kenya s progress towards achieving the millennium development goals

... between sectors While the main entry point will be through the strengthening of existing structures and services, the strategy also explores new avenues for the provision of services, for example, the ... 2005 settlement survey are used as the standard reference for Somalia Preliminary results of the meta-analysis also highlight how the situation has been consistently worse in South Central Somalia ... regular basis not least because the security and access situations can change substantially in Somalia thereby affecting feasibility of implementation The inter-agency review process of progress on...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... policies, as well as institutions and health systems, are weak The paper concludes with guiding lessons from some of the countries that have successfully improved maternal health and with a discussion ... complications Access to these and other primary services was free During the 195 0s, Sri Lanka increased investments in midwife training and expansion of PHM positions, increased the number of hospitals ... skilled attendants is essential Skilled attendance refers to the process wherein the attendant with the necessary skills is supported by an enabling environment that ensures adequate supplies,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... various types of learning assessment Recent years have seen an increase in the number of national assessments Most of these, carried out either by the Ministry of Education or by research institutions, ... standardized tests to a number of countries across a limited range of subjects.43 What these assessments show? The most important conclusion is that the children who perform best usually have better ... experiences that assail their senses This is a critical development period, as the child picks up skills in language and learns to think critically Such is the pace of change that over the first three...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... improvements in some areas of SRH – witness the declines in fertility levels over the past few decades But there have also been serious setbacks, most notably the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa This ... Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set priorities closely related to these objectives Progress towards the MDGs depends on attaining the ICPD reproductive health goals The leaders of the world ... program development An example of the difficulties in addressing SRH concerns comes from the response to HIV/AIDS Despite the dominant role of sexual transmission in its spread, it is classified...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... fertility is highest in the poorest countries as well as among the poorest people in these and middle income societies It is clearly then no surprise that these same places have the highest levels of ... services Overview in section “Health systems: ensuring universal access to essential services”; Chapter in introductory section; Chapter in section “Health systems: ensuring universal access to essential ... highlights the key reasons why ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health information and services is necessary for achieving the MDGs The current situation shows how devastating the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... infectious diseases, there are specific interventions, such as insecticide-treated bednets for malaria, and the DOTS strategy for tuberculosis, for which unit cost estimates exist Applying these unit ... this cost by the number of primary school-age children not in school Since this unit cost varies substantially across regions (and across countries within regions), the resulting global estimate ... is necessary to reach the complete set of goals Nevertheless, taking into account that we have to deal with broad ranges for the estimates, the fact that the two estimates are similar gives some...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... Nations Secretariat, in response to the wishes of the General Assembly for periodic assessment of progress towards the MDGs The Group comprises representatives of the international organizations ... rapid progress in many of these countries 44 34 24 20 4 3 1999 Sub-Saharan Africa Southern Asia Eastern Asia South-Eastern Asia Latin America & the Caribbean Western Asia Northern Africa Rest of the ... at a distinct disadvantage in Oceania, Southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Western Asia In contrast, girls have surpassed boys in Eastern Asia and in Wide gaps remain in women s access to paid...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... of these limitations, some critics of the current aid system suggest that the ‘Big Push’ approach will not solve the problems the MDGs seek to eliminate; dispirited by current obstacles, they ... targets, progress towards the targets for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria has so far been more promising [1,2] This suggests that, to create a more effective health aid system, a continuing redistribution ... protection fund, as disagreement on its features would stand in the way of broad discussion of its underlying vision In brief, the proposal is that “some of the allocation mechanisms used by the Global...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... progress made and challenges towards achieving MDGs and 5, and exploring avenues for accelerating progress in the South-East Asia Region High-Level consultation to accelerate progress towards ... complications during delivery, it is a sign that necessary physical and human resources are in place The experience of Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand has shown that progress is possible These nations ... factors — Diversities These involve intersectoral linkages that comprise social sector actions and health development Two scenarios are possible — one is distribution-based and the other growthbased...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... to the PMTCT-related goals of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) and to strengthen support for PMTCT within the context of the Millennium Development Goals PMTCT Strategic ... low-resource settings In the context of the 2010 UNGASS HIV/AIDS goals and 2015 Millennium Development Goals, this is a critical time for the global public health community to assess current progress ... detailed reports will be produced, which assess progress in scaling up HIV interventions towards achieving MDGs 4, and 6, with an emphasis on the health sector These reports will be published in 2010,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... and security services in poor communities, sometimes with the assistance of contracted NGOs ESSJ, 2008 29 Research has assessed injuries caused by violence to have consumed about 12% of the country s ... exporting sub-soil assets and basic agricultural commodities These ‘basic factors’ cannot create the levels of prosperity required for sustained economic and social development The new route is the development ... staff shortages, as well as by lack of equipment in some health THE HEALTH TEAM centres The system is severely short of public The primary health system recognizes the health team as health nurses...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... of bias in the databases; whilst our sampling of ‘species’ space remains so sparse, calculations on the numbers of folds in all of nature seem rather esoteric A few large protein families dominate ... architectures possess functional sites (for example the base of the ␤ barrel in the TIMs or the exposed ␤-sheet surface in the ␣␤-plaits) that can easily be re-engineered to bring diverse combinations ... structures disagree in their assignments 20-40% of the time [61] The problem is compounded by discontinuities in some domain sequences, whereby the insertion of a second domain disrupts an existing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... is the second in a series of annual reports assessing progress on the policy agenda for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and related outcomes It is prepared jointly by the staff ... donors This progress is largely due to the developments cited above with respect to the replenishments of the banks’ concessional windows and their greater reliance on country systems to process their ... on these dimensions Countries should use the improved diagnostics and metrics of the private business environment now available—such as the World Bank s Doing Business Indicators and Investment...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... views and preferences towards these issues The increase in awareness and measures taken on ESG issues is manifested in the significant growth in global sustainable investments during recent times ... (Vogel, Hayes 1998) Associating profit and return with risks arising in business ventures or possession of assets changes the nature of the risks in Shari’ah-compliant financial transactions Voluntary ... Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally The Sustainable Development Goals bring forward the unfinished business of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2016, 13:20

