Millennium Development

Goals
Burundi and Papua New Guinea

Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

In Burundi, progress in achieving all MDG 1 targets is
below expectations. Performance in economic growth
observed since 2006 is good and above 4% per annum.
However, it is not sufficiently strong and is still well below
the 7% required to halve the proportion of the population
with income of less than one dollar a day by 2015.

Papua New Guinea has measured poverty in terms of

proportion of population under the poverty line, depth of
poverty, share of the poorest quintile in national
consumption and income inequality. With that it is expected
that they will achieve the MTDS goals which is 27% but are
unlikely to achieve the global target.

Achieve Universal Primary Education

The net enrolment rate in primary school in
Burundi has improved remarkably since the
adoption of MDGs in 2000. It rose from 52.88%
in 1990 to 96.1% in 2010.

Between 200-2007 gross enrollment for both male and female

increased, yet females are lower compared to males and this does
not reach the 100% enrollment goal. It is expected that only 60% will
be enrolled by 2015 when the MTDS was targeting for 70%. Literacy
rates in PNG were at 61.7% as of 2000 but it is expected that this
target will not be met.

Promote Gender Equality and Empower

Women
The data available shows that Burundi is performing well
in terms of the ratio of girls to boys in primary and
secondary school education, at 97% and 72%
respectively in 2009. However, the march towards gender
parity remains a key challenge in Higher education. The
ratio rose from 40% in 1999 to 54% in 2010.

Information on gender equality is based on those enrolled in

school and their literacy skills. Both men and women have
increased their attendance of school, yet there are still more
men attending than women. As of 2007 there was a difference
of 8% between the men and the women. Also in 2000 only
5.3% of employed women had an employment wage that
compared to 15.2% of the men.

Reduce Child Mortality

According to United Nations Inter-Agency Task
Force estimates, the infant and child mortality
rate in Burundi fell from 183 deaths per 1000
births in 1990 to 142 in 2010. The annual
average reduction over this period was between
1.3% and 2.8%. However, the 2010 Demographic
and Health Survey estimates this rate at 96
deaths for 1000 live births.

The Under-5 Mortality Rate decreased in PNG from

133 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 75 per 1000 in
2006. Also for the Infant Mortality Rate it decreased
from 82 per 1000 live births to 57 in 2006. It is
expected that PNG will achieve these national
targets.

Improve Maternal Health

The maternal mortality rate fell from 1100 to 800
maternal deaths per 100,000 live births between
1990 and 2010, an overall reduction of 27%. In
view of the trends, achieving this MDG target is
possible if significant efforts to invest in this area
are made by the Government and Burundis
development partners in 2015.

In 1994 it was estimated that the Maternal Mortality Ratio

in PNG was the highest in the world at 733 per 100,000
live births. As of 2006, only 51.8% of births were
attended by skilled health personnel and only 79.3
percent of pregnant women attended antenatal clinic. It
is not expected that they will meet this goal seeing as the
target is 274 per 100,000 live births and it is projected
that PNG will be at 703 per 100,000 live births.

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

HIV/AIDS remains a major public health problem
and Burundi ranks among the countries most
affected in eastern and central Africa. significant
progress has been made in terms of prevention
and treatment with positive effects on reducing
seroprevalence and reducing mortality.

HIV/AIDS is a major health problem for PNG. As of

2008 the cumulative number of reported HIV
infections in PNG was 28,294. As of 2008 the
reported number of new annual HIV infections was
5,084. 94.5% of newly infected people were within
the age of 15-59 years. It appears that the rate of
increase in HIV infection has been slowing down
since 2005.

Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Burundi is not on the right track to reverse the loss of
environmental resources. Forestry areas have declined in
the last twenty years. Between 1990 and 2010, the area
covered by forests fell from 11.3% to 6.7% of the total
surface of the country. However, despite the relatively high
rate of deforestation in Burundi, carbon dioxide emissions
have constantly fallen over the last twenty years

Papua New Guinea has signed 46 multilateral

environmental agreements and they have also adopted
indicators that are to help monitor the progress of the
environment. Yet it seems to be that none of the indicators
have been measured and probably won't ever be.
Monitoring is hard due to the conflicting views with regards
to the environmental issues.

Develop a Global Partnership for Development

The analyses conducted cast doubt over the capacity of
the global development partnership, as it currently
stands, to facilitate the achievement of MDGs in Burundi
by 2015. The countrys low capacity to mobilise the
resources needed in such a short timeframe makes
achieving the MDGs a real challenge.

Goal number 8 has not made a whole lot of

progress, especially with Papua New Guinea.
Most aspects of this goal can still not be
monitored effectively. There is not a lot of
information for PNG but it has been shown that
PNG has been able to halved their debt in only
three years.