Tuesday, September 21, 2010

[IWS] AfDB: [AFRICA] MDG REPORT 2010: Assessing Progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals [20 September 2010]

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African Development Bank (AfDB)

 

Assessing Progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals: MDG Report 2010 [20 September 2010]

http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/MGDS%202010%20Eng.pdf

[full-text, 122 pages]

 

Table of

Contents

List of Tables . iv

List of Figures v

Note to the Reader . vii

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

List of Abbreviations xiii

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION . 1

SECTION II: TRACKING PROGRESS . 5

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 5

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education 14

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women 21

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality . . . . . . . . . . .  . . 28

Goal 5: Improve maternal health . 33

Goal 6: Combat HIV, AIDS, malaria, and other major diseases 41

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability . 51

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development 57

SECTION III: THE ROLE OF GOAL-SPECIFIC AND INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATIONS

IN ACCELERATING PROGRESS TOWARD THE MDGs IN AFRICA 74

3.1 Goal-specific innovations . 74

3.2 Broad-based institutional innovations 78

SECTION IV: CONCLUSIONS AND AN AGENDA FOR ACTION 84

References and Web Resources . 90

Annex 1: Official list of MDG indicators . 95

Annex 2: African optimism about the future 100

Annex 3: Global Peace Index (GPI) rankings and scores of African countries (2007–2010) . 101

Annex 4: Global Hunger Index (GHI) for African countries 102

Annex 5: Composition of subregional country groupings . 103

 



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