Perhaps we will manage to reach the Millennium Goals in 2015 but most likely we won’t. But what might be the reason for this? What’s needed and what is crucial in our fight against poverty and hunger, HIV/AIDS, Child Mortality or what is crucial for achieving the other Goals?
Gaston left the other day a comment on our blog saying that:
“I am moved by your initiative. We all know that 2015 is the target year of the MDGs. Half way in 2008, Ban Ki Moon has made it clear that the goals cannot be realised given the current trends. What makes this prospect bleaker is the number of new challenges facing the developed countries, especially the current global financial crisis. To think that promises of the MDGs to bail Africa and other developing regions out of poverty, hunger, diseases, illiteracy, gender balance,… is wishful thinking. It is only when ‘development partners’ realise the need to make Developing Ares’s human wealth more productive that the MDGs will have scored a point.”
Do you agree with Gaston, do you think the Goals can make a diffrence or is it indeed wishful thinking?
Please share your thoughts!
