| SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - TOWARDS GLOBAL SHARING
One World One Hope - The Millennium Development Goals is Common Vision and Global Commitments
Today the world is consumed by an urgent series of crises: energy,
food, climate, and finance that not only threaten the realization of
the MDGs and the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of
people, in the North and the South, but also the stability of the
world’s economies. We need to take an concrete action with the
solidarity of all international communities, in order to perceived
crisis in development: the need to examine the shortfall in resources
required for countries to achieve international agreed development
goals including Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to cut the
number of people living in extreme poverty by half by 2015, improve
social conditions such as health and education, employment, raise
living standards, support gender equality and women’s empowerment
and protect the environment.
The Sustainable Development can only be achieved through long-term
investments in economic, human and environmental capital and the
solidarity of international communities. At present, the female half
of the world’s human capital is undervalued and under utilised the
world over. As we are working with group of women focusing on
gender quality and our experience we learned that, women – and their
potential contributions to economic advances, social progress and
environmental protection – have been marginalised. Better use of the
world’s female population could increase economic growth, reduce
poverty, enhance societal well-being, and help ensure sustainable
development in our world we share. Closing the gender gap depends on
enlightened government policies which take gender dimensions into
account.
The Environmental degradation stepped forward as a major issue,
nationally, regionally, and globally, although many of its key issues
remain unresolved. Finally, of all the changes, surely the most
sweeping have been in the field of discovery and knowledge,
especially in the health area where the impact on life expectancies
around the world have been enormous, but also in other areas of
science as well. Meanwhile, attention has increasingly focused on the
challenges developing countries face in improving the quality of life
for their populations, with a number of programs specifically related
to helping those countries meet their obligations under international
agreements and also to address issues with major international spill-
over effects to achieve our common objectives.
These challenges are increasingly recognised today, as reflected in a
variety of international fora. The Millennium Summit held in New
York in 2000, the International Conference on Financing for
Development held in Monterrey in March 2002 and the World Summit on
Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in August 2002 built on
the growing dissatisfaction with the status quo and the increasing
desire for collaboration and change, especially in the pursuit of
tangible progress on Development Goals, such as the MDGs. The most
recent Conference on World Financial and Economic Crisis held in
United Nations, New York June 2009 “urged concerted action to
tackle other crises hovering in the background, such as global
warming, food insecurity, fuel and clean water shortages, and
humanitarian emergencies”, in this context the WFWO and its
financial partners and the resource mobilisations task force
established by the WFWO's Management, takes an concrete initiative to
support the Sustainability development programs in developing
countries, in close co-operation with local authorities and local
communities, NGOs, CBO in order to contribute to the implementation
of the global commitments.
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