Nepal likely to achieve most MDGs targets: Report
KATHMANDU:
Nepal is likely to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets set for 2015, according to a report.
However, reducing proportion of population below a minimum level of dietary energy consumption, proportion of underweight children aged 6-59 months, proportion of stunted children aged 6-59 months, survival rate to grade five, literacy rate for 15-24 years old, proportion of skill birth attendants, universal access to reproductive health and proportion of population using improved sanitation facility will be difficult to achieve. said ‘Millennium Development Goals: Needs Assessment for Ne-pal 2010’ launched today.
The National Planning Commission and UNDP today launched the report that has stressed some strategic intervention. “The planning commission is strengthening the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to monitor MDG related outcomes,” vice chair of the national think tank Dr Dinesh Chandra Devkota said, adding that the government will fully take ownership and leadership of development strategies.
However, it points out that during 2011 and 2015, a total of Rs 1,395.8 billion is required to achieve targets. Of the total, there is a gap of Rs 451.4 billion, a 32.34 per cent. In the context of shifting global priorities towards fighting global recession and climate change implications, it is difficult to manage.
Source: THT
Nepal is likely to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets set for 2015, according to a report.
However, reducing proportion of population below a minimum level of dietary energy consumption, proportion of underweight children aged 6-59 months, proportion of stunted children aged 6-59 months, survival rate to grade five, literacy rate for 15-24 years old, proportion of skill birth attendants, universal access to reproductive health and proportion of population using improved sanitation facility will be difficult to achieve. said ‘Millennium Development Goals: Needs Assessment for Ne-pal 2010’ launched today.
The National Planning Commission and UNDP today launched the report that has stressed some strategic intervention. “The planning commission is strengthening the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to monitor MDG related outcomes,” vice chair of the national think tank Dr Dinesh Chandra Devkota said, adding that the government will fully take ownership and leadership of development strategies.
However, it points out that during 2011 and 2015, a total of Rs 1,395.8 billion is required to achieve targets. Of the total, there is a gap of Rs 451.4 billion, a 32.34 per cent. In the context of shifting global priorities towards fighting global recession and climate change implications, it is difficult to manage.
Source: THT
