un mdg workshop: the final push – media´s role goal 1: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 28...
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UN MDG Workshop:
The Final Push – Media´s Role
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty
and hunger
28 May, 2012
Bangkok, Thailand1
Content
• Where are we?• Where do we need to be?• What are the challenges?• What can we do/media do?
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Where are we? Where do we need to be?
• Reduced the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day from 50 to 22 per cent
• Reduced the proportion of under-5 children underweight from 35 to 24 per cent, but it is still slow
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Where are we? Where do we need to be?
4Source: Staff calculations based on the United Nations MDG database.
Progress in reducing the proportion of under-5 children underweight • Reducing child
malnutrition:– 14 countries
likely to miss target (slow, no progress or regressing)
– Off-track countries will meet target if progress accelerated by less than 2 percentage points per year
Where are we? Where do we need to be?
• Large disparities at the country level
5Source: Staff calculations based on data from DHS
Under-5 children underweight
• Because of the region’s large population it is also home to a high proportion of the developing world’s deprived people
• Address the social determinants– Empowerment of women
• Provide social protection• Create jobs• Raise agricultural production• Implement feeding programs
What are the challenges?
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What can we do/media do?
• Role of media, as a key development actor• Create channels to keep all stakeholders
meaningfully engaged in the development process• Create mechanisms through which the voice of
most marginalized are being heard
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