Millennium Development Goals Report - Jordan 2004

The Millennium

Development Goals

Jordan Report 2004

Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation

United Nations in Jordan

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MDGs

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Photo CreditsCover : Rami Abdulrahman

Goal1 : Yousef Allan

Goal2 : UNICEF/Jordan/Jane Taylor

Goal3 : UNDP/Jordan/Bill Lyons

Goal4 : UNICEF/Jordan/Giacomo Pirozzi

Goal5 : UNRWA

Goal6 : Ministry of Health

Goal7 : UNDP/Jordan/Rami Abdulrahman

Goal8 : Jordan News Agency (Petra)

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The Steering Committee

The Technical Committee

Civil Society Organizations (please refer to Annex 1)

United Nations Agencies

Lead Authors

Layout and Graphic Design

Acknowledgments

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Preface

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Speech by His Majesty King Abdullah IIAt the Millennium Summit of the United Nations

New York, September 6,2000

Introduction

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Progress Towards Meeting The Millennium

Development Goals in Jordan

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GOAL

1Eradicate Extreme

Poverty and Hunger

A. Progress to date

Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people

whose income is less than one dollar a day

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B. challenges

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C. Strengths

D. Recommendations

Policies/Macro

Poverty programmes

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Human Resources/Education

Employment Generation

Health

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2Achieve Universal

Primary Education

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A. Progress to date

Target 3: Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls

alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

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B. Challenges

Policies/Macro level

Teachers/Students

Special Needs

C. Strengths

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D. Recommendations

Policies/Macro level

Curriculum

Special Needs

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Teachers

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3Promote Gender

Equality and

Empowerment of

Women

A. Progress to date

Target 4 : Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary

education preferably by 2005 and in all levels of education no later

than 2015.

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Political Participation

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Suggested Target: Increase the percentage of political and economicequality of women by 2015.

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B. Challenges

C. Strengths

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D. Recommendations

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4Reduce Child

Mortality

A. Progress to date

Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-

five mortality rate

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Existing Capacity for Goal Achievement

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Policies/Micro Level

Resources

Data

C. Strengths

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Policies/Micro Level

Data

Capacity

Pre and Post-natal Care

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5Improve Maternal

Health

A. Progress to date

Target 6: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the

maternal mortality ratio

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B. Challenges

C. Strengths

D. Recommendations

Adovcacy

Capacity

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GOAL

6Combat HIV/AIDS,

Malaria and Other

Diseases

A. Progress to date

Target 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread

of HIV/AIDS

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7Ensure

Environmental

Sustainability

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Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into

country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of

environmental resources

Target 10: Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable

access to safe drinking water

Target 11: Have achieved by 2020 a significant improvement in the

lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

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Policies/Macro Level

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Management Issues

Monitoring

Advocacy

Natural Resources

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Policies/Macro Level

Natural Resource Management

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Data

Advocacy

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GOAL

8Developing a Global

Partnership for

Development

A. Progress to date

The objectives for this goal are comprehensive and represent the creation of atrue global partnership to achieve the MDGs. In particular the goal highlightsthe following:

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Partnerships

Employment Generation

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ANNEX 1

listing of participating

organizations

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ANNEX 2

COSTING THE MDGS

RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS FOR MEETING MILLENNIUM

DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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KEY DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS

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ANNEX 6

REFERENCES

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ANNEX 7

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