Social watch process would be the key agenda setter for the government. It will redefine the politics of knowledge, and usher in a new dynamics in the process and quality of governance. It will reclaim the process of governance to the people at various levels -national, state, and panchayat.



World Summit for Social Development
Millennium Declaration
IV World Conference on Women
A civil society Benchmark for the 5-year Review of the Millennium Declaration
MDG's Common minimum Programm, National Development Goals
   


MDG's, Common Minimum Programm, National Development Goals
 

Comparative Analysis of MDGs, NDGs and CMP
Sl. MDG Goals National Development
Goals/Targets-Tenth
Five Year Plan
CMP Goals
1

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day.Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
Reduction of poverty ratio by 5 percentage points by 2007 and by 15 percentage points.
  • Enact National Employment
    Guarantee Act
  • 100 days employment every year at minimum wages for at least one able bodied person in every rural, urban poor and lower middle class house hold.
  • Double the flow of rural credit in the next
  • Strengthen public distribution system in poorest and backward blocks of the country.Antyodaya cards for all households at risk of hunger.
  • National programmes for minor irrigation of all lands owned by Dalits and Adivasis.
       
2 Achieve universal primary education

Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.
All children in school by 2003; all children to complete 5 years of schooling by 2007.
  • Provide functional Anganwadi in every settlement and ensure full coverage for all the children.
  • To raise public spending in education to at least 6% of the GDP with at least half amount being spent on primary and secondary schools.
       
3

Promote gender equality and empower women

Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.

 

Reduction of gender gaps in literacy and wage rates by at least 50% by 2007.
  • Introduce legislation for one third reservation for women in Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha.
  • At least one third of the funds flowing into panchayats earmarked for programmes for the development women and children.
  • Enacting new legislation that gives women equal rights of ownership of assets like houses and land.
       
4 Reduce child mortality

Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.
Reduction of infant mortality rate to 45 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 1 by 2012.
  • To raise public spending to at least 2- 3% of the GDP over the next 5 years with focus on primary health care.
       
5 Improve Maternal Health

Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio (MMR).
Reduction of maternal mortality ratio to 2 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 28 by 2012.
  • To introduce a national scheme on health insurance for the poor families.
       
6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other
major diseases.
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7 Ensure environmental sustainability

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.

Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.

 


Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million
slum dwellers, by 2020.

Increase in forest and tree cover to 25% by 2007 and 33% by 2012.All villages to have sustained access to potable drinking water by 2007.Cleaning of major polluted rivers by 2007 and other notified streaches by 2012.
  • Ownership rights of minor forest produce, including Tendu Patta to those who live in forests.
  • Eviction of tribal communities and their forest dwelling from forest areas will be discontinued.

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