United Nations (UN) 10.24.

1945
• intergovernmental organization tasked with
maintaining international peace and security,
developing friendly relations among nations,
achieving international cooperation

• UNGA, UNESCO, WHO, WB

• 50 & 1 nations

• Headquarters: New York, USA

 Millennium Development Goals
(1) Eradication of Extreme Poverty and hunger

• Poverty – lack of the means to meet basic needs (food,

shelter, clothing, etc.)

• 21%, poverty (PHL)

• 10.5%, hunger level (PHL)

• Global Food Security - delivering sufficient food to the entire

world population
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(1) Eradication of Extreme Poverty and hunger
• Poverty threshold – the minimum income required to meet
the basic food and nonfood needs such as clothing, fuel,
light and water, housing, transportation and
communication, health and education expenses, and
personal care and effects (Php 10, 481.00/month)

• Extreme Poverty - a world problem characterized by severe

deprivation of basic human needs including food, safe
drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter,
education, and information (1.9 USD/day) (NGA 86M)
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(2) Achieving Universal Primary Education

• Issues (illiteracy, inequality, conflicts, etc)

• “Education is peace-building by another name” (Kofi Annan)

• Literacy (PHL 96.30% 108,116,615)

• Republic Act 10533

• Republic Act 10931

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(3) Promoting Gender Equality and Women

Empowerment

• GAD – devt perspective & process that is

participatory and empowering. Equitable, free from
violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of
determination, and actualization of human
potentials (PHL)

• Republic Act 9710

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(4) Reducing Child Mortality

• 28.1 deaths/1000 live births (PHL, 2017)

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(5) Improving Maternal Health

• Health Centers, BH

• No woman should die giving life

• 11 FIL mothers die/day

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(6) Combating Diseases (HIV/AIDS, Malaria,

Etc.)

• Palawan, Sulu, OcM, S. Kudarat (Apr 2019)

Malaria affected

• HIV/AIDS: 36/day (PHL) Republic Act 11166

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(7) Ensuring Sustainability

• Sustainability- the process of maintaining change in a

balanced fashion, in which the exploitation of resources, the
direction of investments, the orientation of technological
development and institutional change are all in harmony and
enhance both current and future potential to meet human
needs and aspirations
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(7) Ensuring Sustainability

• Sustainable development - the development that meets

the needs of present, without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs

• Issue: Climate change - a change in the statistical

distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for
an extended period of time (causes: …)
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(8) Having a global Partnership for

Development

• ASEAN, EUROPEAN UNION, OPEC, NAFTA,

WB, WTO, IMF, UNESCO, WHO, etc
(treaties, agreement, )
 TASK TO DO:

expedite the same (foregoing discussions) in

your assigned continent/countries
Let’s call it a day.