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Comment by Isha Wedasinghe Miranda on October 3, 2012 at 10:38am

In Sri Lanka MDG has archived reasonably well in many goals. Nevertheless it  has been paying particular attention to the issue of regional disparities in human development. Since the Millennium Summit in 2000, one of the main thrusts of UNDP’s work has been to promote the use of the MDGs as the policy framework and  Sri Lanka is to promote the MDG agenda and support MDG monitoring.

Comment by Bhavani on February 28, 2012 at 7:08pm

Well as on date, we are far from the goal of realising the MDGs in another 3 years. As a country with the largest population of malnourished in the world, MDG 1 is a distant dream. Unless we sit up and review our priorities, admit that this is a situation of crisis and make food and nutrition security and create an enabling policy environment as countries like Brazil have done it will remain a receding goal.  

Comment by RAMESH SIVASHANMUGHAM on February 25, 2012 at 1:21pm

MDGs goals are very difficult to be achieved especially in health and sanitation with respect to India. Sanitation scenario is worst in many cities. Many government efforts have failed to achieve the objective. 

Comment by Mugisa Jared on February 24, 2012 at 7:34pm

According to the third series Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report 2010, 
Uganda has made important progress towards many of the MDG targets. Progress has been particularly strong in reducing the share of the population that lives in poverty, and Uganda is on track to meet the MDG target of halving poverty by 2015. There has also been significant progress towards reducing the share of the population sufering from hunger. Moreover, the report shows that progress has been made in terms of gender equality and empowerment of women. The target of gender parity between boys and girls in primary education has been achieved, and the country is on track to meet the targets for access to HIV/AIDS treatment and access to safe water. There has also been progress in areas related to the global partnership for development, notably in ensuring debt relief and sustainability, as well as expanding access to information and communication technology. According to the same report however, there is unevenness 

in how the beneits are being shared. Levels of poverty are more than twice as high in rural areas than in urban areas, and poverty levels remain higher—and have fallen less rapidly—in the northern and eastern regions of the country. Moreover, the level of inequality in Uganda has increased compared to the early 1990s. This suggests that the quality of economic growth needs to be improved in order to have a strong downward influence on poverty and to ensure that growth is inclusive. Like I hinted during the dissemination of the second series report 2007 in Fort Portal, MDGs achievement will require a great deal of grassroots' participation if better results are to be realized. As far as I can mention; there has been little local governments and civil society involvement in the implementation and monitoring of the MDGs. The MDGs were never localized enough to be able to get the people buy-in. They are more known as a foreign agenda where the government is seen as just a conduit. All this notwithstanding; given the case of Uganda, if the MDGs can be localized enough to include people participation, they are achievable. Good luck. 

Comment by Olusola Bamidele George on June 5, 2011 at 12:54am

MDG is achievable once all concern stakeholders accept to play their roles

Comment by K.Y.Babu on April 28, 2011 at 10:03am

In India it is very difficult to meet MDG goal by 2015-on Sanitation because of the following reasons :

As we know very well that, In India we have more mobile phone than toilet. Government commitment of  " Toilet for all " by 2012 only achivable target, if we construct a toilet every second for a year.

According to UNICEF & WHO 683 million people out of 1.1 billion people workd wide who defecate in the open are Indians. Nation wide TSC seheme constructed morre than 1.5 millon toilets per year, but many un used due to various reasons.

Govt. is giving priority to implement welfare sehemes not on Toilet. Our country has implemented various sechems for toilet construction for the past 25 years. But some how we are lacking in achiving the Total Sanitation.

 

We need to construct toilets in top pirority in all over India, otherwise we might fail to achive MDG goal on Sanitation.

K.Y.Babu, WASH Institute

 

Comment by Nyang'ori Ohenjo on April 27, 2011 at 6:34pm

It is highyly unlikely that MDGs will be achieved in the remaining period. Minoritioes and indigenous peoples have largely remained excluded in these processes, in spite of the fact that they form substaintial parts of the population and they are almost always the most poor. Recognising and respecting their rights, and therefore mainstreaming these rights and concerns in development and policy agenda has remained elusive and governments and development agencies have shown little willingness to do so. Without the exclusion of this signifucant part of the population being addressed, MDGs will remain elusive.

Comment by Sathyanand on February 26, 2011 at 12:43pm

To easily grasp the concept of MDG I tried to develop a MindMap of the same.. check it out.. at
http://mind-mapped.blogspot.com/2011/02/millennium-development-goals-8-goals-21.html
Click the image to enlarge..

Comment by Sridhar Krishnan on February 15, 2011 at 11:17am

MDGs atleast have given a direction to the worlds development path. Strategically almost all the nations are in line to these goals. This Declaration by UN has high impacts across the world nations in framing policies and mobilising funds for this cause. Though it is impractical to achieve it by 2015 may be with larger time frame this could be achieved. Directions should not change and keep going even after 2015. This is an important milestone in the worlds Development History.

Comment by Semwanga Margaret Azuba on January 2, 2011 at 4:31pm

Yes, i strongly believe MDGs can be achieved, only if the Politicians put it as a priority on their Agenda. I appreciate that the technical Professionals in developing countries are trying their best but still need the political will to achieve their plans of achieving the MDGS

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