Senegalese Entertainer Baba Maal promoting MDG Goals 4 and 5 at an event organized by the UN Country Office to support the MDG Campaign. The event was jointly organized with the National Civil Society Consortium.(CONGAD)
Senegal launches Parliamentary MDG Committee to monitor MDG Performance. This was a join event by the UN Millennium Campaign and the UN Country Team, lead by the RC.
DAKAR (AlertNet) – African solutions to African problems is the mantra of governments across this continent. But what about the goodwill ambassadors that fly around speaking about the issues that touch Africa most deeply, should they be African too?
Just days before an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between Cameroon and Senegal in Dakar, the United Nations named Senegal’s captain, Mamadou Niang, a champion of the U.N.
As cities around the world struggle to meet the basic needs of their booming populations, many are falling behind when it comes to water, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement marking World Day for Water.
“Urbanization brings opportunities for more efficient water management and improved access to drinking water and sanitation,” Ban said. “At the same time, problems are often magnified in cities,” he added.
The ‘AIDS and MDGs’ approach
“Over the past three decades, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has reminded us of the fundamental linkages between health and development more broadly.
Wednesday, 8 March, marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. It is a time to not only celebrate the role of the women worldwide, but it is also an opportunity to remind the world of the struggles that women have faced over the years in the fight for equal rights, dignity and respect.
Over the years, the United Nations has paid particular attention to women’s issues, particularly to women’s empowerment as a tool for global development.
Ten years after their establishment, the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals are set to gain a new local and tangible edge with the launch of an online citizen tracking program in Kenya that went live Feb. 10.
With less than five years to the 2015 deadline set to achieve the Millennium Develpoment Goals, progress on the Goals has been uneven. We have seen great strides made in some areas, while in others, there is still much work to be done.
The High Level Plenary Meeting of the United Nations on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG Summit) concluded with the adoption of an Outcome Document representing a global action plan to achieve the eight anti‐poverty goals by their 2015 target. Announcement of major new commitments and initiatives to accelerate MDG progress were made in support of the global action plan by Governments, international organizations and partners as well as by business representatives.
The deadline for the highly scrutinized 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is just four years away. Ten years since the UN’s adoption of the goals and twenty years since the recording of most baseline data, we ask: how well is each country progressing towards these highly ambitious targets? Despite an extraordinary public campaign to mobilize support for the MDGs, there has been surprisingly little effort to track, record, and disseminate information regarding progress toward the goals at the country level.
