WK 4.1 Millennium Development Goals - Hanane Ben Abdeslam

According to the reading, are Development Goals “International goals focuses on development issues”. The millennium Development Goals (MDGs) had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, for the year 2015. The Development Goals give an overview of what kind of issues many countries and people have. The eight international development goals were succeeded in 2016, by cooperating together with 191 United Nations member states, and 22 international organizations. Each goal had specific targets and dates for achieving those targets.  Moreover, 

What I find interesting is that I never knew about these eight goals. I know now that they’ve committed to 8 -life-changing goals, outlined by the UN in 2015, including extreme poverty, giving people better healthcare, and achieving equality for women. I think we all see now a huge positive difference between now and back then. Besides accomplishing the goals, the entire MDG process has been accused of lacking legitimacy as a result of failure to include, often, the voices of the very participants that the MDGs seek to assist. Furthermore, achieving the MDGs does not depend on economic growth alone. For you to understand more about what I meant, I will give an example of what happened in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh it has shown that is possible to reduce child mortality with only modest growth with inexpensive yet effective interventions, such as measles immunization. However, the government still expenditure in many countries is not enough to meet the agreed spending targets. And that’s how this goal was seen as a failure due to lack of economics values. 

The United Nations have made a statement, which louds “Nearly all the countries in the world have promised to improve the planet and the lives of its citizens by 2030.” Do you think that they will achieve this?

Hanane Ben Abdeslam

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