Report - Social Watch Philippines

MDG chances: stability
and vulnerability
� By ISAGANI R. SERRANO
Introduction
This paper describes the context within which the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) will be played out between 2010 and 2015. This period falls within the term
of the new regime.
Within that short span of time the government of President Benigno S. (Noynoy) Aquino
(P-Noy) is expected to keep the MDG promises, building on (or perhaps, reconstructing from)
the legacy of the previous regime.
The tasks at hand are simple enough: bring down poverty and hunger levels to half of that
in 1990; make sure all children are in school and stay to complete elementary education; achieve
gender parity in education at all levels and promote women empowerment; reduce infant, child
and maternal mortality; control old and new diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and,
assure all these with adequate fi nancing, policy and institutional support, nationwide consensus
and broad citizen participation.
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