Funding Wide Ranging Development Objectives

The theme of A River Runs Through It , a book written by Norman Maclean and a movie directed by Robert Redford is that people want to help those they are close to, but they have to let them live their lives as individuals even though they may be in the wrong. Basically, you have to let people make their own choices in life, and the theme is supposed to give us an overall message of how to live life in this way. Therefore, the traits of pride and acceptance that the lives of Norman, Paul, and the people around them, who are foils, show impact the message of the theme and prove it. Pride is a true element to the story that Paul, Norman, and other characters show to relate to the theme. One example of this is when Paul has gambling debt, and refuses to let Norman help pay it off.

On November 2, 2015, in Chicago, Il, a 9 year old boy named Tyshawn Lee who was said to be a “fun-loving child that enjoyed video games and basketball” (Christina Coleman) was lured into an alley where he was murdered. Tyshawn had been shot multiple times in the upper back and head”. It looked as though it had been just another random spray of bullets, or another missed target, however after some investigation; Authorities released information that the death of Tyshawn Lee was no accident. On the contrary this senseless murder was an act of retaliation of rival gang members. According to police Tyshawn Lee’s father was gang affiliated which consequently lead to the death of the young boy.

According to the Millennium Development Goals Report 2012, “783 million people, or 11 per cent of the global population, remain without access to an improved source of drinking water. Such sources include household connections, public standpipes, boreholes, protected dug wells, protected springs and rainwater collections.” (United Nations, 2012) The United Nations Water Conference in 1977 along with a few other conferences, addressed helping approximately “1.3 billion people in developing countries gain access to safe drinking water.” (United Nations, 2012) While there is progress being made, we see that various regions without clean drinking water. Reports show, “In four of nine developing regions, 90 per cent or more of the population now uses an improved drinking water source. In contrast, coverage remains very low in Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa, neither of which is on track to meet the MDG drinking water target by 2015. Over 40 per cent of all people without improved drinking water live in sub-Saharan Africa.” (United Nations, 2012) It is shown that rural areas still lack drinkable water as opposed to urban areas. Consistent improvement has been made to supply populated areas with a reliable source of drinking water. However, research shows, “Coverage with improved drinking water sources for rural populations is still lagging. In 2010, 96 per cent of the urban population used an

The world faced a stark reality at the turn of the century. Amidst unprecedented new wealth and powerful new technologies, millions were still getting sick and dying from diseases and life expectancies were actually falling. Therefore, in September 2000, 189 country representatives adopted the Millennium Development Goals to focus on time limited commitments to reduce poverty and promote human development in order to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other disease by 2015.(WHO, 2008). The challenge for meeting this deadline of goals was perceived as emergent and had a powerful effect for transforming the long-standing problem of global public health. It was perceived that globalization was putting the social cohesiveness of many countries under stress and that the health systems as key constituents of our contemporary societies were clearly not performing as well as they could and should.

I chose two articles regarding Africa, which relates to MDG 1 eradicate extreme poverty & hunger. The continent of Africa has many countries that are on “The 25 poorest countries in the world” list. We hear about and see commercials regularly on the devastating hunger and poverty situation in Africa.

Oxfam is upgrading public health through safer access to sustainable and sufficient water sanitation and health services by supporting the development of appropriate pro-poor water and sanitation policies. One example of this is that Oxfam is providing clean water and hygiene kits to survivors of the mudslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Oxfam initially plans to help almost 2,000 households that are in concerns over the fact that there is continuous heavy rains, overcrowding and inadequate water and sanitation systems which will leave people extremely vulnerable to outbreaks of cholera and other diseases. Sustainable Development Goal 3 Good Health and Wellbeing: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages aims to promote the

To be more impact full to this project the authority must involve more privet citizen and Privet Company’s to make sure the success of MDG and should not just leave it to the government only.

There are signs of change in the rich world’s attitude. Some donors, notably the United Kingdom and the United States, the latter with its Millennium Challenge Account, are moving away from attaching explicit, heavy conditions to their grants and loans and are instead screening applicants early to ensure that assistance will be reasonably well spent. The World Bank and other organizations are designing programs with countries in which resources are disbursed not in exchange for policy reform but on the basis of pre-agreed benchmarks of progress—be it reduced inflation, more children finishing primary school, or more completed external audits of government accounts. These changes deserve to be reinforced.

