The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Punjab and Haryana figure on the list of major states in the country that are set to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) by three-fourths till the September 2015 global deadline for targets. As per the commitment on MDGs made in 1990 by all …
The Global Strategy (2016-2030) is a roadmap to achieve right to the highest attainable standard of health for all women, children and adolescents –to transform the future and ensure every newborn, mother and child not only survives, but thrives. The new Strategy - updated through a process of collaboration with …
Ghana has formally launched the final Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report in Accra on Tuesday. In line with the six previous biennial reports, the 2015 MDGs report examines progress made since 2000 towards all the goals and targets, and draws some lessons from the implementation and monitoring of the MDGs. …
With the United Nations set to discuss the post-2015 global development agenda for sustainable development in a conference which is to take place in New York between September 25 and 27, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to participate, the Union Cabinet is likely to finalise India’s stand on …
As per National Health Profile 2015, there will be 19 percent increase in cancer among men by 2020 with mouth cancer registering the highest spike and a 23 percent increase among women with gall bladder cancer showing the sharpest increase. The cancer incidence in men will rise from the current …
Fifteen years after the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and a decade after G7 leaders gathered in Gleneagles to promise to ‘make poverty history’, the end of extreme poverty is within reach. Later this week at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, …
The 2015 Report continues to monitor the five core domains of the Global Partnership for Development, namely, official development assistance (ODA), market access (trade), debt sustainability, access to affordable essential medicines and access to new technologies, as prescribed by MDG 8. This year marks the last of the series of …
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 the malaria MDG target” – shows that the malaria MDG target to “have halted and begun to …
The practice of open defecation in Ghana is still very alarming, with current data suggesting that almost a quarter of the Ghanaian population do not use any latrine facility. Statistics also indicates that access to improved sanitation in Ghana is estimated at 15 per cent against the Millennium Development Goals …
This report presents innovative policies and progammes which countries have adopted to accelerate progress on the MDGs. The aim is to help document policy innovations for SDG implementation, but also keep the focus on the unfinished business of the MDGs as countries and the global community make the transition to …
Two weeks before the 193 member-states of the United Nations approve the sustainable development agenda for 2030 in New York, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved several key objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Although these goals …
Child mortality rates have plummeted to less than half of what they were in 1990, according to a new report released. Under-five deaths have dropped from 12.7 million per year in 1990 to 5.9 million in 2015. New estimates in “Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2015,” released by …
This report from A Promise Renewed – a global partnership initiative aimed at ending preventable child and maternal deaths – features updates and analyses of global, regional and national child mortality levels and trends. It also provides current information on causes of child and maternal deaths, and coverage of key …
The Engineers’ Welfare Forum (EWF) of West Bengal Development Corporation Limited on Sunday organised a national seminar to generate awareness on renewable energy. The day-long seminar focused on creating awareness about the latest technical developments and policy adoption keeping in view the national and global perspectives of the power industry, …
The report "Water for Development – Charting a Water Wise Path" is the main input for the 2015 World Water Week and was authored by a range of global experts in the field of water and development. Among the topics addressed by the report are: the role of water in …
Today, the world leaders will adopt the new 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Read the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The final version of the draft post-2015 development agenda, titled ‘Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,' was adopted by acclamation at the conclusion of an informal plenary of …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on MDG for sanitation, 23/07/2015. Data on State/UT-wise percentage of Rural Households with access to toilets is included in this document.
The world has exceeded the AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The AIDS targets of MDG 6—halting and reversing the spread of HIV—have been achieved and exceeded, according to …
The Ministry of Health is pleased to publish this year’s Annual Health Bulletin (AHB) 2015; the 28th edition in its series. The AHB presents status of health of Bhutan 2014, progress of Millennium Development Goals, the fact sheets of cause-specific morbidity, facility-based cases and case-loads, health service coverage, health risk …
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the centrepiece of a new global agreement on what society seeks to become over the next fifteen years. This agreement envisages a world free from poverty and deprivation, and where the fundamental conditions for human prosperity—healthy ecosystems, a stable climate, and a clean environment—are …
