[afro-nets] Millennium development holes (2)

["George Kent" <kent@hawaii.edu>]

Millennium development holes (2)
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This commentary is very good. However, Nature missed one central point: there really is no global program of action in the Millennium Development Project to be assessed. None of the monitoring reports track the fulfillment of commitments by the global community for one simple reason. There never were any commitments to concrete programs of action at the global level. For example, there never was any global strategy that could seriously be expected to achieve the goal of halving hunger or halving wasting as defined in Millennium Development Goal 1.

The Millennium Development Project has been misleading because it has never had any real global program of action. This is not the story of a failed strategy; it is about the absence of strategy. Despite the lofty global rhetoric of the Millennium Development Project and all the summits and agreements on hunger that preceded it, malnutrition and the other MDG issues have always been treated as a collection of national issues.

Aloha, George
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