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MDGs

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 192 United Nations member states (and several international organizations) agreed to achieve by the year 2015.

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 diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development 
  • Governance and Lies

    15 Oct 2010By Thembinkosi Dlamini The events of the recent past show that things in Swaziland have reached their logical conclusion – countries pay a price for survive lying to their citizens, ...

  • Podcast from AIDS 2010 in Vienna

    28 Jul 2010The AIDS 2010 conference took place in Vienna. Idasa was in Vienna to discuss the state of leadership, government budgets and the challenges people living with AIDS face when they ...

  • Idasa’s diary from Vienna

    22 Jul 2010This is a compilation of Idasa's staff news diaries while at the conference are Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) director Kondwani Chirambo, manager Marietjie Oelofsen, unit heads Phoebe Machere, Vailet ...

  • Youth Zones Launch

    02 Oct 2009Please see below press statement released by African democracy institute Idasa, the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Local Organising Committee, Foundation for a Safe South Africa and the Embassy of ...

  • Idasa's HIV/AIDS Programme Contributes to MDGs

    02 Feb 2009The Governance and AIDS programme (GAP), with support from SIDA and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) launched a five year programme in September 2008, as part of Idasa’s contribution to ...

  • Development Aid and the War on Poverty

    17 Sep 2008By: Michele Ruiters Institute for Global Dialogue Issue 81 / September 2008 This policy brief focuses on two multilateral initiatives scheduled for review in late 2008, the Monterrey Consensus for ...

  • Improving Development Aid to Achieve MDGs

    01 Sep 2008Important gaps remain in delivering on the global commitments in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, and access to new technologies and to affordable essential medicines. In the countdown ...

  • How far to total eradication of the bucket system

    30 Nov 2007In February 2005, there were 252 254 buckets in use in the country. The national government then committed itself to eradication of the bucket sanitation system by December 2007. With ...

  • Funding in Health, Education and Social Development Sectors

    06 Aug 2001Researchers: Jolene Adams, Judith Streak, Marritt Claassens, Paul Whelan, Lulama Dikweni, Russell Wildeman, Alison Hickey Editor: Alison Hickey "Experience since 1994 shows that the inability to target spending is one ...

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  • Idasa responds to Land Bank announcement

    19 Aug 2011The Public Expenditure and Smallholder Agriculture Project in African democracy institute, Idasa, has welcomed the Land Bank’s commitment to spend 1 billion rands on emerging farmers in the next two years as a move to unlock the long-term potential growth of agriculture as one of the pillars of South Africa’s economic development. Please read attached [...]

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