Progress in reaching Millennium Development Goals
Vietnam has achieved three important Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
on poverty elimination, primary education universalisation, and
promoting gender equality, according to a draft MDG Report 2013.
Vietnam has achieved three important Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
on poverty elimination, primary education universalisation, and
promoting gender equality, according to a draft MDG Report 2013.
The report was released at a consultation workshop on a draft MDG Report 2013 which was held by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on September 17 in Hanoi.
The document reviews the progress of MDGs implementation of Vietnam until 2013 as well as highlights Vietnam’s achievements.
In addition to MDGs on poverty, education and gender equality, Vietnam is likely to reach MDGs on reducing child mortality and improving maternal health by 2015.
The country has also made significant advances in implementing other MDGs, including prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other serious diseases.
The report also points out the challenges that Vietnam has to face in the coming years such as the widening gap between rich and poor among the regions and population groups, along with climate change issue.
The report shows the Vietnamese Government’s strong commitment to monitoring, reporting and implementing the MDGs as the country flexibly integrates MDGs into the Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011 – 2020 period, particularly for 2011 – 2015.
The MDGs, established in 2000, consist of a set of heuristics for education, poverty, health and other areas. The hope is that participating nations will achieve the goals by 2015.
Of all the MDGs, Vietnam has made the most impressive progress on MDG 1 on poverty reduction. From 58.1 percent in 1993, the country's poverty rate decreased to 14.5 percent1 in 2008, a reduction of 75 percent. The food poverty rate reduced by more than two-thirds, from 24.9 percent in 1993 to 6.9 percent in 2008.
Poverty has been alleviated among all demographic groups, in urban and rural areas, and across geographical regions. Progress in reducing malnutrition has also been significant, falling from 41 percent to 11.7 percent in 2011.-VNA
The report was released at a consultation workshop on a draft MDG Report 2013 which was held by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on September 17 in Hanoi.
The document reviews the progress of MDGs implementation of Vietnam until 2013 as well as highlights Vietnam’s achievements.
In addition to MDGs on poverty, education and gender equality, Vietnam is likely to reach MDGs on reducing child mortality and improving maternal health by 2015.
The country has also made significant advances in implementing other MDGs, including prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other serious diseases.
The report also points out the challenges that Vietnam has to face in the coming years such as the widening gap between rich and poor among the regions and population groups, along with climate change issue.
The report shows the Vietnamese Government’s strong commitment to monitoring, reporting and implementing the MDGs as the country flexibly integrates MDGs into the Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011 – 2020 period, particularly for 2011 – 2015.
The MDGs, established in 2000, consist of a set of heuristics for education, poverty, health and other areas. The hope is that participating nations will achieve the goals by 2015.
Of all the MDGs, Vietnam has made the most impressive progress on MDG 1 on poverty reduction. From 58.1 percent in 1993, the country's poverty rate decreased to 14.5 percent1 in 2008, a reduction of 75 percent. The food poverty rate reduced by more than two-thirds, from 24.9 percent in 1993 to 6.9 percent in 2008.
Poverty has been alleviated among all demographic groups, in urban and rural areas, and across geographical regions. Progress in reducing malnutrition has also been significant, falling from 41 percent to 11.7 percent in 2011.-VNA
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