The Millennium Development Goals
Adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in New York during September 2000, eight specific Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed upon, designed as key targets for the developing world, to be met by 2015 aiming to combat extreme poverty across the world. The declaration was adopted by 189 nations and signed by 147 heads of [...]
Objectives and Challenges
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in New York during September 2000 have changed the whole concept of global development. Promising to: “free all men, women, and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.” they have been accepted as a framework for measuring development progress. Outlining clear [...]
Logistics Complicate Food Aid
The logistics of transporting aid across Africa has proved to be a major issue and very costly to move goods. The continent has only a few broken-down railways. It has nothing resembling a transcontinental motorway. A study by America’s trade department found that it cost more to ship a ton of wheat from Mombasa in [...]
Development-Governance: NEPAD, UNDP sign MoU on cooperation, development, governance
The 11th October saw the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between The New Partnership for Africa’s Developemnt (NEPAD), and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Africa Bureau. It was agreed that both parties would focus on Development Policy and Strategy, Governance, Capacity Development, South-South Cooperation and Aid Effectiveness, Knowledge Management, Environment and Climate Change, [...]
Need for the Private Sector in South Sudan
During a recent workshop on development, Ms. Majok (Undersecretary in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment) outlined the important role to be played by the Private sector in the newly formed nation, adding “The President himself is committed to nurturing the Private Sector; the private sector should now play its role and spur economic [...]
