Essays about: "The Millennium Development Goals"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 77 essays containing the words The Millennium Development Goals.

  1. 21. Female Enrollment in Logar Teacher Training Colleges of Afghanistan. : Obstacles and opportunities for female enrolment.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Ahmadzai Mohammad Dawood; [2015]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In Afghanistan, more than three decades of war eroded access to education for Afghan children all over the country. After the fall of Taliban regime in late 2001, Ministry of Education (MoE) and international community has taken significant steps toward extending access to equal educational opportunities for all school-aged children, as well as committed to achieve Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in order to reach to gender equality and to eliminate gender discrimination in education, but still gender disparity remains a controversial issue in education in rural, as well as in urban areas. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Ability to Participate : A Study on the Contributions of Persons with Disabilities in the Sustainable Development Goals

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Globala studier

    Author : Linnea ammon; Alexandra Blixt; [2015]
    Keywords : participatory development; post-2015 development agenda; persons with disabilities;

    Abstract : The study investigates recent efforts made by the United Nations to ensure the participation of persons with disabilities in the designing of a post-2015 development framework that will build on the progress catalysed by the Millennium Development Goals. Anchored in the participatory development theory, the study examines the consultation process held between 2012 and 2013, analysing the correlation between the extensive online consultation and the Open Working Groups’ proposal for Sustainable Development Goals. READ MORE

  4. 23. Whose and what justice? : A content analysis of the United Nations' Post-2015 Development Agenda

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Pontus Wallin; [2015]
    Keywords : Post-2015; MDGs; social justice; distributive; retributive; transformative; justice;

    Abstract : As the timeframe of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is running out this year, the Post-2015 Development Agenda soon arrive at its final negotiations. Criticisms of the MDGs have primarily concerned the inaccurate implementation of social justice to the most vulnerable and poor, and the limited understanding of the underlying interconnectedness of the goals. READ MORE

  5. 24. Health-care workers caring for children : The Early Childhood Development Program in La Paz, Bolivia

    University essay from Röda Korsets Högskola

    Author : Anna Lindström; Louise Hellberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Early Childhood Development; Children; Health Promotion; Global Nursing; Ethnography;

    Abstract : ABSTRACT Background: Bolivia has a high child mortality rate and many children´s living conditions are inadequate. In order to reach the Millennium Development Goals non-governmental organizations play an important role when the governmental efforts are insufficient. READ MORE

  6. 25. UN's (in)consistency on gender?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Vera Atarodi; [2014]
    Keywords : The Millennium Development Goals; The Sustainable Development Goals; Foucault; Discourse analysis; Postcolonial feminism; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The development discourse on the international agenda is currently dominated by the MDGs and the SDGs, which is why it is important to analyze them. In this thesis my main purpose was to understand whether there were any changes within the discourses of the criticism on the different development goals, when using a postcolonial feminist theory. READ MORE