Challenges into achieving the millennium development goals

Abstract: This report examines the biggest challenges hindering Sub-Saharan to achieve the set millennium development. It begins with the enlightenment that led to the setting of the target goals and seeks to verify the willingness of these nations and the hurdles they encounter.

1. Introduction

The purpose of this report is to trail the efforts in sub-Saharan states to achieve the MDGs. It seeks to find out the kind of effort the sub-Saharan states are applying to meet the goals, what holds back the region from fulfilling the goals. If the international community has any interest this lagging behind. What they have achieved and within what period.

2. Literature Review

The MDGs came out as a result of series of international conferences during the 1900s. They are meant to uphold human dignity, equality and equity.

To reduce poverty levels in SSA by nearly a half by 2015 whose percentage during the 1990s was 55% .The definition of poverty then was those living on less than $1 a day. Those hunger-stricken were estimated to be 236 million in 2007 in SSA.

The gender disparities in pupils and students attending primary and high school to be balanced by 2015. In 2001 it was estimated that 40 million children who ought to be in school were not. The Universal Primary School education remains a challenge in many states in the region. Ensuring female empowerment and reduction of gender biases was also a concern.

Child mortality in SSA where it was recorded as 100 deaths per 1000 births was still high even to Less Developed Countries of Asia. Malnutrition is still rampant in SSA.

Maternal health is another factor having a relationship with level of education and poverty and income levels.

According to a UN report in 1999 over 24.4 million people were living with HIV/AIDS. This could later translate into donor funding for ARVs and related cases.

3. Methodology

The report will use research methodologies that will gather relevant data from scholastic databases and case studies. Later this data will be complied and analyzed to form the basis of our arguments. We have identified various case studies that will assist incoming up with the report. The report will use both quantitative and qualitative tools to collect tools. However, qualitative epistemological position is better since it considers the significance of locating the research work within Sub Saharan Africa and the social cultural and historical background of the research. The persisting conflict in Congo, scope of malaria in Kenya, hindering effects of natural disasters and the global recession aftermath.

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4. Discussion and analysis

Three SSA countries had already achieved the goal of halving the poor before 2015 while some others are also promising to do the same by the set period. The main challenge is the increasing unemployment levels in the region. Halving those under hunger had been achieved by two states. The main problem is the fact that African states are not prepared to natural calamities like floods, drought, pests and diseases. That pests and diseases combined destroy a considerable portion of crops and livestock. Several countries had already achieved the Universal Primary Education goal including those in the Eastern African part. Child mortality however can only be achieved by individual states and no region as a whole is able to meet this goal.