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      Second Progress Report on the MDGs
    
   
Second Philippines Progress Report on the
Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) consist of strategies to fight poverty, ensure human development and build prosperity for the greatest number of Filipino people.

Since the Philippines first resolved to adopt the MDGs, it has made encouraging strides, particularly towards the attainment of targets on reducing extreme poverty, child mortality, the incidence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; on improving gender equality in education; and improving households adequate dietary intake as well as access to safe drinking water.









 

   Philippine Progress Report on the Millennium Development Goals
   
   
The MDGs at Work

In September 2000, 189 member-states of the UN - including the Philippines - committed to the ideals that rich and poor countries alike should work together to achieve peace and security, respect human rights, promote good governance and strive for development, with particular attention on the needs of the poor, vulnerable and children of the world through the Millennium Declaration. The UN member-states then created and committed to set a quantifiable, measurable and time-bound development goals and targets for global human development, called the Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by 2015.

Since 2000, the Philippines has achieved much progress towards attaining the MDGs, particularly in terms of gender equality, reducing child mortality and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Although there are serious challenges and threats that remain with regard to targets on maternal health, access to reproductive health services, nutrition, primary education and environmental sustainability in the country, glaring disparities that persist across regions and severe MDG funding constraints, the country is very much committed to overcoming these hurdles to achieve the Goals by 2015.

 
   A Common Country Assessment of the Philippines
   
   

A Common View, A Common Journey
A Common Country Assessment of the Philippines

This Common Country Assessment (CCA) is an in-depth analysis of the development problems in the Philippines, undertaken through a participatoy process of consultations among United Nations agencies, its development partners both in the goverment and civil society, and with other donor agencies in the country.

It builds upon the programme of reform launched by the UN Secretary-General in 1997, preparing the UN for the challenges of the 21st century and emphasising its mandate in developing standards and goals arising from the UN conventions and global conferences.

In particular, the CCA was driven by the principles and goals of the Millennium Declaration, especially the MDGs. It also builds on the developmental objectives of the Government of the Philippines, articulated in its Medium-Term Development Plan as well as commitments made in the context of international conventions, conferences and protocols.


 

   UNDAF 2005
    
   
United Nations Development Assistance Framework
in the Philippines (2005-2009)

The United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) is the result of an ongoing consultative process intended to provide an analysis of how the United Nations System can respond to national priorities and needs. The UNDAF is guided by the goals and targets of the Millennium Development Goals of 2006, signed by the Government of the Philippines, and the detailed national priorities of the Medium-Term Development Plan 2001-2004 activities upon which the individual United Nations agencies, funds and programmes will formulate their actions for the period of 2005-2009.

The UNDAF thus frames the United Nations System's assistance to the people and Government of the Republic of the Philippines. Five inter-related areas of cooperation have emerged as particularly critical for the United Nations System's support between 2005 and 2009: macroeconomical stability, broad-based and equitable development; basic social services; good governance; environmental sustainability; and conflict prevention and peace building.

 

Unleashing Entrepreneurship
    
   


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Responding to the Millennium Development Challenge:
A Roadmap for Philippine Business

 “In an age of interdependence, global citizenship – based on trust and a sense of shared responsibility – is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than 1 billion people are denied the minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as a problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation
and conflict that are holding back the developing world.”









 

UNDAC Mission to Philippines
   
   
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UNDAC Mission to Philippines Assessment of National Disaster Response Capacity

The landslides and flashfloods resulting from a series of typhoons that hit Eastern Luzon in late 2004 were painful reminders of the vulnerabiltiy of the Philippine Archipelago to natural disasters. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, El Nino droughts and typhoons are among the host of natural disasters that may affect the Philippines. In addition, the country is also exposed to threats of chemical and industrial, complex humanitarian , as well as health disasters that prevail in the region.

This United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team (UNDAC) deployed to the Philippines follows the recent coordination efforts demontrated by the Directory of the UN Country Team and UNDAC team working during the floods and landslides in December 2004. The main purpose of this mission is to evaluate the national disaster management system in the areas of disaster preparedness and response. It should emphasize that this two-week mission aims to provide a "snapshot" of the current situation and focuses mainly on the response and prepardeness capacities of the Goverment of Philippines in dealing large-scale natural disasters.

 

Sustaining Women's Human Rights and Gender Equality
   
   


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United Nations Gender Strategy Framework in the Philippines 2005-2006
Sustaining Women's Human Rights and Gender Equality

As poverty has a woman's face, it has become clear that ending poverty can only be accomplished if women and men have equal rights. The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan reiterated this commitment during this year's International Women's Day Celebration. The Secretary-General emphasised that there is no tool more effective for development than the empowerment of women. He added that every society that wishes to overcome poveryt hunger, armed conflicts and disease as well as reach its full collective portential must draw fully on the talents and contribution of all its members.


