Annex-2: Presentation on the Development scenario of the CHT
(against the targets of the Millennium Development Goals)
PARTNERSHIP for Development
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Overview of Development in Chittagong Hill Tracts
(Against the Millennium Development Goals)
The Millennium Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives that world leaders agreed on at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. For each goal one or more targets have been set, most for 2015, using 1990 as a benchmark.
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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Target for 2015: Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger
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Source: UNDP & ADB
Total population Population growth rate GDP per capita % of undernourished people People living below $1/day
BD CHT 14 crore 14 lacs 1.8% $ 350 35% 36% >75% >50%
Economic growth 5% (90s) in the CHT, but with high outflow of revenues/profits outside the region. Growth in service sector: 5% Growth in agriculture: 3%
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Target for 2015: Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school
Achieve Universal Primary Education
BD
CHT 77% 78% 48-65% 76% PE >80% SE
Net primary enrollment ratio Ratio of boys/girls in primary schools Adult literacy rate Male/Female literacy ratio Govt. share of cost of education % of govt. expenditure on education
89% 96% 49% .71
15%
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Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Targets for 2005 and 2015: Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
• Seats in Parliament held by women: (2%)
(highest in the world Sweden 45% - Pakistan 20.6%) • Female • Ratio
Administrators & Managers: (8.5%)
(Highest in Philippines 58.1% - Pakistan 8.7%)
– Female/Male earned income: (.56)
(Highest Cambodia 0.77)
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Reduce Child Mortality
Target for 2015: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five BD -5 Child mortality rate % of children vaccinated (measles) DPT immunization (3 doses) -5 children malnutrition (MUAC) girls/boys CHT
77 per 100000 65% 69% 74.4% 5.7 cm 3.6 cm 64% 4.5 cm 3.3 cm
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Improve Maternal Health Target for 2015: Reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women dying in childbirth
Maternal Mortality rate Delivery attended by skilled health personnel Child birth at home Awareness about ARI BD 60 per 100,000 live birth 12% 92.2% 76% CHT
<10% 95.5% 32%
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Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Target for 2015: Target for 2015: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. BD No. of cases of malaria/1000 No of malaria caused deaths/100,000 No of deaths from tuberculosis/100,000 4 1 56 CHT 30
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Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Targets: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources. By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water. By 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
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% of land covered by forests Pond/river as sources of drinking water Pond/river as sources of household work Open defecation Electricity consumption (Norway – 24,422 KwH)/person
BD 9% 3.3% 21.3% 23.7% 96 KwH/ person
CHT 1.1 million/ha 36% 56% 45% 14-20 GwH total
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Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Targets: Address the least developed countries’ special needs, and the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems Develop decent and productive work for youth
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Total volume of ODA (in $) $ per inhabitant Debt service(% of exports)
BD CHT 1,024 million --$7 9% (37.5% in 1990)
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Challenges lying ahead for sustainable development in CHT
• Creating partnership between CHT institutions and other stakeholders, including private sector • Building/generating consensus among the all stakeholders for a solution of various outstanding issues • Empowerment of communities for self-reliant development • Attracting private sector investment • Marketing linkages • Building confidence among various CHT stakeholders for development • Enabling the relevant CHT institutions for 14 assuming their role on development