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The Millennium Development Goals –
A Decade of Achievements
and Challenges at the Regional Level
Bader Omar AlDafa
Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary UNESCWA
The Arab Region has undertaken significant efforts towards
achieving the MDGs, but progress is uneven.
Global context
• Compound crises lead to
significant setbacks on
overall economic
performance
Regional characteristics
• disparate levels of
development comparing
high-income GCC countries
and LDCs
•
political tensions and
smoldering conflict
•
high proportion of youth
Slide 2
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (MDG 1)
Undernourished population (percentage)
Comoros
Djibouti
Yemen
The Sudan
Palestine
Mauritania
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Syria
Algeria
Libya
Morocco
Tunisia
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
UAE
LDCs
Arab Mashreq
Maghreb
GCC
Early 1990s
Late 2000s
2015 target
Arab region
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Slide 3
Achieve universal primary education (MDG 2)
Enrolment ratio in primary education (latest available data, percentage)
Girls
Boys
Egypt
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestine
Syria
Algeria
Morocco
Tunisia
Bahrain
Kuwait
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Comoros
Djibouti
Mauritania
The Sudan
Yemen
Arab Mashreq
Maghreb
Gulf
LDCs
Arab region
100
50
0
50
100
Slide 4
Promote gender equality and empower women (MDG 3)
Seats held by women in national parliaments (latest data, percentage)
Iraq
Tunisia
UAE
Mauritania
The Sudan
Djibouti
Syria
Morocco
Somalia
Algeria
Libya
Kuwait
Jordan
Lebanon
Comoros
Bahrain
Egypt
Yemen
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
LDCs
Arab Mashreq
Maghreb
GCC
Arab region
25.5
22.8
22.5
22.1
18.1
13.8
12.4
10.5
8.2
7.7
7.7
3.1
6.4
4.7
3
2.5
1.8
0.3
11
10
10
4
10
Early 1990s
Late 2000s
Slide 5
Reduce child mortality (MDG 4)
MDG 4: Under-five mortality rate per 1,000 live births
Somalia
Djibouti
Mauritania
The Sudan
Yemen
Comoros
Iraq
Algeria
Egypt
Morocco
Lebanon
Palestine
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Tunisia
Libya
Syria
Qatar
Oman
Kuwait
Bahrain
UAE
LDCs
Arab Mashreq
Maghreb
GCC
Early 1990s
Late 2000s
2015 target
Arab region
0
50
100
150
200
250
Slide 6
Improving maternal health (MDG 5)
285
Arab region
LDCs
GCC
Maghreb
Arab Mashreq
594
22
188
171
Somalia
Mauritania
Djibouti
The Sudan
Yemen
Comoros
Iraq
Morocco
Algeria
Lebanon
Syria
Egypt
Tunisia
Libya
Oman
Jordan
UAE
Bahrain
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Kuwait
1400
820
650
Births attended by skilled health
personnel (percentage)
450
430
400
GCC
300
240
180
150
130
130
100
97
64
62
37
32
18
12
4
0
200
400
Arab Mashreq
Maghreb
LDCs
Early 1990s
Late 2000s
Arab region
0
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
20
40
60
80
100
Combat HIV/Aids, Malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)
In the 1990s the tuberculosis incidence in Arab LDCs was about nine times higher
than in other subregions.
Despite an overall decline, this gap widened to a 13 times higher tuberculosis
incidence rate in the late 2000s.
82
81
80
78
76
74
72
70
71
68
66
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
Tuberculosis incidence rate per 100,000 population
Arab region
Slide 8
Ensure environmental sustainability (MDG 7)
Target 7.C: Population using improved drinking water sources (percentage)
Lebanon
Qatar
UAE
Egypt
Jordan
Tunisia
Djibouti
Palestine
Syria
Algeria
Comoros
Morocco
Oman
Iraq
Libya
The Sudan
Yemen
Mauritania
Somalia
Saudi Arabia
Early 1990s
Late 2000s
2015 target
GCC
Arab Mashreq
Maghreb
LDCs
Arab region
0
20
40
60
80
100
120 Slide 9
Global partnership for development (MDG 8)
Target 8.F: Fixed telephone lines, mobile telephone subscriptions and
Internet users per 100 people in the Arab Region
70
Mobile
60
50
40
30
20
Internet
10
Fixed line
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Slide 10
The way forward….
… renewed commitment
to the attainment of the MDGs by 2015 and delivering better results of global,
regional and national partnerships for development
•
Consideration of the MDGs as a
holistic framework instead of
treating each development goal
independently: Its elements are
linked in a systemic manner and
therefore integrative policy
response should be designed
•
Pursuing equity-focused
approaches more strongly (i.e.
equal access and chances,
concern for most vulnerable
groups) will accelerate progress
towards the attainment of the
MDGs and be more cost-effective
•
Accelerating of development
and implementation of
legislation on equal rights and
equal opportunities in all areas
(i.e. economic participation, social
protection)
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Mainstreaming the MDGs into
national policies (i.e. national
poverty reduction strategies)
•
Dedication of resources (i.e.
honoring the agreed ODA
commitments)
We need to review our strategy and accelerate implementation
Thank you!
Data source:
ESCWA (2010): Charting the progress of the MDGs in the Arab Region - A Statistical Portrait