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Short Narratives - Goal by Goal
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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and HungerPoverty - Target likely to be achieved
Hunger - Target unlikely to be achieved
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Possible to achieve if changes are made
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Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Targets possible to achieve if changes are made
Reduce Child Mortality
Targets likely to be achieved
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Improve Maternal Health
Improve Maternal Health Targets possible to achieve if changes are made
Combat HIV and AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases
HIV and AIDS - Target Possible to achieve if changes are made
Tuberculosis - Target likely to be achieved
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Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Environment - Target Possible to achieve if changes are made
Water and Sanitation - Target Likely to be achieved
Global Partnership for Development
Poverty - Target likely to be achieved
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Goal 7 / Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Environment - Target Possible to achieve if changes are made
After a slump in the 1990s and early 2000s, forest cover has been made relatively stable in the past years, reaching 29 percent today. Also protected areas have increased slightly through the increase in community protected areas, which benefit the environment and protect the livelihoods of communities. However, factors like internal migration, uncontrolled encroachment of forest for habitation and agriculture, and high dependency on forest resources for livelihood, threatens to slow down further development and destroy acquired improvements. Government institutions' capacity to manage forests on a sustainable basis should be enhanced and the Government should develop a system to track the forest cover as well as its quality.
Rural people's access to modern sources of energy has improved over recent years through the expansion of grid-based and off-grid decentralized options, including both electricity and non-electricity technologies.
Water and Sanitation - Target Likely to be achieved
Nepal has 225 billion metric cube of water available annually. However, an estimated 15 billion metric cube (6.66 per cent) from medium and small rivers has so far been utilized for economic and social purposes, mainly for drinking water, irrigation and hydropower generation. The large river systems have been virtually left untapped.
Water supply systems that are functioning poorly need urgent rehabilitation and maintenance to ensure a sustained supply of water.
Sanitation coverage is lagging far behind water supply coverage. Stand alone sanitation programme has been launched to minimize the gap. The share of people living without water and sanitation has more than halved since the nineties. Already during the 2000s, access to clean water has risen by sixteen percentage points from 73 to 89 percent. Rural sanitation coverage remains a main concern in this sector.
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