On April 5, 2013, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline will be just 1,000 days away. Where do we stand on these ambitious goals? Have we collectively done enough to convert them into reality? And what needs to happen during the last 1,000 days to ensure that the world not only sprints to the finish line – but blows right through it?
Teeing up for this critical year, this report holds governments accountable to their past commitments on agriculture and food security and looks ahead to future opportunities for growth. Read the executive summary here.
589 million people in sub-Saharan Africa—68% of the population—do not have access to electricity or other modern energy services and roughly 30 African countries face endemic power shortages. This hampers services in health and education, profoundly limits economic development and disproportionately affects women. This lack of energy access is a major barrier to eradicating poverty in Africa, yet there is a way to change this. Providing access to reliable and affordable energy is one of the most powerful development multipliers—giving those trapped in subsistence lifestyles the means to work their way out of poverty.
This spring, the UN is meeting to decide the framework for ending global poverty. The agenda set at that meeting will affect the livelihoods, the health, and the futures of millions of the world’s poorest people. But right now, those people are not involved in that agenda-setting process. Worse yet, they don’t even know it’s happening. ONE believes that the path to ending extreme poverty must be one that factors in the voices of those actually living in extreme poverty.
Much progress has been made across these three targets, and many stakeholders are making significant contributions to the fight against AIDS. But ultimately, the report finds that without a heightened sense of urgency and without collective action starting in 2013, the beginning of the end of AIDS will remain a distant ambition, and millions of lives will hang in the balance.
How can ensure the world’s poor help define the framework after 2015? ONE’s new report from Global Policy Director Ben Leo and Research Assistant Khai Hoan Tram examines the idea behind a global poll titled What the World Wants — a poll that asks the world’s ordinary citizens, including the poorest and most marginalized, what they really want out of the new global development goals.
With the economic crisis bringing austerity to much of Europe, this year’s report is especially important. In times of plenty it is easy to be generous – but in times of crisis, keeping those promises counts more than ever.
Download our 2011 World AIDS Day report featuring inspirational stories and testimonials from the front lines of the fight against AIDS. The beginning of the end of AIDS starts with all of us.
On the two-year anniversary of the L’Aquila commitments, which saw leaders promise to invest $22 billion in agriculture development, donors have only delivered a fifth of the money promised with just one year to go until the deadline.
ONE’s latest DATA Report details our annual assessment of the progress made by G8 countries towards their commitments to sub-Saharan Africa made at the 2005 Gleneagles Summit.
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