Lekwa Local Municipality 2013/14 - Co-operative Governance and ...

“To be the leading, people centered municipality excelling in economic growth, development and governance”Linked to the five over-arching objectives, the MTSF has outlined ten priority areas that are intended to giveeffect to these strategic objectives. Within this framework the overall objective is to develop and implement acomprehensive development strategy that will meet the development needs of all South Africans. The MTSFalso commits government and its development partners to a programme of gender equality, in seeking toensure that the 'conditions have been created for the full participation of women in all critical areas of humanEndeavour'.Domesticating the MDGs: The report has to be read in the context of these developments and thus additionalindices and indicators have been included to elicit development endeavours the government committed to;thus the report articulates the extent to which the South African government through its priorities has ownedthe MDG agenda and through clear policies complied with the MDG imperatives.2.5 Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s)The Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to theworld’s main development challenges. The MDG’s are drawn from the actions and targets contained in theMillennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 Nations and signed by 147 heads of state and governmentsduring the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000.The MDG’s are an agreed set of goals that can be achieved if all actors work together and do their part. Poorcountries have pledged to govern better, and invest in their people through health care and education. Richcountries have pledged to support them, through Aid, debt relief, and fairer trade.The 8 MDG’s breakdown into 18 quantifiable targets that are measured by 48 indicatorsObjective 1: Develop a global partnership for development‣ Address the special needs of the least developed countries‣ Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system(includes commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction- both internationallyand nationally)‣ Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing states‣ Deal comprehensively with debt problems of developing countries through national and internationalmeasures in order to make debts sustainable in the long runObjective 2: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger‣ Reduce poverty by half between 1990 and 2015, proportion of people whose income is less than US$1a day‣ Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hungerObjective 3: Achieve universal primary education26 | P a g e - D r a f t i n t e g r a t e d D e v e l o p m e n t P l a n 2 0 1 3 / 2 0 1 4