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Middle East / North Africa and the Millennium Development Goals sites we found only 143 hits for the search terms “Millennium Goals”, “MDGs”, or “Millennium Declaration” (for Egypt 77 hits in a total of 197,000 pages; for Jordan 20 hits in 68,000 pages, for Tunisia three hits in 37,000 pages; and for Morocco 43 hits in 106,000 pages). 57 of these hits were doubles and 14 hits referred to websites pages that no longer exist. The remaining 72 pages (including 37 from Egypt, eight from Jordan, three from Tunisia, and 24 from Morocco) only mention the MDGs or the Millennium Declaration in passing. Only 22 such pages deal mainly with the Millennium process (21 from Egypt, one from Jordan, and not one single page from Tunisia or Morocco), and only 13 of these pages (all of them from Egypt) deal with national development. 4 4 The Google search was conducted on 12 Dec. 2004. The search term used for Egypt and Jordan was (MDGs OR millennium goals OR millennium declaration site:.gov.eg/jo). For Morocco and Tunisia the corresponding term was (OMD OR ODM OR objective millénaire OR déclaration millénaire site:.gov.ma/tn). The search under Egypt turned up 147 hits; 29 were doubles, 11 pages were no longer available, and 70 pages had no references to the MDGs, i.e. the terms sought, (millennium) and (goals), simply happened to be on the same site. 16 of the pages found only mentioned the MDGs in passing. Five appeared in connection with the World Summit on the Information Society 2002, two were associated with the Earth Summit 2002 in Johannesburg, and one had to do with the Millennium Summit itself. Only 13 sites dealt with the Millennium process in Egypt itself. Nine of these sites dealt with the 4th annual conference of the Egyptian National Council for Women on the topic “Women and the Millennium Development Goals,” which took place in Cairo from 13-16 March 2004. One hit was a ppt-presentation on environmentally sustainable development (MDG7). Two sites contained speeches by Suzanne Mubarak, the wife of the president, and one contained a press release by the Egyptian foreign ministry. The search on Jordan turned up 29 hits, ten of which were doubles, two were no longer available, and nine had no relevance to the MDGs (see above). Seven sites made passing reference to the MDGs. Two of them dealt with water-management issues, four were print versions of speeches held by the king on development in the Arab world, and one contained a speech held by Prince Talal at the World Summit on the Information Society 2003. Finally, one hit, from the Jordan Department of Statistics, referred to a working group concerned with efforts to standardize statistics on development indicators (including the MDG indicators). The search on Tunisia turned up nine hits. Two of these pages mentioned, in passing, the Millennium Declaration and one referred to the MDGs. None of the others made any reference to the MDGs (see above). Finally, the search on Morocco turned up 124 hits, 18 of them doubles. One page was no longer available and 81 had no relevance to the MDGs. The remaining 24 pages mentioned the MDGs only in passing. Eight of them were print versions of speeches German Development Institute 107
108 Markus Loewe Many observers confirm the impression that the population of the MENA countries is largely unfamiliar with the MDGs. In contrast to other development-related issues such as e.g. the EUROMED free-trade area, the MDGs play as good as no role in the public debate. 5 The Palestinian Authority is even reported to have openly expressed its disinterest in a debate over the MDGs. Even scientists and NGOs actively concerned with MDGrelevant issues (such as health, social welfare, microcredits, or women’s empowerment) have yet to hear anything about the MDGs. The same goes even for many ministerial officials and – above all – politicians at the municipal or province level (GTZ/ KfW 2005c, 2). While leading government officials are of course familiar with the MDGs, they are for the most part only superficially informed about the background and details of the MDG agenda. Indeed, in these circles more time is devoted to discussions on the Arab Human Development Reports. 6 NGOs in the MENA region mainly blame the information policy of the region’s governments for this state of affairs (ANND 2004; Farag 2004; WFUNA / NSI 2004, 10 ff.). They also complain about being excluded just about everywhere from participation in preparing national MDG reports. In some countries they learned only from third-party about the findings of these reports. In fact, though, UNDP (2003) recommends that made by the king, six speeches by the foreign minister, four speeches by the health minister, three were international declarations, and two were foreign ministry press releases. 5 An additional, second Google search was conducted on this question. The search looked into all Jordan and Egyptian websites pages for the exact combination ‘millennium development goals’: (“millennium development goals” site:.eg) and (“millennium development goals” site:.jo). For Jordan the search found 31 sites – without any doubles – that could still be accessed. Thirty of them mentioned the MDGs only in passing. One site dealt explicitly with the MDGs. But these combinations did turn up 93 hits on Egyptian websites – without any doubles on one site. Although 61 of these pages dealt with the MDGs only in passing, 28 of them were centrally located and dealt with them relatively intensively. 13 of these pages were in the government domain, 8 on the UNDP website, three with other UN organizations, six with Al-Ahram Weekly, and two with the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey. 6 Various websites refer to this problem, such as e.g. http://www.ckc-undp.org.jo/ newsletter/newsletter.htm (12 Dec. 2004), which has also been confirmed by representatives of German development cooperation (see the list of interview partners in the Annex). In talks with various scientists from the region, the author also found that many of his interviewees were not aware of the MDGs. German Development Institute
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