ISSN 2077-5091 Scaling up what works I. Major achievements Annual report 2010 www.mdgcentre.org 1 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed out of the eight chapters of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000. The eight goals and 21 targets are Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day. Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Achieve universal primary education Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Promote gender equality and empower women Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015. Reduce child mortality Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate. Improve maternal health Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio. Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases Have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it. Have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. Ensure environmental sustainability Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources. Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers. Develop a global partnership for development Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non- discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction— nationally and internationally. Address the special needs of the least developed countries. This includes tariff—and quota—free access for their exports; enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction. Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordableessential drugs in developing countries. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications. Annual report 2010 www.mdgcentre.org Contents Introduction: Enhancing achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for the continent ...............................................................................................................................3 I. Major achievements ......................................................................................................................5 Sauri: Five years on, scaling up of practical successes within the first Millennium Village is in full swing ..................................................................................................................................5 Gender: Empowering girls with education to change lives in rural Kenya and Ethiopia .....................8 Life in the villages What do a camel, a tree and a blackboard make? Dertu’s mobile school! ...................................................................................................................11 Health: Searching for sustainable delivery systems for quality healthcare..................................................12 Life in the villages New healthcare systems turning unattainable luxury into basic service ...............................................................................................................14 Life in the villages Healthcare boosted by special training in Ruhiira .......................................................15 Nutrition and food security: How is food security improving nutrition? ......................................................16 Life in the villages Growing trees and gardens for life in Uganda ...............................................................18 Parliamentary outreach: Taking grassroots solutions to the national agenda ..........................................19 Life in the villages Fifteen years after the genocide—reconciliation through development in Mayange ..........................................................................................................21 Renewable energy: Millennium Village based biomass, solar and biogas solutions ............................23 Life in the villages Koraro homes get a facelift for better hygiene and environmental quality ...................................................................................................................25 II. Major strategies .......................................................................................................................... 26 Scaling up .............................................................................................................................................................................................26 Business development .................................................................................................................................................................28 Environmental strategy ...............................................................................................................................................................29 Key study ..............................................................................................................................................................................................31 III. Partnerships and agreements................................................................................................. 33 IV. 2010 milestones ........................................................................................................................ 35 Press coverage ................................................................................................................................ 36 2 Introduction I. Major achievements Enhancing achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for the continent The historic September 2000 world summit passed a far-reaching resolution to reduce extreme poverty by half, setting out a series of time-bound targets with a deadline of 2015. These are known as the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. The eight MDGs address extreme poverty in its many dimensions—income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and exclusion—while promoting gender equality, education and environmental sustainability. They also include basic human rights, the rights of each person on the planet to food, health, education, shelter and security. These are global targets that are being translated into local action. Amid concerns that most of Africa had gone off track with respect to achieving the MDGs, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, and the UN Millennium Project (UNMP) established the MDG Technical Support Centre in Nairobi in July 2004. Renamed The MDG Centre in 2006, initial efforts focused on policy support at national levels within the pilot countries of the UNMP—Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal and Ghana. Following the successful completion of the UNMP in late 2006, The Centre broadened its scope of work to include advisory services and support to the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and to scale up MDG-related interventions to district and national levels in East and Southern Africa. Currently The Centre is operating in eight countries in these regions—Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Madagascar. The unique characteristics of The MDG Centre stem from its access to and partnership with both public and private sectors including: • World-class scientists and research institutions with state-of-the-art knowledge and expertise in the fight against hunger and extreme poverty • Global policy leaders through the United Nations and through regional entities • National policy leaders as a result of hands-on effort through the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and related initiatives • Global, regional and national business leaders with the expertise and resources to complement public investment and support sustainable economic transformation in Africa, and • Over 500,000 people living in rural Africa, enabling The Centre to learn, document and share actual experiences in fighting hunger and extreme poverty Through these partnerships, The MDG Centre is uniquely positioned to go beyond the rhetoric of development, bringing about real change supported by evidence and based on experience. This is possible only because we operate simultane- ously at multiple levels and scales: global, regional, national, and local. This important characteristic of The Centre is deploying a multisectoral approach, creating synergies and extending benefits that result from investing simultaneously