Continue effort to ensure safe drinking water
Bangladesh needs to scale up measures for ensuring access to safe (arsenic and pathogen free) drinking water to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in water supply and sanitation by 2015.
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Reaching for the SDGs: the unfulfilled potential of Tanzania’s water Supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector- executive summary
The purpose of the document is to lay out the findings from this diagnostic exercise. Its key messages include stressing the need to reach higher to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets
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Global tuberculosis report 2015
This is the twentieth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing
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Rich nations are not doing their bit'
The developed countries are not standing by their commitment to provide 0.7% of their GDP as funds for the developing world towards achieving the millennium development goals, said UN Millennium
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Poverty, inequality, and evaluation: changing perspectives
The basic premise of this report is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political
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Key recommendations in new UN report on poverty
Following are the main proposals issued from an advisory body the United Nations set up to help achieve its Millennium development goals. Those goals, agreed in 2000, are to cut in half extreme
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Climate change as part of the post-2015 development agenda
<p> The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have increased support for poverty reduction. For over a decade, they have provided a ‘moral compass’ to measure progress towards crucial human
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Neonatal, maternal mortality rates still high Says Unicef Country Report 2009
Although the country has made significant progress in reducing under-five child mortality, the rates of neonatal and maternal mortality still remain high, creating obstacle to achieving the target of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) four and five by 2015.
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Rajasthan NGO to create awareness about U.N. goals
A Rajasthan based non government organisation has bagged a prestigious United Nations assignment to raise awareness on the significance and ownership of the Millennium Development Goals
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'Govt. claims on achievements lofty'
The policy formulation, declarations and achievements of the Government in the context of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were examined in a report released in Jaipur on
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5.8% growth must for S Asia to reduce poverty by mid-2015
South Asia will need to maintain the average economic growth rate of 5.8% it achieved in 1995-2005 to achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) of reducing extreme poverty by mid-2015. According
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Meet on Millennium Development Goals begins today
The Chiba, Japan-based United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP) is organising a three-day inception seminar on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG. The Union
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Unemployment at a record high: ILO report
Despite encouraging progress in reducing poverty and improving the working lives of people in Asia under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), unemployment reached a record high while job growth
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Balochistan pledges to resolve water issues
Balochistan will play its role in the formation of a national drinking water and sanitation policy to make it a comprehensive and effective document for achieving UN millennium development goals.
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80pc literacy rate by 2010, says minister
Pakistan Minister for Education Lt-Gen (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi has said the ountry will achieve the targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the education sector. He was
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Record improvement in water projects
The Government has made a record improvement in the completion and expansion of water projects throughout the country in keeping with the UN-declared Millennium Development Goal of providing access
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Nepal likely to fall behind in health goals
Nepal is likely to fall behind the race in meeting Millennium Development Goals, given the alarming gap in Basic and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric facilities, Dr Sudha Sharma, president of Nepal
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Health is wealth
An additional 2.5% growth in government health spending as a share of the Gross Domestic Product would enable India and South Asian states, to reach their Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015,
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WB chief coming with aid promise
"India's development success will play a critical role in attaining the millennium development goal of halving poverty by 2015," World Bank president James D Wolfensohn said prior to his two-day
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Achieving the malaria MDG target: reversing the incidence of malaria 2000–2015
Malaria death rates have plunged by 60% since 2000, translating into 6.2 million lives saved, the vast majority of them children, according to a joint WHO-UNICEF report released today. The report – “Achieving