Mdgs: The UN Millennium Development Goals

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) are the world’s sets of time bound goals which was born out of the UN Millennium Declaration during the Millennium Summit in September 2000 with a deadline set for 2015. MDGs with eight goals, had progress well in achieving many of it’s goals. It has also brought significant change in many of the developing nation. However, even with its significant achievement and progress, MDGs still seem to lack in many areas. First of all, MDGs seem to lack the very ground of its own development process. Secondly, MDGs seem to lack its ground in analysis and justification for the chosen goals. Thirdly, MDGs seem to have brought uneven achievements in their field of goals. Lastly, the very reason of MDGs are lacking

It seems very obvious that ‘the triad’ had very huge hand in developing those goals according to their observation within their nation. it also seem that in the official meeting within the members of MDGs had a conflict of interest as there is differences in the point of views of ‘the triad’ and of the south (Amin, 2006). It is said that a draft of MDGs was prepared in the backroom of some obscure agency instead of forming a genuine committee for the purposed idea. Thus it point out the very ground of weakness within the organization. MDGs goals had their target on eradicating hunger and poverty, tackle sickness and combat environmental degradation by 2015. Those goals seem to be made for developing countries by developed countries or the triads. Not only that, as MDGs are donor-led agenda, developing countries are made to depend on donation from developing countries and focusing less on self-sustainable approaches. Thus they see and judge developing or poor countries as a greater challenge in achieving their goals, not considering their action in it. As Eyben (2010) had stated well about the weakness and consequences in the donor-reception relations in her work that it is ultimately the reception who suffers the most. On the very first ground, the procedure and process in the development of MDGs seem to be lacking behind.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has eight-quantified goals that are targeted to be met by 2015. It is very true that each and every goal stated in MDGs are commendable but very vaguely defined. It is no wondered that Byrne, Nicholson and Salem (2011) stated that “MDGs remain hegemonic (one-size-fit-all)”. The following are the eight goals and their