Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Meaning / Objectives / Challenges
It is in recognition of this importance that the international community and governments all over the world have made commitments for citizens to have access to education. The delivery of education in Nigeria has suffered from years of neglect, compounded by inadequate attention to policy frameworks within the sector.
The implementation of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is affected by corruption, gross inefficiency, wastefulness and duplication of projects in the same areas by the Federal government and donor agencies. This paper therefore examines the challenges facing the realization of MDGs in 2015 and what need to be done in order to achieve the set target for quality education in Nigeria.
The Country Office also provided extensive technical support to the design and implementation of the Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS). The CGS is a project which translates Nigeria’s debt relief gains into advancing the implementation of MDGs in Nigeria. The project which initially covered about 100 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 2009 has been scaled up to 398 out of the 776 LGAs in the country.
The deployment of the MDG Acceleration Framework (MAF) action plan to fast-track the attainment of off-track MDGs is another critical area where UNDP is playing a lead role. In this regard, UNDP in close collaboration with other UN agencies and DFID has successfully guided OSSAP-MDG in producing the MDG Acceleration Framework (MAF) country action plan for Goal
The link between debt-relief-induced resource availability for the improvement of economic and social infrastructure such as access to health, education and water on one hand and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 on the other is a natural one.
The MDGs are:
- To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
- To achieve universal primary education.
- To promote gender equality and empower women.
- To reduce child mortality.
- To improve maternal health.
- To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other infectious diseases.
- To ensure environmental sustainability; and.
- To develop a global partnership for development.
- To reduce by half the number of people living in absolute poverty, by 2015;.
- To ensure access to primary education for all children, by 2015.
- To promote gender equality and empower women.
- To reduce by two thirds the number of children that die before their fifth birthday, by 2015;.
- To reduce by three quarters the number of women that die in childbirth, by 2015;.
- To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
- To reverse environmental degradation by ensuring countries originate and implement 'green strategies' by 2015.
- To develop a global partnership for development.
A shared commitment towards more aid effectiveness and to keeping the Millennium Development Goals on the global agenda, is the driving force behind Alliance2015
Specific Objectives of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Develop and implement joint projects and programmes, including larger-scale programmes that are beyond the capacity of any one partner;
- Coordinate and cooperate on emergency response operations;.
- Share best practice in programming and develop higher standards;.
- Implement joint advocacy campaigns;.
- Initiate joint investment in areas such as technology and new administrative/financial systems;
- Share assets, resources and personnel;.
- Avoid duplication and ensure optimum use of resources by working in the most flexible and practical manner possible.
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