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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Abay Poster Exhibition and Hall (Millennium Hall)
Midpoint of the Millennium Development Goals: Evaluating What We Achieved Since the Inception of the Millennium Development Goals
Session Lead: Marco Gomes, Ph.D., Centre for Global Health Policy and Innovation, Policy Advisor, Health and HIV, Chief Advisor, Scientific
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) express the commitment of the International Community to universal development and poverty eradication, captured in the UN Millennium Declaration in September 2000. Their wide coverage includes halving world poverty and hunger by 2015, as well as reaching universal primary education, reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters, and halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water.
Commissioned studies allows us to gather data over a 4 year period covering diverse MDGs indicators that allowed us to analyse how progress is shaping up in regards to the MDGs and if progress will be enough at midpoint of the Millennium Development Goals.
Participants in the session will be able to gain understanding of current progress, weaknesses in the MDGs, resulting in the failure of achieving the MDGs, and examples by: clarifying and strengthening good practices in aid relationships and its inter-linkage to MDGs and thus legitimising.
We envisage that a summary report with policy recommendation will be developed to guide future developments in the challenges identified in MDGs.
The suggested main talks and proposed speakers are as follows:
MDGs: Where are we and where are we failing: Marco Gomes, Ph.D.
Strategies for more effective MDG research that will change the way which field MDG work is conducted: Dr. Sarah Amos, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Overview of key elements from the study and recommendation culminating from the country level studies: Peter Jacobinno, M.P.H.
Learning Objectives: While the MDGs have been criticised, they have mobilised support for development assistance and are backed by many development actors. As the global economy slows, their mobilising power is even more important. Midway between the launch of the MDGs and the agreed deadline, it is time to take stock of MDG achievements to date, and propose new directions, if necessary. This paper will try to have learning objectives which will ask some basic questions: How much has been achieved? What worked, what did not, and why? What should be done to accelerate progress? What could developments actors, academia, civil society and multi/bilateral actors to contribute to the acceleration of the agenda in the MDG leading to the creation on a new MDG agenda? Strategies to accelerate MDG progress require an understanding of recent history, and why particular countries do better or worse. We intend on using a tripod method looking at three dimensions: the global economic context in which developing countries operate; the aid they receive; and their own domestic policies.Creating a learning method which allow participants to get an analytical idea on the little MDG progress can be achieved without the right domestic policies.