Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Nepal

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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger Poverty - Target likely to be achieved Hunger - Target unlikely to be achieved Achieve Universal Primary Education Possible to achieve if changes are made
Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Targets possible to achieve if changes are made Reduce Child Mortality Targets likely to be achieved
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
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 8 / Global Partnership for Development

Poverty - Target likely to be achieved

MDG 8 targets trade, stepping up aid, debt relief, ensuring decent work for all, and the mobilisation of international organisations and the private sector to find global solutions to common problems and to apply them locally.

Nepal relies heavily on official development assistance (ODA) to implement its development programmes and to reach the MDGs. In the past years, the Government and the donor community have engaged in a regular dialogue through the Nepal Development Forum mechanism, and ODA to Nepal has steadily increased from about USD 430 million in 2004 to about USD 580 million in 2007, and is expected to rise further in 2008.

On Aid Effectiveness and harmonisation, the OECD DAC survey on Nepal published in March 2008 made recommendations on ways to align donor and government programmes more effectively. In September 2008 the Ministry of Finance participated in the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, contributing to the global review of the harmonisation efforts. In line with the aid effectiveness agenda, the UN system in Nepal is taking intensified steps towards harmonising its programmes with government systems - support to the sector-wide approaches on education and health being strong cases in point - and to further internal coordination and joint programming to lessen transaction costs of the Government.

On enhancing trade, Nepal passed an important milestone when it joined the World Trade Organisation in 2004. Nepal, like many other LDCs, remains vulnerable to global economic volatility due to its highly concentrated export trade. In line with WTO requirements, Nepal needs to put in place a coherent trade integration strategy to address constraints in the business environment, institutional inefficiencies, supply, demand and capacity issues.

MDG 8 also calls for developing decent and productive work for youth. To create jobs for the 300,000 young people entering the job market each year, partnerships with the private sector is vital to fight youth unemployment. Nepal also needs to secure bilateral agreements to ensure better protection for the many youth working abroad.

To deliver improved outcomes against health related MDGs, Nepal is a signatory of the International Health Partnership Plus, for which the first draft of the National Compact has been prepared. With the involvement of supporting partners, the compact seeks the intensification of free health care and motivating health workforce to scale up health services to ensure that health services reaches the unreached.

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[04-03-2010] - News

Target of reducing poverty likely to be met ��.

According to the draft report, Nepal is likely to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 of reducing poverty to 21 percent of the population by 2015 as it had already brought down the figure to 25 percent by 2008, with a decline rate of 1 percent annually. In 2005, the population below the poverty line was 31 percent.

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