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So, World - how's the Millennium Development Goals going with 6 months to go?
28th June 2015
How was the U.N. going to celebrate the new Millennium in 2000? New building for them? Make a film about their success (no - this isn't FIFA). Big party? None of the above. It was decided that the most appropriate act would be to reduce extreme poverty around the world. This couldn't be done overnight, so 15 years was considered the appropriate timescale. And what to do? Well, tackling such an intransigent global issue needed to cover the 'how' and the 'means' as well as the 'style'. So 8 Millennium Development Goals were identified for concerted action by global organisations (the United Nations), global institutions such as the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and World Bank, NGOs (non-government organisations such as the Red Cross and Red Crescent), and national governments. The actions were to run from 2000 to 2015. With just six months to go - what's the report card looking like?
Andy Day
Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.