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ACCLERETING PROGRESS TOWARDS THEMDGs IN AFRICA

Selim JahanDirector, Poverty Division

United Nations Development Programme

Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceWashington D.C. 1 April 2010

CONTENTS

Part 1: Trends in MDG progress – Africa

Part 3: Key challenges and bottlenecks

Part 4: Successful proven interventions

Part 2: Lessons learned from the MDG trends

Part 5: Strategic role of the UN

MDG TRENDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Extreme poverty declined from 57 to 51 percent

Net primary enrolment rose from 58 to 74 percent

Child mortality fell from 183 to 145 per 1,000 live-births

Proportion of working poor rose from 58 to 64 percent

More than three-fourths in vulnerable employment

Proportion of undernourished people up by 1 percent

Half of 72 million out-of-school children in SSA

Maternal mortality more than 800 per 100,000 live-birth

Two-thirds of HIV/AIDS infection in Sub-Saharan Africa

MDG TRENDS IN AFRICA - DISAGGREGATION

While between 1990-2005, child mortality in West Africa fell from 225 to180, it increased from less than 200 to 220 per 1,000 people in Central Africa

Incidence of HIV/AIDS in East Africa 3 per cent compared to nearly 15 per cent in Southern Africa

TB incidence rate per 100,000 people rose from about200 to 550 in Southern Africa, while the comparablefigures for North Africa are unchanged at 100

The antiretroviral therapy coverage in Central Africa20 per cent, in Southern Africa 30 per cent

Between 2000-2006, cellular subscription rose from 7to 38 per cent in Southern Africa and from 1 to about 14 per cent in Central Africa

MDG TRENDS – LESSONS LEARNED

Impressive MDG progress possible on severalfronts

Progress uneven across regions and sub-regions, within countries and among socio-economicgroups

MDG progress reversed in many countries anddecelerated in others because of multiple crises

Vulnerability of countries and people increasedwith pockets of deprivations

MDGs are still achievable

SUCCESSFUL PROVEN INTERVENTIONS

A Comprehensive Package Approach (CPA) for education - Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania

Midday school meal programme – Ghana, Guyana,India

Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (CIMCI) – Eritrea and Malawi

Incentive Package for Girls’ education (femaleteachers/scholarship/uniforms/separatetoilets) – Bangladesh, Gambia, Nepal

Microfinance for HIV/AIDS – South Africa

KEY CHALLENGES AND BOTTLENECKS

MDG shortfalls, disparities and time constraint – scalability and replication of proven interventions

Structural constraints - lack of sustainedeconomic growth and human development, trade

Shocks and vulnerabilities – multiple crises, natural disasters, HIV/AIDS, climate change

Three critical gaps – policy and priority gap, capacity and institution gap and resource gap

Uncertainty and unpredictability – externalassistance, development finance

STRATEGIC ROLE OF THE UN

MDG acceleration – MDG Acceleration Framework(MAF) : diagnostic, scaling-up proven interventions,local-level initiative, protecting public expenditures

Support for overcoming structural constraints – national : economic growth, human development, international : trade, innovation, technology

Addressing gaps – alignment, capacity, institutions

Support to resources gaps – Gleneagles scenario, ODA commitment, MDG carbon facility

Implementing the MDG Africa Steering and Working Group recommendations, formulating regional approaches

THANK YOU

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME