UNITED NATIONS PHILIPPINE PROPOSED PROGRAM/S

MILLENNIUM SITUATION
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
1. Eradicate extreme With poverty taking a toll on
poverty and hunger Filipinos, parents often can’t
make enough money to support
their families; children then have
to be taken out of school to work
in harsh conditions. Statistics
show that around 3.6 million
children, from ages 5-17, are
child laborers in the Philippines.
This is 15.9 percent of the entire
population.
2. Achieve universal According to Unesco Director-
primary education General Irina Bokova, in the
Philippines 57 million are still
failing to learn simply because
they are not in school. Poor
quality of education is still a
crisis and one third of primary
school children are not learning
the basics, whether they have
been to school or not.
3. Promote gender equality According to the study, the
and empower women Philippines is the region's best
performer on indicators of gender
equality in work, such as
participation in professional and
technical jobs and women in
leadership positions, and is 'near
best' on perceived wage gap for
similar work. On gender equality
in society, the Philippines is in
line with the regional average on
essential services and enablers of
economic opportunity and on
physical security and autonomy,
and 'above average' on legal
protection and political voice.
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other
diseases
7. Ensure environmental
sustainability
8. Develop a global
partnership for
development