CONCEPT[1]
HIV MDG Progress[2]
INTRODUCTION:
Countries
agreed to achieve 8 bench-marks by the year 2015. These were the MDGs developed
out of the eight chapters of the Millennium
Declaration, signed in September 2000. There are eight goals with 21
targets and a series of measurable health indicators and economic
indicators for
each target.
This tool will take
one through four steps: Harmonization; Indigenization; Documentation
and;
Empower (HIDE) as you read it and become familiar with the 8 MDG’s. In
essence you are bringing all your knowledge and experience with the MDG’s to
focus and bear on the 8 pillars. You will need to use them to plan or monitor
your activities. This is the whole idea of HIDE.
At all times, we
need to work at linking, integrating all the action and interventions that will
culminate into any of the 8 MDG’s. We must also ask what the Prevailing
policy is. What is the Readiness of the existing
beneficiaries? What is the level of Empowerment
for all beneficiaries, stakeholders and marginalized population groups? What
are the Sustainability plans? What Effort
is there to expand? What Negative forces are there at play? What will break our
Consistence
even when we have pulled out? How is the Environment affected by our
activities? The acronym at this level is: PRESENCE.
There
are two assumptions made: this tool is for those already working with groups,
organized entities or intending to form viable groups; it is for those who are
into progressive social justice that is biased towards eradicating social ills.
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015,
the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day
·
Proportion of population below $1.25 per day (PPP
values)
·
Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of poverty]
·
Share of poorest quintile in national consumption
Target 1B: Achieve Decent Employment for
Women, Men, and Young People
·
GDP Growth per Employed Person
·
Employment Rate
·
Proportion of employed population below $1.25 per
day (PPP values)
·
Proportion of family-based workers in employed
population
Target 1C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015,
the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
·
Prevalence of underweight children under five years
of age
·
Proportion of population below minimum level of
dietary energy consumption
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Target 2A: By 2015, all children can
complete a full course of primary schooling, girls and boys
·
Enrollment in primary education
·
Completion of primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 3A: Eliminate gender disparity in
primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
·
Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and
tertiary education
·
Share of women in wage employment in the
non-agricultural sector
·
Proportion of seats held by women in national
parliament.
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality rates
Target 4A: Reduce by two-thirds, between
1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Target 5A: Reduce by three quarters,
between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
·
Maternal mortality ratio
·
Proportion of births attended by skilled health
personnel
Target 5B:
Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive
health
·
Contraceptive prevalence rate
·
Adolescent birth rate
·
Antenatal care coverage
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria, and other diseases
·
HIV prevalence among population aged 15–24 years
·
Condom use at last high-risk sex
·
Proportion of population aged 15–24 years with
comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS
Target 6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal
access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
·
Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection
with access to antiretroviral drugs
Target 6C: Have halted by 2015 and begun
to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
·
Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
·
Proportion of children under 5 sleeping under
insecticide-treated bed-nets
·
Proportion of children under 5 with fever who are
treated with appropriate anti-malarial drugs
·
Incidence, prevalence and death rates associated
with tuberculosis
·
Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured
under DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course)
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 7A: Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into
country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources
Target 7B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a
significant reduction in the rate of loss
·
Proportion of land area covered by forest
·
Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological
limits
·
Proportion of total water resources used
·
Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected
Target 7C: Halve, by 2015, the
proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water
and basic sanitation (for more information see the entry on water supply)
Target 7D: By 2020, to have achieved a
significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers
Goal 8: Develop a global
partnership for development
Target 8A: Develop further an open,
rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
·
Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction – both nationally and internationally
Target 8B: Address the Special Needs of
the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
·
Includes: tariff and quota free access for LDC
exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of official
bilateral debt; and more generous ODA (Official Development Assistance) for
countries committed to poverty reduction
Target 8C: Address the special needs of
landlocked developing countries and small Island developing States
·
Through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable
Development of Small Island
Developing States and
the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly
Target 8D: Deal comprehensively with the
debt problems of developing countries through national and international
measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
Some of the indicators listed below are monitored separately
for the least developed countries (LDCs), Africa, landlocked developing
countries and small island developing States.
Ø Official
development assistance (ODA):
·
Net ODA, total and to LDCs, as percentage of
OECD/DAC donors’ GNI
·
Proportion of total sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC
donors to basic social services (basic education, primary health care,
nutrition, safe water and sanitation)
·
Proportion of bilateral ODA of OECD/DAC donors that
is untied
·
ODA received in landlocked countries as proportion
of their GNIs
·
ODA received in small island developing States as
proportion of their GNIs
Ø Market access:
·
Proportion of total developed country imports (by
value and excluding arms) from developing countries and from LDCs, admitted
free of duty
·
Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on
agricultural products and textiles and clothing from developing countries
·
Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as
percentage of their GDP
·
Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity
Ø Debt
sustainability:
·
Total number of countries that have reached their
HIPC decision points and number that have reached their HIPC completion points
(cumulative)
·
Debt relief committed under HIPC initiative, US$
·
Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and
services
Target 8E: In co-operation with
pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in
developing countries
·
Proportion of population with access to affordable
essential drugs on a sustainable basis
Target 8F: In co-operation with the
private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially
information and communications
·
Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100
population
·
Personal computers in use per 100 population
·
Internet users per 100 Population
SOURCE: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/.
