The document discusses the progress made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the Philippines. It provides details on the status and challenges in goals related to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing a global partnership for development. While some goals have seen improvements, such as reductions in poverty, child mortality and malaria, other goals like improving maternal health and achieving universal primary education face significant challenges and may not be fully achieved by 2015.

1. Millennium
development goals
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4. ERADICATE
EXTREME
HUNGER AND
POVERTY

5. #1• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion
of people whose income is less than $1 a day
• Achieve full and productive employment and decent
work for all, including women and young people
• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger

6. Eradicate extreme hunger and
poverty
• significant proportion of the Filipino population remained poor over
the past two decades
• the Filipino households’ has less capacity to meet their basic
needs
• the food and fuel price hikes, global financial and economic crisis
and natural calamities
• more than half (56.9%) of the households in the country are still
not able to meet the nutritional requirements of their members,
despite generally showing improvement from 1993 (69.4%).
• there had been an improvement in terms of combating malnutrition
among children aged five and below from 1990 to 2005, as
evidenced by a 10 percent drop in its proportion

7. Eradicate extreme hunger and
poverty
• the lack of gainful employment
• Labor productivity has been declining in recent years
• the employment-to-population ratio for the productive age group, particularly
among women and youth, is showing a downward trend
• the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) deployed abroad continued to grow
rapidly with the number of OFWs deployed in 2008 totaling 1.23 million
• there is also a need for the government to address issues like ‘brain drain’ and
deskilling of professionals who accepted low-skilled jobs abroad
• need to face are concerns about OFWs’ welfare and protection while working
outside the country

8. Poverty incidence among population
(%), 1990-2006

9. Putting food on the table
through SAPAT

10. After Philippines typhoon,
clean-up brings recovery

12. ACHIEVE
UNIVERSAL
PRIMARY
EDUCATION

13. #2
• Ensure that, by 2015, children
everywhere, boys and girls alike,
will be able to complete a full
course of primary schooling

14. Achieve universal primary education
• The trend in elementary participation in the Philippines suggests that the
target of universal access to elementary education by 2015 is in great
risk of not being achieved
• From a near universal rate (97%) in 1999/2000,
• as measured by net enrolment rate (NER),
• participation in elementary education dropped to 83.2 percent in 2006
• 2007 at 84.8 percent

15. Achieve universal primary education
• as measured by cohort survival rate (CSR)
• 63.5 percent in 1999/2000,
• the CSR has reached its highest level at 75.4 percent in 2008/09
• the elementary completion rate (CompR) has generally shown an
improving trend from 1991 to 2008
• this requires greater effort and creativity from the government,
particularly the Department of Education, to produce consistent and
significant improvements in terms of the holding power of schools.

16. Elementary Education Net Enrollment
Rate (%), School Years 1991-1992 to
2008-2009

18. PROMOTE GENDER
EQUALITY AND
EMPOWER WOMEN

19. #3
• Eliminate gender disparity in primary
and secondary education, preferably by
2005, and in all levels of education no
later than 2015

20. Promote gender equality and
empower women
• the Government recognizes the other dimensions in gender equality
• Male-to-female ratio: The male-to-female population ratio in the
Philippines is 101 to 100. However, Filipino women live longer than
men, with a life expectancy of 72.5 years compared to 67.2 years for
men;
• Literacy: Women also have a slight edge over men in simple literacy
rate (94.3 vs. 92.6 percent) and functional literacy rate (86.3 vs. 81.9
percent)
• Gender Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure
(GEM):
• However, these gains do not necessarily translate into positive
measurable changes in the roles and status of women in the country;

21. Promote gender equality and
empower women
• Gender-based violence (GBV): a recent national survey estimated that
around 2.2 million Filipino women or nine percent of all women ages 18
years and above,
• experienced violence inflicted by their partners
• sexual abuse and exploitation
• Trafficking: The Philippines is recognized as a source, transit, and
destination country for cross-border trafficking of women and children
for sexual exploitation and forced labor
• While women have a large presence in the growing informal economy,
they have limited benefits and protection, such as social security and
health care

22. Promote gender equality and
empower women
• Moreover, their economic contribution was largely invisible.
• However, the average cash remittances of women were only
60 percent that of men. This is indicative of the status of
women OFWs in lesser skilled and often unprotected lower
paying jobs.
• Civil and political rights: The Philippine Constitution upholds
the right of women to sectoral participation in national and local
legislative bodies. The Philippines is one of the few countries
with a woman President. Four out of 24 senators are women.

24. REDUCE CHILD
MORTALITY

25. #4
• Reduce by two thirds, between
1990 and 2015, the under-five
mortality rate

26. Reduce child mortality
• The country has been performing well in terms of reducing child
mortality over the past two decades.
• The programs offer a range of interventions that are appropriate at
various life cycle stages
• Some of these interventions include breastfeeding and
complementary feeding, micronutrient supplementation,
immunization of both children and mothers, integrated
management of sick children, child injury prevention and control,
birth spacing, and proper hygiene.
• Meanwhile, child mortality is relatively high in rural areas where
women have no or little education and/or income poor.

27. Under-five Mortality Rate, 1990-2008

29. IMPROVE
MATERNAL
HEALTH

30. #5
• Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and
2015, the maternal mortality ratio
• Achieve, by 2015, universal access to
reproductive health

31. Improve maternal health
• critical danger of not achieving the target on improving maternal
health by 2015.
• maternal mortality rate (MMR) had been declining over the past
two decades
• the decline appears to have stalled making the target reduction
in MMR of 52 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2015 highly
improbable
• The high rate of maternal deaths may be attributed to
inadequate access to integrated reproductive health services by
women
• significant number of Filipino women lack access to qualified
reproductive health services.