Allow me to introduce you too two people; their names are Nani and Kai. Nani attends a private school, has loads of peer support, and is a straight-A student. She lives with both of her parents and her three siblings, she’s the oldest. She’s diligent, organized, responsible, humble, passionate, creative but above all; very loveable-not in the romantic sense, but in a friend type of way. Then there is Kai. Kai attends an underfunded High School where teachers would prefer to be at home watching Netflix than at their job, she lives with a single mother of four kids; and she is the second oldest of nine siblings. She is constantly surrounded by negative peer influences, she suffers from major depression, ADD, and has

This essay aims to investigate two distinct solutions to increase the life expectancy in the developing countries.Life expectancy is the number of years in average that a person is expected to live depending on the conditions he\she is born into. Life expectancy varies from country to country; the developing world tends to have a low life expectancy due to lack of health, clean water and economic conditions. The countries that consist of low life expectancy are majorly the Sub Sahara Africa nations. Therefore, the expected years in which a person may live based on the socio-economic condition of the country itself, such as enough health care, accessibility to clean\safe water and education. Moreover, in 2000 the United Nations created the Millennium Development Goals, which consisted of eight goals; “eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV\AIDS, environmental sustainability and global partnership for development”. However, low life expectancy issues majorly focus on child mortality, poverty and education.

Financing is a major problem. Funds need to be properly utilized for social sector. There has to be short-term, medium-term and long-term plans for financing health related projects. Finances have to be mobilized from both public and private sources. The inter- linkages of various sectors and linkage of economy with outside are important. Trade can work both ways, but efforts should be to use it effectively for betterment of poor. Tax structure requires a re-look to mobilize more resources for investment in social sector. Institutions delivering services are weak and they need to be strengthened and new one created to have greater efficiency. Costing of specific intervention also require attention as it would depend up on institutions and policy environment. Selecting the best delivery system/ mechanism will reduce costs. Most MDGs cost estimates use a one-size fit all approach, based on linear relationships, which may not be true always. The cost of expanding the coverage of a service in health and education by an extra ten percentage points, for instance would depend on

The word ‘development’ has been an issue of great discussion in the media both in developing countries both in Africa and the world at large. The leaders of LDCs have for years been trying to change their countries for the better so as to bring them up to par with the developed countries of the world but can most developing countries can show, much of this effort has proved to be in vain as these countries are still struggling. These countries are in what is termed as the crisis of development which can be seen to be a result of two sets of factors; Internal and external factors. This paper is clearly going to identify and critically discuss both sets of factors of the crisis of development. Once this is done, the essay will move on to

This paper is a result of the Development Research Group. It is a piece of a bigger exertion by the World Bank to give open access to its examination and make a commitment to development approach exchanges the world over. Approach Research Working Papers are additionally posted on the Web.

(WHO 1998, 8, 11-12). WHO’s Millennium summit in 2000 produced the Millennium Declaration, series of collective priorities for peace and security, poverty reduction, the environment and human rights. These Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) are global but specifically targeted for the developing countries. (WHO 2013b).

Imagine being given the momentous challenge to make the world a better place. This is a near impossible challenge for an entire world of people, let alone one person. Now imagine having $75 billon to do it. I bet this challenge, given to us by Professor Bjørn Lamborg in his book How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, is looking a bit more plausible Once given the tools to change the world, the next step is to figure out where and how to spend it. Deciding on only one project or program to fund in hopes that it will change the world would be unrealistic but through a process of research and thorough thinking, a list can be narrowed down to a smaller number of top choices. An example of this would be the United Nations’ (UN’s) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs consists of eight different goals, that if completed would change the world tremendously, and in turn make the world a better place. Of these eight goals the one I found the most plausible to change the world, and continue changing it once completed, was the second goal: To achieve universal primary education by the year 2015. Although universal education was one of the many goals that was not completed by 2015, the UN decided to continue striving for its completion by 2030 with the help of the UN’s Sustainable Development goals (SDGs).