When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Michaél Martin, T.D., Ireland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, co-hosted the session “Partnering to Reduce Child Undernutrition” at the MDGs, world leaders and international organizations were asked to start putting more of an emphasis on the vital 1,000-day nutrition window that starts from the moment of conception to the 2nd birthday of each child.
As Nicholas Kristof said in his New York Times column last week, the cycle of poverty in the developing world can start as soon as a child is conceived:
As world leaders converge on New York for the UN General Assembly meeting this week, ONE cofounder Bono writes today in his column for the New York Times that one test of the meeting’s success will be whether leaders recommit to the Millennium Development Goals, “possibly the most visionary deal that most people have never heard of.”
Bono writes of the many successes achieved in part because of the goals – from millions of lives saved from preventable disease, to tens of millions more kids in school – and calls on leaders to do three specific things: 1.) fully fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the campaign to ensure no child is born with HIV by 2015, 2.) enact transparency legislation in Britain, the EU and across the G20 that echoes the recently passed US legislation requiring energy companies to report payments to government officials and 3.) better track world leaders pledges and progress against them, so we know what has been promised and whether it has been delivered.
In case you weren’t tuned in to the State Department’s “Conversations with America” series yesterday, you missed a great preview of next week’s gathering of world leaders in New York City to accelerate and drive the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It starred ONE’s own David Lane and USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah.
While listening to the discussion, several themes jumped out at me.
This blog post is part of our special coverage on the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit. Keep an eye out for more posts like these throughout the week.
The U.N. Summit on the MDGs is a week from today — but don’t panic if you can’t immediately remember the difference between MDG 4 or 6 or 3 or 8. We’ve got you covered!
Here’s YouTube playlist of just a few of our favorite MDG videos through the years. Organizations like UNICEF, GOOD magazine and the U.N. Foundation have done an incredible job of interpreting the eight poverty-fighting goals. And while a few of the stats are now out of date (since the videos span over several years), the overall message is still exactly the same: it’s time to come together and help achieve the MDGs.
Got a video to add to our MDG playlist? Share it with us in the comments below.
This Thursday, our CEO and President David Lane will be joining USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah in the U.S. State Department’s Conversations with America, a live video discussion series on foreign policy and global issues.
This week’s conversation will focus on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the U.N. Summit on the MDGs just around the corner, this is the perfect time to chime in with any last-minute questions on MDG challenges, opportunities and next steps.
The discussion will take place online on Thursday at 10:15 AM (EDT). We’ll post up the video stream right here on the ONE Blog.
I hope you’re excited as we are — past Conversations with America participants include Ambassador Holbrooke, Ambassador Eric Goosby and Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith. We’re honored to be participating in this event, so join us if you can.
We’re officially kicking off our special coverage of the U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) today. Keep an eye out for more blog posts on the MDGs throughout the week — and be sure to tune into the blog during the Summit. We’ll be reporting live from New York City.
So what’s this new report about? Here’s a quick description: If the world is serious about tackling extreme poverty and disease, then it’s time to step up our investments in Africa’s women and girls — and the U.N. MDG Summit in New York City next week is the perfect place to begin.
Study after study has shown that, if women are given the tools they need, they can help lift communities out of poverty and transform millions of lives. For instance, when women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90 percent of it into their families, compared with only 30 to 40 percent for men.
And the good news is that the world is starting to sit up and take notice of the African women who have been leading some of the incredible advances on the continent over the past decade. The women profiled in this new ONE report –- from a Tanzanian sweet potato farmer to the director general of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission –- are all leaders in their own right.
But even with all these powerful stats and unbelievable female leaders, women worldwide still make up an estimated 70 percent of all people living in extreme poverty.
It’s time to make a change—and we hope this new report will help move us in the right direction. Filled with compelling stats, stories and recommendations for next steps, we hope you’ll take a read and let us know what you think!
Please welcome Brooke Riley to the ONE Blog. She is our policy team’s most recent addition and will be assisting with global health research.
Today is the final day of the groundbreaking Global Maternal Health Conference, the first international technical conference focused exclusively on maternal health. This exciting conference, organized by EngenderHealth’s Maternal Health Task Force, brings together more than 600 maternal health experts in New Delhi, India to discuss one of the most challenging fields in global health.
Although progress has been made, maternal mortality rates remain unacceptably high, especially in the developing world. Approximately 343,000 mothers die each year during childbirth and 80% of those deaths could be prevented if women had access to basic maternal health services.
This conference aims to build consensus and catalyze action around evidence, programs and policy to achieve Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Five and improve the lives of mothers around the world.
To bring attention to pressing maternal health needs globally, the first two days of the conference have featured numerous exciting events and presentations, including a film screening of ONE supporter Christy Turlington’s film “No Woman, No Cry.”
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