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We Have Improved Nutrition Education in the Philippines

zach — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:18:15 +0000

The Philippines, together with the National Nutrition Council and the MDG Fund, has launched a program to improve breastfeeding and nutrition of children under two years. Improved nutrition education has been one of the key factors to prevent 12,000 deaths a year worldwide. Programs like this are needed to combat 13 million children who die each year from causes related to malnutrition.

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You Are Also Responsible for the Largest Vaccination Campaign in History

zach — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:03:59 +0000

The Bangladesh government, with international assistance, has carried out the largest vaccination campaign against measles in the world which immunized 33.5 million children between 9 and 10 years in only 20 days. Thanks to such initiatives, we have saved more than 4 million lives in the last 20 years.

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Bangladesh prepares to conduct the world’s largest-ever measles immunization campaign

Measles and polio immunization campaign targets 20 million children in Bangladesh

Thousands of Women Have Been Vaccinated Against Tetanus – Neo-Natal is Also up to You

zach — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:17:35 +0000

Cameroon, with support from UNICEF and the international community, has launched a vaccination campaign for women between 15 and 49 years, in 102 districts of the country. By this measure, in 2009 there were no deaths neo natal tetanus. But even today, in the world, 500,000 women die from complications during pregnancy. If all we get involved, we can reduce maternal mortality.

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Side Event on Multi-level Partnerships in MDGs Acceleration – Nigeria

zach — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:47:51 +0000

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On September 27th the UN Millennium Campaign, with the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will be co-hosting a side event entitled: “Multi-Level Partnerships in MDGs Acceleration: Experiences from the Implementation of Nigeria’s MDGs Conditional Grants Scheme at Sub National Level”

Objectives of this side event include presenting to an international audience Nigeria’s MDGs Conditional Grants Scheme, the benefits of utilizing the framework of the MDGs Conditional Grants Scheme to accelerate the attainment of the MDGs and to increase awareness of Nigeria’s investments and policy attention on the MDGs.

For a copy of this side event’s concept note please click here.

Audio Gallery of MDG Success Stories From UNMC Spanish Campaign

zach — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:17:25 +0000

The UN Millennium Campaign teams up with RNE – the Spanish National Radio Station- to talk the progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Listen to the following five broadcasts aired at the leading radio morning show “En días como hoy” and learn more about the significant changes we have achieved in the fight against poverty up until now.

06/18/2012 MDG 4: In the last 20 years, we have managed to reduce by 4.4 million the number of children under the age of five that die in a year. Amalia Navarro Head of the UN Millennium Campaign in Spain introduces this series of reports on MDG success stories. UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Guido Cornale, talks on the progress made on the reduction of child mortality and the challenges ahead.

Radio Broadcast 1 (SP)

06/19/2012 MDG 6: In the last decade, we have reduced new malaria infections by 20%. Quique Bassat Malaria Expert from the Barcelona Center for International Health Research and Pedro Alonso Director of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health talk on measures taken to prevent infection and the future malaria vaccine.

Radio Broadcast 2 (SP)

06/20/2012 MDG 7: We have already met the target of providing access to safe drinking water. Today 2 billion people more have today access to water. Josefina Maestu, Director of the UN Water Office in Spain, talks about this great achievement. Maria Fare, Program Coordinator of the MDG Achievement Fund, talks about a project in the Philippines to empower local communities to develop, operate and manage water supply utilities.

Radio Broadcast 3 (SP)

06/21/2012 MDG 2: Progress made on access to primary education: 39 million children have now access to school. Interview with Stefano Pettinato, UNDP MDG Policy Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean, and stories form Fernando Trinidad coordinator for bilingual education in Mexico DF and Wini Farao, advocate for schooling for girls in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ghana and Zambia.

Radio Broadcast 4 (SP)

06/22/2012 MDG 8: The current situation of Official Development Aid and the progress made on access to new technologies in developing countries. How access to IT is this contributing to the achievement of the MDGs and general economic growth. Charles Abugre Akelyira, Deputy Director of the UN Millennium Campaign Africa, explains the HUDUMA, an innovative platform that uses mobile and web technology to improve service delivery in Kenya.

Radio Broadcast 5 (SP)

The Post-2015 Virtual Web Platform Has Been Launched

zach — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:30:04 +0000

The United Nations Millennium Campaign, along with partners from other UN agencies as well as Civil Society has been helping to coordinate the production and creation of www.worldwewant2015.org. This web platform creates a space for citizens to add their voice and opinion to the post-2015 agenda.

In 2000, world leaders promised to halve extreme poverty by 2015 with a global plan called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Thanks to millions of people taking action and a massive global effort, we have already made real progress. The number of people living in poverty has fallen to less than half of its 1990 level. Over two billion people gained access to better drinking water. The share of slum dwellers living in cities fell, improving the lives of at least 100 million people!

Yet, 1.4 billion people still live in extreme poverty. Every 4 seconds a child dies from preventable causes and over 900 million, particularly women and young people, suffer from chronic hunger. Meanwhile our population is set to rise to 9.5 billion by 2050 and the food system is at breaking point.

Climate change threatens to destroy the lives of millions more and undo all the progress we have made so far. Inequality is growing everywhere and human rights are being undermined in the worlds most fragile and conflict affected countries while the world economy continues to falter.

Despite all of this, for the first time in history we do have the resources to end poverty and grow our world sustainably. It will take the work of all of us to make this happen and we must make our Governments listen and take action on the things that matter most to people everywhere!

The World We Want will gather the priorities of people from every corner of the world and help build a collective vision that will be used directly by the United Nations and World Leaders to plan a new development agenda launching in 2015, one that is based on the aspirations of all citizens!

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MDGs: United Struggle Towards National Realisation

zach — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:09:22 +0000

Nigeria, 19 Jan 2012 – As the 2015 deadline year for realisation of the eight global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) draws nearer, the House of Representatives Committee on the MDGs, the United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) and the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) organised a two-day retreat recently in Abuja for members of the House Committee. The main objective of the House of Representatives Committee on MDGs retreat in Abuja was to expose members to the principles and national frameworks on the MDGs as well as the mandate of the Committee in their achievement. The retreat was formally declared open by the Chair of the Committee, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, and had goodwill message from the United Nations System.

There were three technical sessions: Understanding the MDGs, the MDGs and Macroeconomic Issues, and Parliaments and the MDGs. There were presentations on institutional and policy frameworks from the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs and the roles of the Parliaments in advancing the MDGs by the UN Millennium Campaign.

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Original Source: This Day Live.

Success Stories From Asia and the Pacific

zach — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:28:29 +0000

With 5 years remaining until 2015, we are at the critical junction for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Marking the 10th anniversary of the Millennium Declaration, heads of states will once again gather at the High Level Plenary Meeting on the MDGs to be held in New York in September 2010, to review the progress so far and develop a concrete plan of action for the next five years. Urgently needed now is that we take stock of our achievements as well as challenges in the past so that the lessons learned will lead to accelerated progress towards achievement of the MDGs.

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