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UN MDG Workshop: The Final Push – Media´s Role Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

UN MDG Workshop: The Final Push – Media´s Role Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 28 May, 2012 Bangkok, Thailand. Content. Where are we? Where do we need to be? What are the challenges? What can we do/media do?. Where are we? Where do we need to be?.

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UN MDG Workshop: The Final Push – Media´s Role Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

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  1. UN MDG Workshop: The Final Push – Media´s Role Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 28 May, 2012 Bangkok, Thailand

  2. Content • Where are we? • Where do we need to be? • What are the challenges? • What can we do/media do?

  3. 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

  4. Where are we? Where do we need to be? 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 Source: Staff calculations based on the United Nations MDG database.

  5. Where are we? Where do we need to be? • Large disparities at the country level Under-5 children underweight Source: Staff calculations based on data from DHS

  6. What are the challenges? • 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

  7. 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

  8. Thank you! http://www.unescap.org/stat/ Harumi Shibata Salazar shibata@un.org

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