Awortwi: Implementation of the Millennium Develop

Progresses and Challenges in Some African Countries

Nicholas Awortwi, Herman Musahara, Nicholas Awortwi, Herman Musahara

• Publisher: OSSREA
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9789994455829
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9789994455904
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Development Economics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In September 2000, world leaders from 189 countries, including 147 Heads of State, gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to consider the challenges of the new millennium. They adopted the Millennium Declaration, which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization (UN 2000 (A/RES/55/2)). The leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that conditions of extreme poverty are eradicated wherever they existed. To actualise this declaration, the UN established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The goals were broken down into 18 concrete targets and 48 indicators to track progresses in implementation. For the past 14 years thereafter, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been striving to achieve the goals. So far, some have achieved some of the goals, and the results toward the rest of the goals are also by and large positive, though off-target. This book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the MDGs in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases. The book also presents lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acronyms
• About Authors
• Introduction: Tracking Progresses and Challenges in the Implementation of the MDGs in Africa
• 1. Progress and Challenges in Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger and Combating HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases in Lesotho
• 2. Schooling without Learning: Long-Term Implications of Free Primary Education for Income and Welfare Inequalities in Kenya
• 3. Universal Primary Education in Botswana: Implementation, Achievements, and Challenges
• 4. The Challenges of the Implementation of MDGs in a Fragile State: Universal Primary Education and Gender Equality in Madagascar
• 5. Achievements, Experiences and Challenges of Implementing the Millennium Development Goals 3 and 6 in the United Republic of Tanzania
• 6. Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Botswana: Progresses and Challenges
• 7. Scaling up and Sustaining Gender Inclusion through the MDGs in Ghana: MDG-C1
• 8. Improved Maternal Health to Realise Millennium Development Goal 5 in Kenya
• 9. Governance and Management Issues in Rural Safe Water Supply in Uganda: Implications for the Realisation of Millennium Development Goal 7C
• 10. Inroads in Alleviating Slum Conditions across Nigeria
• Conclusion: Successes and Challenges of the Implementation of the MDGs, with Lessons for the Post-2015 Development
• Back cover