that the declining resource allocation to health, increasing costs and the breakdown in the public health facilities, make the achievement of health-related MDGs’, Millennium Development Goals’, (now SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals’) targets difficult. It is on the basis of this that the study, examines the pattern and scope of existing collaborations, including the nature, distribution of stakeholders in the sector and the characteristics of PPP in the health sector. It also examines the challenges, options and potentials for future partnership. These are examined within the strategic framework of MDGs and suggestions are made on how to overcome the challenges of public-private interventions to ensure effective policy interventions in the current Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs.

In pursuit of the millennium development goals in water and sanitation

Water Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey Brown ◽  
Arthur Holcombe
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

In recognition of the United Nations designating 2003 as the “Year for Fresh Water” and the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in water and sanitation, the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) convened speakers to address strategies for meeting these goals. Water professionals from the public sector, private sector and non-governmental organizations shared their experiences and recommendations. Over the course of the discussions, three themes emerged that appear critical for implementing successful water initiatives. First, the water and sanitation. nancing gap requires mobilization of local capital through innovative financial tools. Second, public institutions that manage water must be focused and enabled to carry out their mandate effectively. Private sector collaboration can only succeed when coupled with strong public partners. Third, the MDG cannot be met with conventional technological approaches. Technology must be appropriate to the. nancial and technical context to which it is applied and must engender ef.cient use of water resources.

Negotiating international development: The making of the Millennium Development Goals

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-43
Author(s):  
Iris Borowy
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
International Development ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) evolved in the competition between two perspectives on development: one that sees the reasons for poverty and misery in the specificities of the countries concerned (the localist view) and another that looks at the global context, including and especially the policies of “developed” high-income countries (the globalist view). The core of the MDGs emerged in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and shifted the public focus from the globalist approaches of recent United Nations (UN) conferences to a localist approach. Subsequent UN discussions broadened the perspective again, leading to a more hybrid final form. In the process, goals on equitable trade and financial relations, on market access for products from the Least Developed Countries and on HIV/AIDS and malaria were added, while a goal on access to reproductive health was dropped. Meanwhile, inherent economic–environmental contradictions have remained unresolved. Spanish Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) evolucionaron a través de la competencia entre dos puntos de vista sobre el desarrollo: uno que ve las razones de la pobreza y la miseria en las especificidades de los países en cuestión (la visión localista) y otro que las ve en el contexto global, incluyendo especialmente las políticas de los países “desarrollados” de altos ingresos (la visión globalista). El núcleo de los ODM surgió en la Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE) y cambió la perspectiva pública de enfoques globalistas de las conferencias recientes de Naciones Unidas por un enfoque localista. Discusiones posteriores de las Naciones Unidas ampliaron la perspectiva de nuevo, dando lugar a una forma final más híbrida. A lo largo de este proceso, se añadieron metas sobre el comercio justo y las relaciones financieras, el acceso a los mercados para los productos de los países menos adelantados, el VIH/SIDA y la malaria, mientras que se redujo el objetivo del acceso a la salud reproductiva. Mientras tanto, las contradicciones inherentes a temas económicos y ambientales han quedado sin resolver. French Les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) ont évolué entre deux points de vue concurrents sur le développement : celui qui voit les causes de la pauvreté et de la misère dans les spécificités des pays concernés — la vision localiste — et un autre qui prend en considération le contexte mondial, y compris surtout les politiques des pays «développés» -la vision mondialiste-. Le noyau des OMD a émergé au sein de l'OCDE et il a détourné l'attention publique des approches globalistes des conférences récentes des Nations Unies vers une approche localiste. Les discussions ultérieures des Nations Unies ont de nouveau élargi la perspective, conduisant finalement à une forme plus hybride. Au cours de ce processus, les objectifs en matière de commerce équitable et de relations financières, l'accès aux marchés pour les produits des pays les moins avancés et ceux qui concernent le VIH / sida et le paludisme ont été ajoutés, tandis que l'objectif de l'accès à la santé reproductive a été abandonné alors que les contradictions inhérentes à l'économie et à l'environnement sont restées en suspens

The Role of Science and Technology in the 21st Century

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 357-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cowan Coventry
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Development Goals

While our world is being transformed by rapid developments in ‘new’ technology, nearly one-third of humanity continues to be deprived of the benefits available from technologies centuries old. Northern markets rather than Southern needs increasingly determine what scientific and technological advances are developed and for whom. We urgently need to reclaim science and technology for the public good as well as private gain if we are to meet the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. However, rather than simply applying technologies to poverty, we need to help poor women and men access useful knowledge so that they can choose and use appropriate technologies.

scholarly journals A review on mHealth research in developing countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wallace Chigona ◽  
Mphatso Nyemba ◽  
Andile Metfula
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Potential Tool

Governments and development agencies are advocating mobile technology as a potential tool for developing and improving livelihoods, especially in developing countries where traditional technologies have failed to gain ground for wide ranging reasons. It is, therefore, understandable that the use of mobile technology in health care (mHealth) is growing in developing countries. Healthcare is one of the challenges facing developing countries, with the majority of the countries still lagging behind in most of the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Goals 4, 5 and 6). Due to the nascence of the domain, research in the domain is still in its infancy and, as such, there is little evidence to support the claims about the impact of the technology. The aim of this paper is to analyse the progress of mHealth as well as the progress of the research in the domain in developing countries. Data for the study are mHealth papers presented at the Third Mobile for Development (M4D) Conference which took place in India between 28th and 29th February 2012. The review notes the following about research in mHealth in developing countries: (i) Most interventions are patient-facing; this provides opportunities for using mHealth to empower the public; (ii) The interventions use a growing range of technological solutions; (iii) Most research still focuses on pilot projects as opposed to scaled-up projects and (iv) Research in the domain still lacks rigour.

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