GPRS IMPLEMENTATION

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Brief Overview Monitoring the Millennium
Development Goals By Winfred Nelson NDPC

• November 04 2004

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Efforts to Achieve the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs)

• Evidenced by adaptation of the MDG linkages to
  the GPRS

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Consistency Between GPRS and the MDGs
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• The GPRS and the MDGs are all aimed at the same
  goal of creating wealth and reducing poverty
• The GPRS is the Ghanaian expression in pursuit of
  achieving the MDGs.
• In other words it is the programmatic instrument
  for operationalising MDG.

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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

• Halving the Proportion of those in extreme
  poverty between 1990-2015
• In 1992 extreme poverty was 36.5
• Ghana-18 by 2015. Requires 0.72 point decline
  in extreme poverty levels per annum.
• GPRS took a cue from MDG target
• 27 in 1999 ------21 by end of 2004 Average of
  1.2 point decline
• 0.5 point above the 0.72 suggested by MDGs

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MDG\Target
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Challenges

• Combating hunger-child malnutrition on the
  rise-25 in 1998-36 in 2003
• Reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Increasing primary enrolment
• Improving access to water supply
• Inadequate data to to allow effective monitoring
  in the reversal of malaria incidence and gender

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Vielen Dank!
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Connection of MDG 7 to other MDGs
MDG 3 Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Poor women exposed to indoor air pollution,
burden of collecting fuel wood and water, and
unequal access to land and natural resources
MDG2 Achieve Universal Basic Education
MDG 1 Eradicate extreme Poverty and Hunger
Continuous Degradation of natural resources
such as food, medicinal plants, fuel wood etc.
and land degradation might lead to poverty
Availability of water and energy sources.
Particularly girls spend more hours gather ring
water and firewood Burden of environmental
health threats
MDG 4 Reduce Child Mortality Environmentally
related diseases- indoor and local air pollution,
unsafe water, poor sanitation
MDG 8Global Partnership For Growth and Devt
MDG7 Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
MDG 5 Improve Maternal Health Physical stresses
associated with the gathering of environmental
resources such as firewood, good drinking
water. Food availability, water quality, poor
sanitation etc caused by environmental
degradation tend to affect maternal health.
MDG 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases

Environmental degradation might lead to poor
local economic Mishaps, rural-urban migration
and overcrowding. These may lead to HIV/AIDS
etc. Increase in temp associated with climate
change,poor sanitation conducive for vector
multiplication
Source Authors own construct
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• the MDGs establish broad development agenda but
  they do not in themselves offer plans of action
  for a particular country to achieve the goals.
• the GPRS which in a way is the Ghanaian
  programmatic instrument in pursuit of achieving
  the MDGs Offers opportunities for integrating the
  environment into policy making