Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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 Major Diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Africa’s progress on the MDGs is gaining momentum. The continent continues to make steady progress on most of the goals. And even though it is unlikely to achieve all the targets by 2015, the rate of progress on several indicators – including primary school enrolment, gender parity in primary school enrolment, the proportion of seats held by women in national parliament, HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and the share of women in non-agricultural wage employment – is accelerating.
Accelerating progress to achieve the MDGs will require Read More
- Poverty is declining slowly and decent jobs are hard to find
- Food price increases are a barrier to reducing malnutrition
Gender parity and women’s empowerment – a glass half full
Access to contraceptives is reducing maternal deaths
Environmental challenges persist
More children are in primary school, but retaining them requires more effort
Lagging Health Indicators
- Funding cuts threaten progress on the HIV/AIDS front
- Malaria-related deaths are down, but access to effective drugs is limited
Official development assistance is important, but diversifying the assistance portfolio is crucial
With less than three years before the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target date of 2015, development practitioners, including agencies of the United Nations (UN), are already initiating consultations aimed at defining the contours of the post-2015 development agenda. Read More
- 14/03/2013 - African Ministers and Stakeholders Meet in Tunisia to Shape Africa’s Post-MDG Agenda
- 05/03/2013 - Africa-Wide Consultation on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and Review of Africa’s Progress Toward the MDGs
- 11/12/2012 - Common Position on Africa’s Post-2015 Development Agenda Set to Take Shape in Senegal
- 17/10/2012 - AfDB and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
- 04/10/2012 - “Pride of African Lions Steer Post-MDGs Agenda” by AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka
A bientôt la date butoir de 2015