Millennium development goals/ Changyu Jung

Millennium development goals were 8 goals that were set for international development. Many countries and international organizations tried hard to achieve these goals. The eight goals are like these: To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, To achieve universal primary education, To promote gender equality and empower women, To reduce child mortalit, To improve maternal health, To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, To ensure environmental sustainability and To develop a global partnership for development. In some countries the goals were achieved, but in other countries, the goals were not achieved. These goals were criticized for not considering differences between the countries. It was also criticized for failing to include the voices of the countries in the goal-setting process.

What was interesting in this article was that the voices of people living in the developing countries were not involved in the goal setting process. I thought this was the biggest problem in the MDGs. Because people didn’t hear the voices of the countries, MDGs didn’t consider the differences between countries. Each country would have had its own priorities to achieve, and the situation would have been different. It’s too bad these goals didn’t reflect the realities of the countries.

What should we consider when setting goals like these? The differences between countries? The realities of the developing countries?

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