32. Improve maternal health
• Over half of births in the country occurred at home
• traditional birth attendants
• In 2006, the country’s total fertility rate was at 3.2 births
• 2003 rate of 3.5 (FPS 2006).
• three million pregnancies that occur each year, half were
unplanned, of which, one-third end in abortions
• Induced abortion is one of the leading causes of maternal
deaths in the country

33. Improve maternal health
• Filipino women desire fewer children and would like to use modern
contraceptives, only half of them practice family planning (FP).
• Even when FP services are available, it has been observed that the
decision to seek health services is often determined by gender norms
in the family and community, as well as cultural and religious beliefs
and practices.
• Early pregnancy is also a problem.
• This further leads to unwanted pregnancies and induced abortions, and
consequently maternal deaths.
• to actively promote family planning and responsible parenthood most
especially for low-income households and young people

34. Maternal Mortality Rate, 1993, 1998 and
2006

36. COMBAT
HIV/AIDS,
MALARIA AND
OTHER
DISEASES

37. #6
• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse
the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Achieve, by 2010, universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who
need it
• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse
the incidence of malaria and other major
diseases

38. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases
• HIV and AIDS
• Data from the National HIV and AIDS Registry of the Department of Health
reveals an exponential increase in new reported HIV cases in the country
with almost half of the cumulative infections reported from 2006 to 2009
• From one new case detected every three days in 2000, the reported HIV
incidence increased to two per day in 2009
• the cumulative death toll from AIDS had already reached 337
• Sexual transmission continues to be the main cause of HIV infection
• the increase in needle sharing among injecting drug users raises
apprehension
• HIV and AIDS awareness across population groups, especially among the
youth, leaves much room for improvement.

39. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases
• Malaria
• Malaria morbidity and mortality rates dropped from 1990 to 2009
• The continuous decline in morbidity and mortality due to malaria may be
attributed to the continued implementation of the Malaria Control Program
by the Department of Health
• Tuberculosis
• Meanwhile, there had also been improvements in the indicators for
tuberculosis in recent years..
• Cure rate, on the other hand, is still slightly below the 85 percent national
target but it would be feasible.
• the adoption of the DOTS strategy since 1996 has contributed to the
achievement of the program targets.

40. Number of HIV and AIDS cases by year,
January 1984 to December 2009

42. ENSURE
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY

43. #7
• Integrate the principles of sustainable development
into country policies and programmes and reverse the
loss of environmental resources
• Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a
significant reduction in the rate of loss
• Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population
without sustainable access to safe drinking water and
basic sanitation
• By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement
in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

44. Ensure environmental sustainability
• The Philippine Agenda 21 continues to be the guiding
document for the country’s strategy for sustainable
development.
• Its action agenda for protecting the ecosystem is
comprehensive, with targets for the following:
• forest and upland, coastal and marine, urban ecosystem,
freshwater, lowland and agricultural, minerals and biodiversity
• The number of proclaimed Protected Areas (PAs) under the
National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) has been
continuously expanding

45. Ensure environmental sustainability
• Pollution remains a problem particularly in the country’s
major urban centers. It is projected that the volume of air
pollutants will continue to increase due to greater industrial
activity, heavy traffic and the large number of vehicles plying
the streets, many of which are smoke-belching public utility
vehicles.
• An average Filipino generates 0.3 and 0.5 kilograms of
garbage daily in rural and urban areas respectively.
• With an estimated population of 10.5 million, the total waste
generated in Metro Manila alone could run up to 5,250 metric
tons per day.

46. Proportion of population with access to
safe water, 1991-2007

48. DEVELOP A GLOBAL
PARTNERSHIP FOR
DEVELOPMENT

49. #8
• Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-
discriminatory trading and financial system
• Address the special needs of the least developed countries,
landlocked developing countries and small island developing
States
• Deal comprehensively with the debt of developing countries
• In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide
access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies, especially information and
communications

50. Develop a global partnership for
development
• liberalizing its trade system and making the investment climate favorable
to foreign investors.
• In 1994, the Philippines acceded to the World Trade Organization
(WTO), a multilateral body dedicated to rules and non-discriminatory
trade.
• an active participant in the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) anchored
on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) scheme.
• At this point, 60 percent of products in the inclusion list are subject to
zero duty.
• APEC seeks open and free trade and investment in the region by 2010
for industrialized economies, and by 2020 for the developing economies

51. Develop a global partnership for
development
• Access to essential drugs
• The initiative of making low-cost yet quality essential medicines
accessible to Filipino people, most especially the indigents, had
been making progress for about a decade already.
• The government has been proactive in developing strategies
toward implementation of laws and programs that would support
this initiative.
• Interestingly, supports from private institutions, local
communities and other sectors contribute a lot in achieving this
progress.

52. Develop a global partnership for
development
• In 2000, the Department of Health (DOH) initiated
the Parallel Drug Importation Program (PDIP) as an
innovative strategy to reduce the costs of essential
medicines
• This was expanded to the Gamot na Mabisa at
Abot-Kaya (GMA 50) Program to ensure that
affordable, high quality, safe and effective drugs
and medicines are always available, especially to
the poor.

53. Develop a global partnership for
development
• Access to benefits of new technologies, especially information and
communications
• In terms of information and communications technology (ICT),
significant progress had already been achieved in this sector.
• Fixed telephone line, cellular mobile telephone and internet
subscriptions have all been growing rapidly over the past two decades.
• One of the challenges, though, has been the disparity in terms of
geographical reach of ICT services.
• In response to this, efforts have already been exerted to bring ICT
services to the unserved and underserved areas.