The important role that private sector investments can play in reaching development targets should not be dismissed.
As I have argued elsewhere, it is quite plausible to reach certain development targets in ways that disregard some people or communities.
It says that addressing the needs and guaranteeing the rights of children in Islamic nations will in large part determine whether the world succeeds in reaching global development targets and building a more peaceful future.
CAIRO, 11 April 2005 – With solid progress for children achieved in the last decade, Arab nations have come a long way in reaching global development targets, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Rima Salah said today in Cairo.
Golden opportunity for Arab nations to boost reform in favour of children CAIRO, 11 April 2005 – With solid progress for children achieved in the last decade, Arab nations have come a long way in reaching global development targets, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Rima Salah said today in Cairo.
Addressing the needs and guaranteeing the rights of the 600 million children in Islamic nations will in large part determine whether the world succeeds in reaching global development targets, such as the United Nations Millennium Development Goalss, and in building a more peaceful future for all.
Before the annual jamboree of speeches coming to the United Nations General Assembly this week, about 140 leaders are expected to sign off on a new agreement recommitting themselves to reaching the original development targets and goals, known collectively as the Millennium Development Goals, by 2015.
In Malaysia, Public Finance for Children is a mechanism for supporting governments in strengthening the link between public investment and reaching the economic and development targets being established in the 11th Malaysian Plan.
In the last realm, states committed to "spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty," and identified development targets to be reached by 2015 including in relation to poverty, hunger, access to water, education, child and maternal mortality, infectious disease and access to medicines [ 17].
The evidence to date led the World Health Organisation (WHO) to conclude that household water treatment (HWT) is the most cost-effective approach to reach the United Nations millennium development target 7c of halving the number of persons with no access to safe water (WHO report 2002).
