Maternal Health Care Remain Challenge as Post-2015 MDGs come to Close Washington D.C. Thursday, August 7, 2014 (MFA Press/Jane Kariuki) – The chapter that has been the Millennium Development Agenda (MDGs) since 2000 has comes to a close. A new one to be unveiled in September 2014 will run for the next 15 years. The MDGs were designed for developing countries and have served as the framework for global action and co-operation on development matters since 2000; addressing the challenges of poverty, disease, hunger and inequalities forms the basis and framework of the new goals. Amb. Kamau Macharia, Kenya’s Permanent Representation to the United Nations while briefing Cabinet Secretaries, Members of Parliament, Senators and Governors who accompanied President Uhuru Kenyatta to the US-Africa Leaders Summit, explained the need to ensure government structures are working and moving in the right direction to achieve global desired goals. “Africa need strengthened means of implementation and revitalized global partnerships if they are to achieve sustainable development and eradicate poverty. “We need to target a growth rate of between 7-9 per cent if we are to transform the society and if we are to get out of poverty. We need to have 40 years of sustained development,” said Amb. Macharia. The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will be universal will galvanize international development cooperation and action towards sustainable economic growth, and employment creation, poverty eradication, protection of environment and social inclusion. The General Assembly on SDGs adopted a report containing a set of 17 goals and 169 targets for all countries. The goals present all countries with an opportunity to pursue transformative sustainable development agenda. Both developed and developing countries will have to undertake domestic and international commitments across the goals bases on their common but different responsibilities, national capabilities, priorities and circumstances. The unfinished business of the MDGs such as ending the epidemics of HIV/Aids, Malaria and other neglected tropical diseases, ending hunger and eliminating gender inequality remain critical in the new agenda and will be integrated in the post 2015 development agenda as the successor goals to the MDGs. To stimulate socio-economic welfare and sustainability of the ecosystems, the international community will need to invest in key sectors of economic; energy, infrastructure, industrialization and innovation. Addressing climate change, and sustainable consumption and production will be important in ensuring resilience especially of the poor. The post 2015 development agenda will elaborate on indicators of the SDGs, refine the means of implementation and technology facilitation mechanism as well as set accountability and monitoring mechanism for the entire framework. The United Nation Secretary General will present a synthesis report containing the SDGs, their possible financing mechanisms and options for technology facilitation mechanisms as the basis for discussions of the post 2015 development agenda.
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