The Maldives has achieved all but three of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), local media has reported.
However, the country must do more to promote gender equality and empowering women, ensuring environmental sustainability, and creating global partnerships for development, according to Haveeru.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) made the announcement Monday (June 18), adding that the Maldives’ country report on the MDGs will be released this year.
The last report on the Maldives’ progress in trying to achieve the eight MDGs was published in 2010.
Thus far, the Maldives has achieved the MDGs of universal primary education, reducing child mortality rates, improving maternal health, as well as combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
However, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) recently announced that the Maldives has also met part of the goal to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by halving the percentage of hungry people in the country.
The MDGs are a blueprint agreed upon by all the world’s countries and leading development institutions to galvanize efforts to meet needs of the world’s poorest, with the achievement target date of 2015.
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How hard can it be for Dhivehistan to achieve these goals given the small size and the high GDP? Apparently very, if it clashes with the mullah mindest of Dhivehistanis. CEDAW was ratified in the early 90s and still not budging on gender discrimination. As for global partnership? Forget it. Dhivehistan should break ties with Hindu/Buddhist SAARC and join the Arab league. That's is Dhivehistan's real master.