Millennium Development Goals

enrolments and health checks in the areas where CCT’s are concentrated. This has all contributed to the president for the Centre of Global Development, Nancy Birdsall to claim that CCT programmes are ‘as close as you can get to a magic bullet for development’ ().…

Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the goals that created by the United Nation (UN) in order to develop the member states by achieving all of those goals. There are a lot of countries in the world that still have many challenges and problems that prevent them from becoming the developed countries. The newest sustainable development goals were released by UN in September 2015. The newest version of Sustainable Development goals consists of 17 goals which were…

Robert Deignan: A Call Center Company Pioneer Robert Deignan is a Co-Founder and CEO of Advanced Technical Support Digital Services LLC (ATS). The company was previously known as inbound Call Experts (ICE). The company was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. ATS is a call center which offers technical support to customers via telephone and screen sharing technology. The company is a provider which has the capability to meet all the digital support needs of a company…

The first Goal (Goal 1) of the seventeen (17) Sustainable Development Goals spearheaded by the United Nations is to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere.” Several targets were set in order to achieve this particular goal and the timeline was set to 2030. These targets or actions include: eradication of extreme poverty everywhere; reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty; Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and…

realms of first world nations in 2041, riding on the fast turning wheels of peace, democracy, development and progress. There is little doubt the Vision is highly ambitious but it is also entirely feasible. In fact, with sound macroeconomic fundamentals, exemplary achievements on most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and as one of the potential contenders to achieve Sustainable Development Goals within deadline, one might even argue the country is ahead of the curve to becoming a…

One of the UK’s international development programmes for countries like Kenya is to tackle extreme poverty sustainably. High levels of corruption and impunity by our leaders has constrained Kenya’s potential to develop rapidly and bridge the existing economic gap. In 2014, for instance, Transparency International ranked Kenya at number 145 out of 175 on the Corruption Perception Index. The main areas that need urgent reviewing to steer the economy of my country in the right direction are proper…

idea was started in January 1950 as Australia with the other six Commonwealth nations, which were Canada, Sri Lanka (was Ceylon at the time), India, New Zealand, Pakistan and the United Kingdom initiated The Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development [The Colombo Plan] which proposed to help the low income members of the British Commonwealth in the region (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka known as Ceylon at the time) (Oakman, 2004, 2010). The background of Colombo Plan as part of the…

At its simplest, development is defined as a process resulting in economic growth, however this widely believed definition is a misconception and needs to include additional criteria (Hodder 2000). Development is multidimensional therefore encompasses political, technological, social and economic change, thus a more suitable definition is; an economic, social, and political process creating a sustained and significant rise in the perceived standard of living (Hodder 2000). With intention to…

Process: The interventions I wanted to concentrate on with Mr. Charlie would be implementing goals, working with him on the avoided situations, and working with him on his negative thoughts. The first intervention of identifying goals with Mr. Charlie, him and I were able to collaboratively identify these goals. By identifying these goals with Mr. Charles, I then was able to help him prioritize the goals. This, “process involves determining the most central issues that cause concern and…

about the goals I wanted to set for myself. How can I best use this class and this project for personal growth? One, how can I best set myself up for success. Two in setting my goals, not to create too lofty of a goal that I will fail or produce additional stress in trying to reach the tartget. Lastly, how can I best incorporate the personal goals I set in Milestone Two. In Milestone two, I identified the three goals I sought to set for myself. Also, wanting these stress relieving goals to…