As part of the
indigenization, Sexual Reproductive, Health Rights issues among LGBTI,
Sex-workers and Drug-users and other marginalized population groups need to be
addressed at country-specific levels. This will help tap into the various
networks developed over time. There is need to continue raising awareness of
the relationships between sexuality, orientation, gender, identity reproductive
health and rights and development. In answer to this there is need to merge
aspirations of frameworks or action plans. In this case ICPD Programme of
Action has supported policy frameworks and programmes that focus on the
reproductive rights and sexual health needs of marginalized population groups
for instance. This does not stop one from recognizing or addressing the whole
spectrum of men, women and young people. Ensure that significant disparities,
inequalities and new emerging challenges are addressed. Therefore, YOUR
ORGANIZATION will seek to generate dialogue and action around: Cultural competency of health workers, social
workers and the legal regime towards issues and needs as alliances are built;
ensure raised issues should inform basis for interventions; training in dignity
affirming skills and perceptiveness for providers; empowering beneficiaries to
form support groups or to form registrable organizations; supporting the
organizations with resources to promote leadership, accountability and
recurrent execution of duty; avail sexual reproductive prevention
prophylactics; documentation and record keeping through a Friendly management information
system (FMIS); provide safe and regular check-ups for STIs; link drug-use,
contamination of blood products and sex-work; provide sexuality and orientation-friendly/affirming
counselling services; improve Maternal and Child health for those in
child-bearing relations; provide family support counselling for those with
child dependants; foster community, religious and parental dialogues on
tolerance for children born with non- heterosexual conforming
gender/identity/sexuality and orientation and; ensure formed organizations are
able to tap into the existing national civil society networks.
OBJECTIVE:
To
make the MDGs understable and a tool for everyone be they at Civil Society,
Parliament, and Ministry of Health and Community levels.
VISION:
To
cascade into the core tasks for the next development framework of MDGs.
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
Lack of support to
organize/self determination focusing on poverty, environment, HIV morbidity,
mortality and hate-related crimes continue to be a health and social challenges.
Unmet need for resources, skills and consistency of promise to eradicate
poverty, promote democratization, access to protective prophylactics, family
planning remain as key challenges.
SOLUTION:
Design
a tool that brings into focus the MDGs through provision of short actionable
statements that point one towards participation as opposed to being a deterrent
or discouragement.
METHODOLOGY:
Short
Term Objective: Come up with two tools: the concept
note and a twitter platform with short MDG-related aspirations not exceeding
100 words. It is hoped the issues below will be addressed:
·
Cultural competency of health workers,
social workers and the legal regime towards MDG requirements.
·
Integrating interventions targeting
marginalized population groups.
·
Training in dignity affirming skills and
perceptiveness for providers.
·
Empowering to form registrable
organizations.
·
Supporting the organizations with
resources to promote leadership, accountability and recurrent execution of
duty.
·
Avail sexual reproductive prevention
prophylactics.
·
Documentation and record keeping through
Friendly management information system (FMIS). This can cascade into: UN,
Global Fund data-base.
·
Provide scheduled safe and regular
check-ups for STIs under trained cultural competent provider.
·
Establish systems that break STI
transmission Linked to drug-use, contamination of blood products and sex-work.
·
Provide Transgender and gender
non-conforming cultural competency trainings for providers, allies and Gay,
Bisexual, Lesbian and Intersex (GBLI) persons.
·
Provide bisexual-friendly/affirming
counselling services to improve Maternal and Child health for those in
child-bearing relations.
·
Provide family support counselling for
those with child dependants.
·
Foster community, religious and parental
dialogues on tolerance for children born with non- heterosexual conforming
gender/identity/sexuality and orientation.
·
Ensure formed organizations are able to
tap into the existing national civil society networks through attending
harmonization and internationally-recognized day activities.
TWITTER
AND BLOG ACTIVITIES 2013-2015:
1.
Formation and establishment
of platforms to twit short MDG-related aspirations.
2.
Increase conscietisation
a) by twitting on MDGs b) by blogging on MDGs
3.
Report-making
4.
Report dissemination;
a) listserve b) public dialogue platform c) social networks d) civil society
meetings
WORK PLAN:
2013- 2015
Objective
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Activity
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Time
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Outcome
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To gain visibility and continued conscietisation around
MDGs
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Concept note development
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By August 2nd2013.
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Make intentions known
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To develop and manage a twitter platform
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By August 6th 2013.
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Twitter Account:
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To develop and manage a blog platform
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By August 6th 2013.
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Blog Account:
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