scholarly journals Sustainability-inspired composting latrine design

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-520
Author(s):  
D. Kierys ◽  
B. Barkdoll

In support of the Millennium Development Goals to provide improved sanitation to the world, a sustainability-inspired composting latrine design based on work in rural Panama, but also applicable to similar situations, is offered here. The design is based on the three aspects of sustainability namely economic, social, and technical. The new design will allow for improved health for current and future generations. The design is less costly (economic), is based on concepts to improve the likelihood of use based on interviews with potential users (social), and provides better quality compost through ammonia-based treatment (technical). The design consists of two ferrocement compost vaults to save money over conventional vaults, urine storage tanks to improve ammonia conditions in the compost, urine control valves for urine control, a water-washing bidet for personal washing (as preferred by the users), and a handwashing station within the latrine superstructure for convenience.

Author(s):  
R. Erkenov

The article refers to such a document as the "Millennium Declaration", formulated by the UN and the Millennium development goals (MDGs) included in this document. The effectiveness of this document for 2000 to 2015 and developing countries UN Conference new programs - sdgs, included in the document "transformation of our world: an agenda for sustainable development in the years up to 2030". Creating own programs aimed at achieving the sdgs of all countries without exception. The significance of this document for the world and the planet as a whole, and the need to implement the SDG program for each country in the interests of the current and future generations. Adaptation of the SDG program in countries such as Germany, Switzerland, great Britain, and Norway. As well as the rating of countries for the implementation of the SDG program published in early 2018 by the world organization SDSN together with Bertelsmann Stiftung, in which the Russian Federation ranks 62nd, and the Republic of Belarus is the leader in the EEU, taking 21 places. Problematic aspects in Russia, as a result of which the sdgs are not achievable and the country does not have its own programs at the state level aimed at their implementation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devin Joshi

AbstractInternational development agencies argue that “good governance” is crucial to attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but there are many ways to define and measure good governance. The paper begins by examining the World Bank’s minimal state conception of governance and then proposes an alternative approach based on strengthening state capacity. The paper tests this framework by developing a provisional Millennium Governance Index (MGI) for 126 countries. In comparative empirical analysis, the MGI has noticeably higher statistical correlations than the World Bank’s governance indicators on six out of seven MDGs even after controlling for per capita income levels.


2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (173) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhinav Vaidya ◽  
N Jha

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are international objectives on poverty reduction adopted by the world community and provide the broad context for this revolution in thinking and practice. The MDGs place a central focus on public health, in recognition of the fact that improvements in public health are vital not only in their own right but also to break the poverty trap of the world's poorest economies. Nepal has been committed to achieving the MDGs since it endorsed the Millennium Declaration. As we have at present just passed the midway through the 15 years to MDGs deadline of 2015, this article reviews the status of Nepal in achieving the MDGs, the challenges it faces and whether it can achieve the MDGs by 2015.Key words: development, goals, health, millennium, Nepal


Author(s):  
Claire Frost

Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World is the third instalment in United Cities and Local Government’s (UCLG) flagship series of global reports on local democracy and decentralisation (GOLD III). In the context of rapid urbanisation, climate change and economic uncertainty the report is an impressive attempt to analyse local government’s role in the provision of basic services, the challenges they are facing, and make recommendations to improve local government’s ability to ensure access for all. Published in 2014, the report is well positioned to feed into the current debate on what will follow the UN Millennium Development Goals, and examines the role of local government in the provision of basic services across the world regions.


2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOHA SAID ◽  
MICHAEL GEARY

Obstetric haemorrhage has been recognised as a major cause of maternal death as long as physicians have studied and written about childbirth. Until the 20th century, however, little was possible in the way of effective treatment. Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is still a frequent cause of death in many parts of the world. Even in developing countries, it remains the 3rd biggest killer of women in childbirth, despite considerable advances in medical care in the last half-century. The modern management of PPH may include a team of anaesthetists, haematologists, vascular surgeons, gynaecologists and radiologists.1Clearly, this change represents an advance which has saved and will continue to save countless lives, not only in the developed world where such teamwork is routine, but also in developing nations that are desperately looking for ways to reduce maternal mortality as part of their efforts to comply with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015.2


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-185
Author(s):  
Hasnan Baber

America is the richest country in the world. And yet tonight, thousands of your neighbours will go to bed hungry. It may be your child's schoolmate who is undernourished and has difficulty learning on an empty stomach. Or it could be a co-worker, a working mother whose low-wage job doesn't make ends meet. Perhaps it's an elderly neighbour who has to make a decision whether to delay filling a prescription or buying groceries. The faces of hunger are as broad as the faces of America- David Nasby, General Mills Over 1.2 billion people - one in every five on Earth - live on less than $1 (U.S)a day. We're getting fatter and fatter in America, as well as in most of the rest of the world. Of course there are some starving people who don't have enough to eat or to sustain themselves, and this is a serious problem that should be addressed. Poverty does not have one clear definition. It is a complicated, multi-faceted concept. For this paper the term 'poverty' will be used to mean a lack of access to basic resources including food, clean water, sanitation, education and capital. Indeed, hunger is the worst manifestation of poverty and it will persist as long as poverty exists but Are people only hungry for food? No!. People are hungry everywhere, some for money, some for property, some for lust, some for love, some for power. As long as there is a desire for more and more, hunger cannot be eradicated. Hunger for food is fatal but equally debatable issue as other hungers of world. You give food to poor because they are hungry, they will be more hungry for better food then. Hunger is immortal but poverty can be murdered. The world has made great strides in the struggle against poverty, but we're a long way from realizing the benchmark of the Millennium Development Goals to cut in half by 2015 the proportion of people who suffer poverty. Growing population is not the cause of poverty, money is enough in the world infact more than it would have been but it is the distribution which is flawed. Richer getting richer and poorer getting poorer, it is not the mistake of poor or the luck of richer but the system itself which was created to make such difference whether it is brettonwoods conference or Americas plan to capture oil contented nations. The aim of this paper will be to prove, it is poverty alone which can be eradicated from the world by different mechanisms and policies for which every country should stand and deliver its part but not the hunger of desire to have more and more.


2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-219
Author(s):  
Usha Sundar Harris

The 2008 AMIC conference theme, Changing Media, Changing Societies, Media and the Millennium Development Goals, also the title of this publication, highlighted the role of media in this development process,  as the editors, Banerjee and Muppidi, point out: In our globalised world, the media is more than just a watchdog. Around the world, in every society, they play important roles including creating awareness, disseminating the relevant messages at various stages of the development process, providing channels of communication between various stakeholders, and ensuring transparency in this global effort of the UN to achieve its millennium development goals (p.3). 


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Ramakrishnan B

Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations have brought various policies and conventions to support minorities across the world, including differently-abled persons.  However, we are not where we are today without the contributions of numerous countries, developmental organizations and non-government institutions. For instance, we've the UN proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that promote  quality and equality in education for all, with zero rejection and discrimination, including those against children with disability (CWD). This paper systematically maps the existing literature on the perception of in-service teachers towards including CWD in a regular classroom with the challenges faced by teachers toward facilitating a uniform approach to education for all amid shortage of relevant skills and resources. Future implications and recommendations are also discussed in the paper.


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