The AFRICA TRADE CENTRE AND THE FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA proudly presents you with the following information that may add value to Africa's development. Please direct any correspondence to: info@isupportafrica.com
UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
In September 2000 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution referred to as RESOLUTION 55/2 - UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DECLARATION.
The essence of this resolution is to achieve a number of development goals by 2015 - these goals are 'significantly' numbered and include the following:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
* Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
* Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
2. Achieve Universal primary education
* Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
* Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
4. Reduce child mortality
* Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
5. Improve maternal health
* Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
6. Combat HIV; AIDS; malaria and other diseases
* Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
* Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
* Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
* Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
* Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
8. Develop a global partnership for development
*Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory, includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction- nationally and internationally
*Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
*Address the special needs of landlocked and small-island developing States
*Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
*In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
*In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
*In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies- especially information and communications technologies
For a more detailed wording of the declaration please see:
http://www.foundation-development-africa.org/africa_millennium_development_goals/index.htm
From a time perspective we are almost halfway to the 2015 deadline - however:
* How many of us really know and understand these 8 goals?
* How many of us are considering these 8 goals when structuring or planning our Corporate Social Investment/Responsibility strategy?
* How many of us are implementing initiatives that will contribute towards achieving these goals?
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA, supported by the AFRICA TRADE CENTRE, is now pleading with our people throughout Africa to familiarize ourselves with this initiative and to participate in any way possible!
Every contribution towards achieving these goals will make a difference!
"NONE OF US ... IS AS GOOD ... AS ALL OF US"
Please do not forget to add your product and/or service to the AFRICA TRADE CENTRE's most comprehensive database of PRODUCTS AND SERVICES SERVING AFRICA - you will be pleasantly surprised at the rate this database is growing:
SEE:
http://www.fdapartners.net/products_services/index.htm
How can you participate?
All you have to do is complete this form and select an option:
http://www.fdapartners.net/com/fda_participation_form.htm
Take care
Peter