 

Unleashing Entrepreneurship
    
   


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Unleashing Entrepreneurship
Making Business Work for the Poor
Report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Ending poverty, the aspiration of the Millennium Development Goals, is the overriding developmental objective of the 21st century. Despite great progress in the past 50 years, 1.2 billion people - one-fifth of the people on Earth - live on less than US$1 a day without access to many of the social services basic to a decent human life. Their plight requires a global response making full use of all the financial, intellectual and organizational resources that we can muster.

This report offers recommendations on how the major actors - goverments, public development institutions, the private sector and civil society organizations - can modify their action and approaches to significally enhance the ability of the private sector to advance the development process. The objective of poverty alleviation leads us to focus on developing businesses that create wealth by unleashing the capacity of local entrepreneurs.

 


LGU Guide on MDG Localization
   
   


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LGU Guide on Millennium Development Goals Localization

The United Nations General Assembly concluded the Millennium Summit with the adoption of the Millennium Declaration, renewing the global commitment to peace and human rights, setting specific goals and targets towards reducing poverty, and the worst forms of human deprivation.

As the goals are holistic and interrelated, the need to work together at the national, regional and local levels is very important. Meeting the requirement for the MDGs will entail collaborative efforts of the major stake holders - the national and local goverment units (LGUs) as well as the private sector for interventions geared toward maintreaming the MDGs in the local development agenda.

 

 

 

Millennium Project Report
    
   


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Millennium Project Report to the UN Secretary General
Investing in Development
A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals

The UN Millennium Project has been a unique undertaking. Its 10 task forces. Secretariat and broad array of participants from academia, goverments, UN agencies, international financial institutions, nongovermental organizations, donor agencies, and the private sector created a worldwide network of development practitioners and experts accross an enormous range of countries, disciplines, and organizations.










 

Implementing the UN Learning Strategy on HIV/AIDS
    
   


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Implementing the UN Learning Strategy on HIV/AIDS
Ten Case Studies

In April 2004, the Commitment of Co-sponsoring Organizations of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) approved a Learning Strategy to help UN system staff develop competence on HIV and AIDS. The goals of the Learning Strategy are:

 * to develop the knowledge and competence of the UN and its staff so that they are able to best support natinal response to HIV and AIDS; and

 * to ensure that all UN staff members are able to make informed decisions to protect themselves from HIV and, if they are infected or affected by HIV, to ensure that they know where to turn for the best posibble care and treatment. This includes ensuring that staff fully understand the UN's HIV and AIDS workplace policies and how they are implemented.

To support UN Country Teams in implementing the Learning Strategy, learning facilitators were selected at country level. The learning facilitators are expected to ensure - along with the country teams - that the standards of the Learning Strategy are realized. This report is comprised of UN HIV/AIDS Learning Strategy case studies from ten countries, representing each country's unique experience in implementing the strategy.
    


 

Business and the MDGs
   
   
Business and the Millennium Development Goals
A Framework for Action

This briefing provides a frame work for action on how companies and business coalitions can work with the UN system, goverments, and civil society organizations to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals, aimed at making globalisation a more positive force for more of the world's people.

All companies and business associations can play a role, from small and medium enterprises to large national and multinational companies and from local chambers of commerce to international business organizations. Their impacts and contribution may vary in scale and scope, but the following Framework for Action has relevance to all of them, as well as to people in the development community with an interest with working with the private sector. It aims to provide a basic overview with some illustrative examples, rather than analysis, and will hopefully generate ideas for practical action.

The report answers three key questions:
1. What are the Millennium Development Goals?
2. Why are they important to business?
3. How can business contribute to their achievement?

 

A Journey of Bold Ambition
   
   
A Journey of Bold Ambition
The Philippine Launch of the Millennium Project Report
Investing in Development- A Practical Way of Achieving the
Millennium Development Goals

UN Resident Coordinator Deborah Landey described the Millennium Project Report entitled Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals as a bluerpint for realizing the MDGs by the year 2015. Landey linked it to a roadmap, which not only visits the destination but provides a means on how to get there. Philippine efforts to fulfill the MDG targets are currently being implemented.

For this part, NEDA Director-General Romulo Neri expressed optimism that the Philippines can attain its MDG targets. He said that gross domestic product (GDP) has accelerated to 6.1% in 2004 from 4.07% in 2003, as well as per capita GDP growth of 3.7% in 2004 from 2.3% in 2003.

Neri also cited that President's six-point pledge for the poor and incorporated into the next Medium-Term Philippines Development Program (MTPDP 2004-2006). He added that the targets contained therein were also based on MDGs.

 


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