United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The 2015 is also the year in which the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are on track to conclude their course, replaced by a new agenda post-2015, now being negotiated.
Millennium Development Goals are eight ambitious goals that all 193 UN member states have pledged to achieve by the year 2015. The eight goals range eradicating hunger and poverty, access to education and health, to sustainable development and democratic. Two, in particular, are aimed at improving the status of women worldwide.
In 1990, their realization seemed impossible, but now? The financial statements record successes and failures, a panorama of lights and shadows, some surprising wins and still a long way to go.
The World Food Programme (WFP) supports several programs specifically targeted to the objectives covered: the first 1,000 days of life, the maternal and child nutrition, school feeding and initiatives dedicated to women. Proper nutrition from the nutritional point of view in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life is crucial for proper development and to avoid consequences on his physical abilities, immune and mental. As well as school meals which are often the only regular meal and nutrient consumed by a child. In their absence, hunger and nutritional deficiencies are likely to produce irreversible damage to its development. This is why WFP is committed to the establishment of such programs in developing countries.
The world is now looking agenda post-2015, or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which will replace the UN Goals MDGs. In shaping their content, we must reflect on how the efforts made on behalf of the Millennium Development Goals have had an impact on the living conditions of women and other age at risk. Namely, who in the world does not have adequate access to education, nutrition, health and work. The world has the tools and knowledge to end hunger and WFP urges the global community because they continue to work for a world in “Zero Hunger”.
Research material:
http://it.wfp.org/storie/gli-obiettivi-di-sviluppo-del-millennio-2015
