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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
MDG Performance How vulnerability Strategies for reducing
affects achieving MDGs vulnerability to support
achieving MDGs
1. Eradicate extreme • Population living below the • The impairment of • Ensure sound and equitable
poverty and hunger poverty line reduced from ecosystem functions inevitably management of natural
56% to 31% between 1992 leads to a narrowing of resources.
and 2006 livelihood choices especially
for poor people • Robust food security
• Between 1995 and 2006, programmes especially in
the proportion of underweight • Disasters like floods affect northern Uganda
children reduced from 25.5% food security and general
to 20.4% human well being like it was • Building the capacity of
with north eastern parts of the disaster preparedness and
• Food calorific intake country refugees department to deal
deficiency increased from with the challenges of disaster
58.7% in 1999 to 68.5% in
2006
2. Achieve Universal • The introduction of UPE • Dwindling forests and • Restore and maintain
Primary Education in 1997 led to a substantial woodland cover leads to ecosystem health and
increase by 132% in gross scarcity of wood. This means services
enrollment from the pre-UPE children have to spend
total of 3.1 million in 1996 to more time looking for fuel, • Promote renewable energy
7.2 million children in 2006 which can reduce time and technologies that are energy
concentration at school efficient
3. Promote gender equality • The affirmative action policy • Gender issues like • Ensure equitable access to
and empower women led to an increase in the conflicts in land resources natural resources by all
proportion of females to the management, unequal
total student enrollment by access to land and resources • Develop policies that
31% in 1993/94 to 40% in disempower women alleviate violence and sexual
2002 and up to 42% in 2004 abuse against women
• Violence and sexual abuse
• In the current Parliament, against women especially
89 of the 310 members are in the northern war region
women, representing 28.7% makes women vulnerable to
of the legislative body. This is diseases, etc.
an improvement from the 18%
registered in 1995
4. Reduce child mortality • Over the period 1995-2000, • Indoor air pollution affects • Improve access to efficient
maternal mortality stagnated women’s health and can energy technologies
at about 505 deaths per make women less fit for
100,000 live births childbirth and at greater risk of • Improve air quality and limit
complications exposure to toxic chemicals
• To meet the MDG target,
Uganda will need to reduce its
mortality rate from 505 to 131
deaths per 100,000 live births
by 2015
5. Improve maternal health • Over the period 1995-2000, • Indoor air pollution affects • Improve access to efficient
maternal mortality stagnated women’s health and can energy technologies
at about 505 deaths per make women less fit for
100,000 live births childbirth and at greater risk of • Improve air quality and limit
complications exposure to toxic chemicals
• To meet the MDG target,
Uganda will need to reduce its
mortality rate from 505 to 131
deaths per 100,000 live births
by 2015
158
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