UN Millennium Development Goals
SAC #2 Practice Questions
Two Millennium Development Goals include:
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Target: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
Target: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Analyse the data in the following tables that shows progress towards their achievement according to regions, and answer the questions below.
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women-progress
Source: United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011. New York 2011.
Source: United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Report. New York 2011.
74Source: United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Report. New York 2011.
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases progress
Source: United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Report. New York 2011.
Source: United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Report. New York 2011.
Source: United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Report. New York 2011.
Questions
Question 1
a. Identify which of the two Millennium Development Goals where progress towards its target achievement has been the slowest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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b. Describe the purpose of this Millennium Development Goal.
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c. Discuss the impact that a lack of progress on this goal may have on health and human development.
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Question 2
a. Outline the improvement that has been made on achieving gender equality and empowering women
(Goal 3) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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b. Discuss how the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal 2 will produce sustainable human development by discussing the interrelationships between health, human development and sustainability.
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Source: United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Progress Chart. New York 2011.
Question 3
Using the United Nations – Millennium Development Goals Progress Chart above:
a. Identify the goals that you believe are most concerning in terms of meeting the 2015 targets and explain why:
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b. Identify the regions that you believe are at most risk in terms of meeting the 2015 targets and explain why:
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c. Write a brief summary description describing the overall progress towards achieving the 2015 Millennium Development Goals
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