The MDG and the

Philippines
What is the MDG?

• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are

eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that
respond to the world's main development
challenges.
• The MDGs are drawn from the actions and
targets contained in the Millennium
Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-
and signed by 147 heads of state and
governments during the UN Millennium
Summit in September 2000.
The MDGs --

 synthesise, in a single package, many of the most important

commitments made separately at the international conferences
and summits of the 1990s;
 recognise explicitly the interdependence between growth,
poverty reduction and sustainable development;
 acknowledge that development rests on the foundations of
democratic governance, the rule of law, respect for human
rights and peace and security;
 are based on time-bound and measurable targets accompanied by
indicators for monitoring progress; and
 bring together, in the eighth Goal, the responsibilities of
developing countries with those of developed countries,
founded on a global partnership endorsed at the International
Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico in
March 2002, and again at the Johannesburg World Summit on
Sustainable Development in August 2002.
How the MDGs Emerged

 In 2001, in response to the world leaders' request, UN Secretary General

presented the Road Map Towards the Implementation of the United
Nations Millennium Declaration, an integrated and comprehensive
overview of the situation, outlining potential strategies for action
designed to meet the goals and commitments of the Millennium
Declaration.
 The road map has been followed up since then with annual reports.
 In 2002, the annual report focused on progress made in the prevention of armed
conflict and the treatment and prevention of diseases, including HIV/AIDS and
Malaria. I
 In 2003, emphasis was placed on strategies for development and strategies for
sustainable development.
 In 2004, it was on bridging the digital divide and curbing transnational crime.
 In 2005, the Secretary-General prepared the first comprehensive five-yearly
report on progress toward achieving the MDGs .The report reviews the
implementation of decisions taken at the international conferences and special
sessions on the least developed countries, progress on HIV/AIDS and financing for
development and sustainable development.
The 8 Millennium Development
Goals
 Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
 Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
 Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower
women
 Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
 Goal 5: Improve maternal health
 Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases
 Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
 Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for
Development
So far…

 Progress towards reaching the goals has been uneven. Some

countries have achieved many of the goals,[ while others are not
on track to realize any. According to the UNDP, though, the goal
of halving global poverty has been achieved in 2012, but other
goals’ achievement have not.
 The major countries that have been achieving their goals include
China (whose poverty population has reduced from 452 million to
278 million) and India due to clear internal and external factors
of population and economic development.
 However, areas needing the most reduction, such as the Sub-
Saharan Africa regions have yet to make any drastic changes in
improving their quality of life. In the same time as China, the
Sub-Saharan Africa reduced their poverty about one percent, and
were at a major risk of not meeting the MDGs by 2015. East Asia
has done better than Sub-Saharan Africa.
 Fundamental issues will determine whether or not the MDGs
are achieved, namely gender, the divide between the
humanitarian and development agendas and economic
growth, according to the Overseas Development Institute.

 To accelerate progress towards the MDGs, the G-8 Finance

Ministers met in London in June 2005 (in preparation for the
G-8 Gleneagles Summit in July) and reached an agreement to
provide enough funds to the World Bank, the IMF, and
the African Development Bank (ADB) to cancel an additional
$40–55 billion debt owed by members of the HIPC. This
would allow impoverished countries to re-channel the
resources saved from the forgiven debt to social programs
for improving health and education and for alleviating
poverty.
Issues

 Although developed countries' aid for the

achievement of the MDGs have been rising over
the recent year, it has shown that more than half
is towards debt relief owed by poor countries.
 As well, remaining aid money goes towards
natural disaster relief and military aid which does
not further the country into development.
 According to the United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (2006), the 50 least
countries only receive about one third of all aid that
flows from developed countries, raising the issue of aid
not moving from rich to poor depending on their
development needs but rather from rich to their
closest allies
 Yet, increasing global uncertainties, such as the economic
crisis and climate change, have led to an opportunity to
rethink the MDG approach to development policy.
According to the 'In Focus' Policy Brief from the Institute
of Development Studies, the ‘After 2015' debate is about
questioning the value of an MDG-type, target-based
approach to international development, about progress so
far on poverty reduction, about looking to an uncertain
future and exploring what kind of system is needed after
the MDG deadline has passed.
 The effects of increasing drug use has been noted by the
International Journal of Drug Policy as a deterrent to the
goal of the MDGs.
Sustainable Development Goals
as Successor
• Based on High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Development Agenda
report on May 2013: an explicit end by 2030 of poverty, hunger, child
marriage, preventable under-5 deaths
• The universal agenda (aka Global Goals) involving 5 key
transformational shifts—
• Leave no one behind—to move “from reducing to ending extreme poverty, in all its
forms;” in particular, to “design goals that focus on reaching excluded groups.”
• Put sustainable development at the core, “to integrate the social, economic, and
environmental dimensions of sustainability.”
• Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth, while moving to sus- tainable
patterns of work and life.
• Buildpeaceandeffective,open,andaccountableinstitutionsforall,which “encourage
the rule of law, property rights, freedom of speech and the media, open political
choice, access to justice, and accountable govern- ment and public institutions.”
• Forge a new global partnership so that each priority should involve gov- ernments
and also others, including people living in poverty, civil society and indigenous and
local communities, multilateral institutions, business, academia, and philanthropy.
The Philippine’s 17 SDGs

• No poverty
• Zero hunger
• Good health and well-being
• Quality education
• Gender equality
• Clean water and sanitation
• Affordable and clean energy
• Decent work and economic growth
• Industry, innovation and infrastructure
• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities
• Responsible consumption and production
• Climate action
• Life below water
• Life on land
• Peace, justice and strong institutions
• Partnership for the Global Goals
Ambisyon 2040