Meeting 2015 deadline: Stakeholders review status of MDGs

The objective of the Task Group is to review progress in respect to MDGs against the set targets for 2013-2015.


Our Correspondent September 13, 2013
The objective of the Task Group is to review progress in respect to MDGs against the set targets for 2013-2015. PHOTO:FILE

ISLAMABAD:


The Task Group for the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) met on Thursday to ascertain how far the country will be able to meet the targets it has set to achieve.


Parliamentarians, representatives of the federal ministries, attached government departments, donors and civil society met at the National Assembly to initiate a consultation process at the federal and provincial level on the status of MDGs 2015 and the post MDGs scenario.

According to statement issued by national assembly secretariat, the objective of the Task Group is to review progress in respect to MDGs against the set targets for 2013-2015.

In the year 2000 at least 189 countries pledged to free people from extreme poverty and multiple depreciations.

The pledge resulted into MDGs 2015 Declaration including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and women empowerment, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development.

MNA Marriyum Aurangzeb gave detailed presentation on the back ground of MDGs, status of Pakistan on each goal. She also highlighted that Pakistan will miss majority of the MDGs if “business as usual” continues until the deadline of 2015.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13th, 2013.

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