Six years to go before 2015 when our country pledged to end poverty in the UN assembly in 2000, where members of the UN pledged to meet the Millennium Development Goals. These goals are: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development.
Internartional UN agencies such as International Labour Organization, World Health Organization, United Nations Development Fund for Women, etc. have helped in assessing developments of each UN country member.
Reports have shown that Philippines developments in these MDGs are still lagging in three areas which are (1) lagging in the achievement of universal primary education, with about 30 percent of school-age children unable to finish their elementary education; (2) in the struggle to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS; and (3) in the improvement of maternal and child mortality.
In an effort to attain all MDGs, the UN Fund for Population (UNFPA) is now working to support local governments in the promotion of maternal and child health, including the provision of family planning services.