... in savings Illness can lead to a spiralling downwards of incomes and assets, as households increasing sell assets and get into indebtedness Illness is often the main reason why poor households ... inclusiveness of the financial sector is associated with improvements in the indicator and progress towards the MDG in question The most striking relationship is between inclusive financial development ... sophisticated financial savings instruments that allow them to minimise the riskiness of their savings and allow them to combine their savings with other products and services such as life insurance However,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... across the BBTB Therefore, in the physiologic state in vivo, the presence of the glycocalyx would render the underlying endothelial cells of the BBTB inaccessible to the transvascular passage ... approach to this strategy has been the use of continuous chemotherapy dosing schemes[61,62] The potential effectiveness of this approach, however, has been limited by the systemic toxicity associated ... which is due to the non-specific accumulation of small molecule drugs within normal tissues, as these drugs are small enough to permeate across endothelial barriers of normal tissue microvasculature...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... across countries The 2012 edition of the Child Development Index tells a story of success This edition of the Index shows that, since the mid-199 0s, substantial progress has been made in addressing ... countries accelerate progress Perhaps one of the greatest successes is that – since the 200 0s – developing countries experienced faster than average rates of progress, increasing the chances of ... around these vital issues This report has also highlighted the weaknesses in basic child well-being data; the same data is, of course, crucial to effective policy responses v Box: measuring children’s...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... there was a reduction of 92 per cent in measles deaths during this period Despite this progress, a resurgence of the disease is possible, and the challenge remains to sustain two-dose measles ... Achieving the MDGs with Equity’ is the focus of this ninth edition of Progress for Children, UNICEF s report card series that monitors progress towards the MDGs This data compendium presents ... items such as basic foodstuffs and lacking access to social safety nets or adequate savings to lessen economic shocks – these trends have the potential to further deepen deprivation and hardship...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:22

... communities they study.4 For me, responsible anthropology has come to mean using the resources at my disposal to assist my informants, friends, and their organizations in the ways they ask me to (if they ... themselves as persons The reassessment of self-worth and personal purpose experienced by social activists is one of the less recognized aspects of NGO work (Edwards and Sen 2003), but it is arguably ... to value their work—neither the state nor international foundations nor local business sponsors These entities dismissed their claims that large families, as a category of citizens hit especially...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 17:40

... standards other than those issued by FASAB Closed 50 07-4 The Secretary of the Treasury Treasury s checklist was revised in fiscal year 2008 to address should direct the Fiscal these concerns Assistant ... was disclosed in Note 2, Cash and Other Monetary Assets, in the fiscal year 2008 CFS Closed 36 04-20 The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Fiscal Assistant Secretary to ensure that the ... Treasury and OMB Per GAO 34 04-6 The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Fiscal Assistant Secretary to assess the infrastructure associated with the compilation process and modify it as...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20