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The eight MDGs were adopted in the year 2000, when leaders meeting at the United Nations agreed to cut extreme poverty and hunger by half, fight disease, improve water safety and sanitation, expand education, and empower girls and women.
It’s high time for a strategy of peace through sustainable development – including investments in health, education, livelihoods, water and sanitation, and irrigation – in today’s hotspots, starting with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Women’s advocacy has also shaped a new approach to poverty alleviation in Morocco, in the form of the National Initiative for Human Development, which integrates efforts to improve education with better sanitation and housing.
Sierra Leone’s minister of health and sanitation first warned of the possibility of widespread fraud in May 2015; he even called for a full accounting of money received and spent.
These efforts have generally focused on methods for improving water sanitation and energy delivery.
Governments should thus strengthen their ministries of infrastructure (including power, roads, water and sanitation, and information and communication technologies), as well as their national development banks, so that they can properly design long-term infrastructure projects and programs.
President Bush should be made to understand that the US will find no true international support if America speaks incessantly about terrorism while doing almost nothing about the problems that really affect most of the world: poverty, lack of access to safe water and sanitation, vulnerability to disease, and climate change.
Many cancers are likely caused by chronic viral infections, another reason that it is surely more sensible to attack infectious diseases by improving access to clean water, basic sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccines than it is to build radiotherapy facilities.
Reconstruction – of roads, buildings, and water and sanitation systems – will employ tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Haitian construction workers, and boost the regeneration of towns.
Expanded access to renewable energy would benefit African countries in many other ways, too, such as by reducing poverty, improving gender equality, enhancing sanitation, and limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
Of course, high-profile issues that affect people’s daily lives – for example, health, education, food security, clean water and sanitation, and the environment – attract the most attention.
We need to build resilient systems to ensure access to potable water for all people, and to improve water-delivery and sanitation provisions in Africa’s rapidly growing urban areas.
Over the past six years, the African Development Bank has invested $3.3 billion in projects to expand access to water and improve sanitation, with around $2.2 billion of that going to urban services that reach at least 17 million people.
And with a $40 million sanitation project, the AfDB helped to lower the proportion of the city’s malaria-afflicted population from 16% to 12%.
In the DRC alone, IUWM systems can be expected to improve water delivery and sanitation for 17 million people by 2030.
This effort will help to develop business innovations for affordable and sustainable sanitation services in Africa, which could reach two million urban dwellers directly and another six million people through subsidiary projects.
But the AfDB is determined to provide opportunities that pay dividends for African communities – in public health, improved sanitation, economic development, and environmental protection.
Infant mortality has been cut in half, more citizens than ever enjoy educational opportunities, and electric, telephone, and sanitation services have expanded to serve a greater number of people.
For example, 43% of people still lack access to basic sanitation facilities, and many of Asia’s cities, burdened by burgeoning populations, suffer from poor sanitation, deteriorating environmental conditions, and inadequate housing and infrastructure.
Rather than focusing on income inequality, therefore, Asia’s policymakers should focus on the drivers of inequality of opportunity –including unequal access to public services, such as education, electricity, water, and sanitation.
The reason: we are there with what is required – medical aid, sanitation, and clean water.
Investment in basic infrastructure is critical – clean water, sanitation, healthcare, education, and durable shelter.
They began to demand improvement in roads, sanitation, electricity, public security, and other necessities of rural and urban development – in short, they demanded better governance.
Recently, the Copenhagen Consensus project gathered eight of the world’s top economists – including five Nobel laureates – to examine research on the best ways to tackle 10 global challenges: air pollution, conflict, disease, global warming, hunger and malnutrition, lack of education, gender inequity, lack of water and sanitation, terrorism, and trade barriers.
But the reality is that all 17 SDGs – from ending hunger and providing clean water and sanitation to conserving ecosystems – depend, to varying degrees, on how effectively we harness science and technology.
Water Pipe DreamsCHAPEL HILL, NC – Despite recent progress, more than one billion people still lack decent water supplies, and more than two billion go without sanitation services.
But, while we often assume that the benefits of improving water and sanitation systems always outweigh the costs, this is not always true.
Piped water and sanitation networks are expensive.
If we calculate the time and energy lost in developing nations to gathering, treating, and storing water, and the health burden caused by a lack of decent drinking water and sanitation, the costs of creating a typical water and sewer network can remain higher than the benefits.
Estimates of what people in poor nations are willing to pay for piped water do not exceed the costs for many water and sanitation projects.
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