Greener Journal of Social Sciences

Greener Journal of  Social Sciences Vol. 8 (3), pp. 029-037, 2018

  ISSN: 2276-7800 © 2018 GJSS

Short Communication

Manuscript Number: 081418115

(DOI: http://doi.org/10.15580/GJSS.2018.3.081418115)

 

Cameroon in the Whirlwind of the Millennium Development Goals

 

 

KIJEM YUH Joseph

 

 

Joseph KIJEM YUH is a holder of a Postgraduate Diploma in Translation Studies and a Master’s Degree in Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law/Action. He is a Senior Translator at the Central Bureau for Censuses and Population Studies   (BUCREP), Yaounde-Cameroon.

Abstract

This article is a summary attempt to examine the efforts or actions of the Cameroonian Government to attain the eight Millennium Development Goals. These goals were adopted by the Millennium Summit of 2000 within the confines of the Millennium Declaration. By 2015, they are supposed to be attained by all the countries which adopted them.

These goals are as follows: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing the child mortality rate, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing a global partnership for development.

Irrespective of the endeavours of the Cameroonian Government - through its various structures (ministries, projects, etc) – to attain the said goals, much work is still needed in many aspects. To be more precise, the Cameroonian Government needs to work very hard,  since, according to the 2008-2009 Human Development Report, Cameroon has made some improvements within the framework of only three of the said goals ( goals dealing with education and gender balance).

On the strength of the foregoing assertions, the Cameroonian Government should devise appropriate ways and means of remedying this undesirable or regrettable situation. The most important or significant of these ways and means is the setting up of a viable structure to coordinate and streamline Government action aimed at attaining the Millennium Development Goals, for purposes of speeding up the current moribund and disorganized machinery targeting the goals.

NB…..It should be noted that this article was written during the MDGs period or era.

Keywords: Poverty, Gender, Equality, Empowering, Women, Mortality, Maternal, Diseases, Sustainability, Partnership

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