Human Development

SDG 3: good health and wellbeing

  • aims to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages

  • Reduce global maternal mortality

  • End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5:

  • End epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria, neglected tropical diseases, hepatisis and other communicable diseases

  • Reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health and wellbeing

SDG 1: end all forms of poverty, everywhere

  • reducing by half the population of men, women and children living poverty

  • end extreme poverty

  • ensuring equal rights and access to essential resources

SDG 2: create a world free of hunger, zero hunger

  • end hunger and ensure access for all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food

  • end all forms of malnutrition

  • double agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers and ensure equal access to land and resources

  • increase investment in agriculture infrastructure, research and technology

SDG 4: ensure access to inclusive and equitable quality education for all

  • ensure all children complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education

  • ensure children have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education

  • ensure all youth and adults have adequate literacy and numeracy skills

SDG 5: achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

  • end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

  • end all forms of violence against women and girls including human trafficking and sexual exploitation

  • eliminate harmful practices such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

SDG 6: ensure access to safe water and sanitation for all

  • achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water

  • enable access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all

  • improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimising release of hazardous chemicals and materials

  • increase the efficient use of water and ensure sustainable access to clean water

  • protect and restore water-related ecosystems

SDG 12: sustainable consumption and production patterns

  • Achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

  • Halve per capita global food waste

  • Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

WHO goals and objectives:

  • Branch of the UN

  • Overall goal is to promote, provide and protect health and wellbeing for all people, everywhere

Promote health-healthier populations:

  • Respond to climate change, an escalating health threat

  • Advance the primary health care approach & essential health system capacities for universal health coverage

Provide health – universal health coverage:

  • Advance the primary health care approach & essential health system capacities for universal health coverage

  • Improve health service coverage & financial protection to address inequality & gender inequalities


Protect health- health emergencies:

  • Prevent, mitigate and prepare for risks to health from all hazards

  • Rapidly detect and sustain an effective response to all health emergencies

Bilateral aid:

  • Aid one government provides to the government of another country

  • Purpose is to help reduce poverty and bring long term sustainable development

  • Purpose is to build strong relationships with governments of our neighboring countries which helps promote regional security

  • Provides programs that meet the needs of the country and its people through consultation

  • Governments work together to provide funding to specific projects which can boost economic, political, health and education systems

Multilateral aid:

  • Aid provided through international organisations such as the World Bank who combine funds from many countries to support countries in need

  • Used to support global issues, transitional issues such as global warming and disease control

  • Contributes to achieve equity in health and wellbeing and promote human development

NGO aid:

  • Care international

  • World vision international

  • Red cross international

  • Focuses on smaller community projects

  • Build strong community connectiox`ns, bring expertise to aid programs and can access more remote and conflict affected areas

Humanitarian assistance:

  • Aims to relieve suffering and provide immediate assistance to keep people alive following a crisis

  • Designed to be short term

  • Rapid and reactive response

  • Provided in the form of material goods

Principles of effective aid:

  • Ownership:

    • Governments and communities are involved in the decision making

    • Meets needs of local community

    • Considers local sociocultural and political factors

  • Monitoring:

    • Funding is used for its intended purpose

    • Regular monitoring of results and progress against program aims

  • Outcomes:

    • Targets patterns of disease and illness that need to be addressed

    • Focuses on education to build knowledge and skills of the local community

    • Focuses on women

    • Aims to reduce poverty and inequality

  • Partnerships:

    • Ensures community involvement and ownership

    • Combines different strengths and expertise of all partners

    • Resources are used effectively

DFAT:

  • Manages Australian Government’s Overseas Aid Program

  • Focused on working with neighbouring countries within the Indo-Pacific region

Why Indo-Pacific:

  • There are many people living in poverty

  • They are our neighbours