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Are we there yet? - An overview of Gender and women's concerns in the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) goal 7
Tafadzwa Muropa
August 27, 2009

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Abstract

This article highlights the challenges that civil society and government face in ensuring that all people have access to clean and safe water and sanitation, clean environment, decent and adequate shelter for their families. The MDGs also provide a framework in which member states around the world asses their progress in eradicating poverty by ensuring that the habitat is safe and conducive for humanity.

However, realising that there has not been such discussion around assessing the country's progress in MDG 7 at country level, this article addresses the key issues to be addressed in this goal, the efforts that civil society and government is engaged in to endure that people have access to decent shelter and safe water and sanitation, as well as addressing the alternatives that are already existing taking into account of the global crisis that has affected the efforts of the international community namely the global financial crisis and climate change.

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