Progress on MDGs: Key Trends and Concerns in Moldova (2012)
The 2012 update on Moldova's progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) shows significant but uneven advancements since 2000. Despite the recent economic crisis, progress has not drastically faltered. Challenges remain, including economic growth, inclusion, and sustainability, with notable risks such as budgetary austerity and rising food prices. Key concerns involve extreme poverty, education accessibility, and health care. Gender equality remains inconsistent, with women predominantly in low-paying jobs. Visit http://www.undp.md/mdg/moldova.shtml for more information.
Progress on MDGs: Key Trends and Concerns in Moldova (2012)
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MDG UPDATE 2012 25 October, 2012
Progress on MDG’s: key trends and concerns • Since 2000 the progress was significant but uneven; • Recent economic crisis has not undermined the progress significantly; • Key risks: global and regional economic outlook (growth/remittances); budgetary austerity vs. human development priorities; food & energy prices; climate vulnerability (agriculture) • Key concerns: new drivers of economic growth; inclusion (urban-rural divide, gender) and sustainability; lack of reliable data in certain areas
MDG progress: confusing traffic lights • MDG 1. Reduce extreme poverty and hunger • MDG 2. Achieve universal access to general compulsory education • MDG 3. Promote gender equality and empower women • MDG 4. Reduce child mortality • MDG 5. Improve maternal health • MDG 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases • MDG 7. Ensure environmental sustainability • MDG 8. Develop a global partnership for development
Poverty down, but… • Poverty has been continuously slowing (21.9% in 2010 vs. 30.2% in 2006) • Key drivers: remittances and rising incomes from agriculture (2010) • Still predominantly rural phenomenon (80%), children are hit particularly hard (24.2%) • Risk group: rural, lower educated households, with big number of children
“But’s” continued • Children from these households - lower level of gross enrollment into compulsory education – lower access to health care and higher risk of mortality - “path dependency”? • No gender discrepancies • Sustainable access to sewerage 54.6% in 2011 vs. target of 65% in 2015. • High inequality: rural up to 90% of havenot’s
Gender in focus • Progress on gender equality is uneven • Moldovan women are mostly employed in low-paying jobs and occupy lower positions in the job hierarchy • Politically under-represented (electable and executive function, central and local) • Wage gap falling but still big (74.4%): lower paid sectors, lower paid positions
HIV/AIDS and TB: uphill battle? • HIV incidence/TB trends in general population and adults aged 15-24 erratic; • Generally high (17.6 cases per 100,000 vs. target of 8; 12.89 vs 10), but particularly in Transnistria • TB treatment rate (success in treatment) is low (54% of new cases, 34% of re-treated)
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