Training Report: Millennium Development Goals in the SAARC Region

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Working Sessions sometime even before that. There is a widespread network of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Care Clinics, as well as services of trained Public Health Midwives. Although free health care was instrumental in raising health standards, a government cannot continuously offer free health care due to severe budgetary constraints and its inflationary impact. Private sector has also now vigorously entered to this health business and this also positively contributed to increase health related indicators of the nation. Overall, poor peoples’ health and nutrition related education level have also risen up with income increases. With regard to the fifth goal, ‘Improve Maternal Health’ there has been a consistent and a steep decline in the maternal mortality ratio for over five decades. Sri Lanka had achieved the maternal mortality rate of 19.7 per 100,000 live births in 2003 against the target of 10.6 per 100,000 live births to be achieved in 2015. The percentage of births attended by skilled health personnel, which is also an indicator that measures the progress of the fifth goal, has reached 98.5% against the target of 100%. Towards the sixth goal, ‘Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases’, Sri Lanka needs to pay more attention on the detection of HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Sri Lanka has been identified as a low HIV/AIDS prevalence country with a detection rate of 0.1 per cent prevalence of HIV/AIDS in age group of 15-49. However, there has been an increase in the number of cases reported during the past few years requiring renewed attention to meet the goal fully. Although the number of Malaria cases reported per year has reduced sharply from 210,039 in 2000 to just 591 in 2006, Incidence of Tuberculosis (TB) and dengue is still at an unsatisfactory level. There were 8,996 newly identified TB cases reported in 2008 compared with 8,232 in 2000. Further, the TB associated deaths of 347 were reported in 2006. Sri Lanka has to be more proactive in dengue fever eradication as it almost came to epidemic situation in some urban areas of the country by reporting many deaths. In terms of MDG seven: ‘Ensuring Environmental Sustainability’, extra collective attention is necessary. Deforestation, disruption of biological diversity and emission of carbon dioxide and other harmful gases still remain. As a result of pollution, the percentage of population that does not have access to safe sources of drinking water and safe sanitation can increase, which could exacerbate due to ignorance. Developing countries including Sri Lanka may now face new challenges in meeting MDGs, on the fallout of the current global economic crisis and other set back such as abolition of preferential trade concessions such as GSP The implications of such a set-back could be long-term in nature and could affect the efforts of achieving MDGs by those countries. Regarding the targets in MDG 8, Sri Lankan has achieved mixed results. Addressing the special needs of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) includes tariff- and quota-free access for Least Developed Countries’ exports, enhanced program of debt relief. In these areas the international community has more responsibility rather the Sri Lankan side. But some of the given concessions such as GSP (The EU's Generalized System of Preferences is a trade arrangement through which the EU provides preferential access to the EU market to Sri Lankan over 6400 exports items, in the form of reduced tariffs for their goods when entering the EU market) have stopped. In recent past, obtaining commercial loans from expensive world market sources have increased. Sri Lankan public health sector always suffer many issues related to the bad governance starting from drug and medical equipment purchases. Sri Lankan has many good achievements in the ICT field due to very many new initiatives taken by the government. Especially e-government project, ICT sector deregulation and ICT infrastructure development caused for these achievements. In 2009 Sri Lanka’s telephone density was around 85 (both fixed and mobile) and internet and e-mail density is 1.7 for 100 people in population. However, government has 147 web sites which provide various information and services to public in addition to various other services provided by the e-Lanka project under Information and Communication Technology Agency. 19
Recommendations of Working Groups Recommendations of Working Groups The training participants were divided into three working groups and were assigned specific topics to discuss the status and progress on the MDGs in the SAARC region, share best practices and give a plan of action for future to achieve the MDGs within the stipulated time. Some specific recommendations are as follows: Group-I: Policies and Strategies to Expedite Achievements of MDGs in South Asia • Employment opportunities (productive employment) • Skill development (to equip the individuals with technical know how) • Provision of funding (loans, grants, scholarships, incentives) • Utilization of production (consumption pattern, surplus in market) • Market connection (output, profit, benefits, outcomes). • Improvement in net enrollment (cash to parents, provision of commodities and other facilities like transportation, good infrastructure, specious buildings, airy class rooms, playgrounds, boundary walls specially in girls schools, water and sanitation system in schools) • Merit oriented selection criteria • Monitoring system (regularity methodology behaviour) • Incentives for teachers (pay package, encouragement on good performance) • Teacher parent counseling • Free books up to primary classes • Result oriented syllabus (to make the students practical and sensible citizen of the land) • Firm commitment, dynamic vision, optimistic approach and strong political will necessary ingredients to chalk out policies and implement them in letter and spirit to accomplish the vision of MDGs by 2015 Group-II: Poverty Reduction: Solutions to Achieve MDGs • Macro economic stability • Awareness/education/training • Appropriate resource allocation • Labour intensive technology • Revitalization of vocational training institutions • Industrializations • Creation of enabling environment for increasing the role of private sector • Market access • Improved infrastructure • Strengthening the social safety nets • Public private partnership/productive linkages for all the segments of society • Good governance, accountability by the system • Corporate farming and value addition in livestock • Balance regional development • Access to justice (to all segments of society) • Initiation of Income Generating Grants (IGG) • Microfinance Credit Guarantee Facility • Promotion of regional trade • Designing, approval and enactment of appropriate legislation • Conducive investment environment • Democratic reforms • Additional resources and technology by the developed nations 20
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