The strategy emphasizes a need to promote the health of communities particularly women and children within the general context of responding to the implementation of MDGs 4 and 5, and the overall developmental goals of Ghana.
In the implementation of MDGs, across these different areas, such targeting has often led to efforts being placed on improving the welfare of those most easily reached, otherwise referred to as 'cherry-picking' (5).
While I was working with a French Parliamentary committee evaluating France's contribution to the implementation of health MDGs, I discovered that the men in our Foreign Ministry Administration knew little about health and, worse, showed little interest.
"That is one of the reasons why we have been stressing the achievement and implementation of the MDGs [millennium development goals] and the governments making sure that the deals they are making for the exploitation of mineral resources, and the benefits that accrue from that, affects the population.
In this context, public health is the driving force for the implementation of certain MDGs.
UNICEF Mali engages in partnerships that provide a clearly defined added value to our shared goal of achievement of the MDGs through the implementation of the Millennium Declaration, the the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF's strategic priorities and work plans.
In 2002, Governments at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg formulated a Plan of Implementation reaffirming their commitment to the Rio principles and the full implementation of Agenda 21 and committed themselves to achieving the MDGs.
This project investigates the impact of MDGs on policy, and if MDGs have shifted policy priorities of national governments, bilateral donors, multilateral agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
These goals were established to complete the unfinished business of MDGs and include new challenges.
This historical account illustrates how the convergence of local and global factors and agents has enabled the implementation of in-country efforts to support EIHSP related to health MDGs.
UNICEF Functional Areas Social and Economic Policy Will work with governments and other partners in the design and implementation of social and economic policies to accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and child rights.
