"Uniting a new Millennium" Africa as One supports the
UN Millennium Goals.
For information on the UN Millennium goals, and how AAO will impact them, click here.
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U.N. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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What are the UN Millennium Goals? How Is AAO Helping?
What are the UN Millennium Goals?
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
- Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
- Reduce child mortality
- Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
- Improve maternal health
- Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
- Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources
- Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
- Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
- Develop a global partnership for development
- 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
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How Is AAO Helping to Make the U.N. Millennium Development Goals a Reality in Africa?
Recent years have seen the international community direct billions of dollars into humanitarian relief and development programs in Africa, resulting in an increase in the number of non-government organizations (NGOs) working to address critical areas of need in Africa. This influx of attention can be attributed, at least partially, to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. However, many NGOs are unable to meet their projected goals—despite the best intentions. As a result, Africa is not on track to meet a single U.N. Millennium Development Goal by year 2015.
Africa As One believes that these goals can still be attained if grant makers and NGOs across the continent are unified through quantifiable, concrete data and best practice models.
Africa As One is working to lay down the solid groundwork that has been missing from aid dispensation in Africa—the groundwork that will help Africa meet the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. By collating and analyzing the hard data on the myriad efforts that are underway, AAO plans to help guide NGOs—by working directly with grant makers—achieve a high level of accountability, transparency and integrity (ATI) at a time when millions of lives hang in the balance.
“How are we doing? Check out the MDGMonitor to track progress on the UN Millennium goals” |
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