MDGs, SDGs and AIL
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Afghan Institute
of Learning Since 1996 Lives Impacted 15.9 million Students 420,030 Centers 354 Clinics 20 Teachers Trained 27,405 Trained in Workshops 36343 Patients 2.6 million Health Education 2.8 million Provinces AIL has worked in 14 Year 2017 Students 23,687 Medical Clinics 8 Health patients 231,544 Health Education 174,466 Learning Centers 43 Teachers Trained 688 Trained in Workshops 3,275 Afghans Employed 450 Volunteers 100 Provinces working in 11 AIL
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MDGs and SDGsThe 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed on at UN summit in 2000 and set targets to:
MDG 1 Eradicate Extreme Hunger MDG 2 Achieve Universal Primary Education MDG 3 Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women MDG 4 Reduce Child Mortality MDG 5 Improve Maternal Health MDG 6 Combat HIV AIDS Malaria and Other Diseases MDG 7 Ensure Environmental Sustainability MDG 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development To achieve these goals, poorer countries pledged to improve policies and governance and increase accountability to their own citizens; wealthy countries pledged to provide the resources. The MDGs were built not just as statements of intent but as achievable objectives. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were built on the MDGs and agreed by 193 world leaders in 2015. They are a 17-point plan to end poverty, combat climate change and fight injustice and inequality. · SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere · SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture · SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages · SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning · SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls · SDG 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all · SDG 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all · SDG 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all · SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation · SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries · SDG 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable · SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns · SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts · SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources · SDG 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss · SDG 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies · SDG 17: Revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development The SDGs are a to-do-list for the world as a community, that can be achieved if everyone plays their part. |
AIL's contribution to MDGs
AIL’s work adds to the progress in Afghan society towards the Millennium Development Goals of: eradicating poverty and hunger and gender equality and empowering women and reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.
AIL’s Learning Centers (LCs) provide opportunity for women to become literate, educated and gain income generating skills. This leads to personal growth, self- confidence and the ability to earn an income. They also learn about their health, human rights, gender equality, peace and their own leadership capabilities. The women learn to think for themselves, empowering them to greater self- sufficiency. When women become more accomplished and able to handle more and to earn income this helps the husbands understand the importance of everyone having an education enabling all family members to contribute to financial independence.
AIL’s teachers and teacher trainers provide high quality teaching and training. AIL teacher trainers continue to add new curriculum. For example, how to handle money and save for the future and hands-on learning about the native, natural environment. Teacher trainers are also adding new experiential learning opportunities to expand on critical thinking skills. They incorporate training in a live classroom setting so the teachers can try out new methodologies.
The Afghan government consistently asks AIL to train its public school teachers.
AIL also contributes to the MDGs of reducing child mortality and improving maternal health. AIL runs 3 hour Expectant Mother Workshops which give expectant mothers and their birth attendants detailed health education. Topics include pregnancy, delivery, breastfeeding and signs of high risk factors for mother or baby and how clinic/hospital birthing is safer. The training is aimed at mothers who have little knowledge and limited healthcare options. Results have been remarkable with 99% of women trained, choosing a clinic based birth. This is remarkable in a society where home birth is the norm. These women have little access to women who have given birth at clinics/hospitals so they are stepping out of the known in choosing a clinic birth.
AIL’s education, health, and health education programs provide a solid basis for improvement in health and education systems in Afghanistan and for individuals. Small steps being taken build a strong foundation and sustainable change occurs one individual and one community at a time. People must become healthy and literate, and understand their most basic rights and become self- supporting and contributing to family and community to build that solid foundation nationwide.
AIL’s Learning Centers (LCs) provide opportunity for women to become literate, educated and gain income generating skills. This leads to personal growth, self- confidence and the ability to earn an income. They also learn about their health, human rights, gender equality, peace and their own leadership capabilities. The women learn to think for themselves, empowering them to greater self- sufficiency. When women become more accomplished and able to handle more and to earn income this helps the husbands understand the importance of everyone having an education enabling all family members to contribute to financial independence.
AIL’s teachers and teacher trainers provide high quality teaching and training. AIL teacher trainers continue to add new curriculum. For example, how to handle money and save for the future and hands-on learning about the native, natural environment. Teacher trainers are also adding new experiential learning opportunities to expand on critical thinking skills. They incorporate training in a live classroom setting so the teachers can try out new methodologies.
The Afghan government consistently asks AIL to train its public school teachers.
AIL also contributes to the MDGs of reducing child mortality and improving maternal health. AIL runs 3 hour Expectant Mother Workshops which give expectant mothers and their birth attendants detailed health education. Topics include pregnancy, delivery, breastfeeding and signs of high risk factors for mother or baby and how clinic/hospital birthing is safer. The training is aimed at mothers who have little knowledge and limited healthcare options. Results have been remarkable with 99% of women trained, choosing a clinic based birth. This is remarkable in a society where home birth is the norm. These women have little access to women who have given birth at clinics/hospitals so they are stepping out of the known in choosing a clinic birth.
AIL’s education, health, and health education programs provide a solid basis for improvement in health and education systems in Afghanistan and for individuals. Small steps being taken build a strong foundation and sustainable change occurs one individual and one community at a time. People must become healthy and literate, and understand their most basic rights and become self- supporting and contributing to family and community to build that solid foundation nationwide.
AIL and the SDGs
AIL’s work directly contributes to the progress towards achieving the SDGs especially SDG 3, 4 and 5. Details of the goals are listed below.
SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
Targets by 2030:
Reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs
AIL's health program helps Afghans get the care they need and health education to improve their lives and remain healthy. AIL runs workshops to educate pregnant women so they can have a healthy pregnancy and safe birth. AIL health program link.
SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
Major progress has been made for education access, specifically at the primary school level, for both boys and girls. However, access does not always mean quality of education, or completion of primary school. Currently, 103 million youth worldwide still lack basic literacy skills, and more than 60 per cent of them are women
Target 1 "By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes"- shows the commitment to nondiscriminatory education outcomes
AIL runs Learning Centers that provide education to the most needy helping the uneducated and those who are behind peer groups in learning. New skills are promoted such as computers as well as income generating skills such as sewing. AIL education program link.
SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Targets by 2030:
Leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.
One of AIL's main goals is the empowerment of Afghan women so they can live life to the full realizing their potential and making a contribution to their family and community life. Training women in leadership, health, peace and democracy is central to its education philosophy. We are equipping women with education and life skills. AIL's training program, health program, education program links
SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
Targets by 2030:
Reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs
AIL's health program helps Afghans get the care they need and health education to improve their lives and remain healthy. AIL runs workshops to educate pregnant women so they can have a healthy pregnancy and safe birth. AIL health program link.
SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
Major progress has been made for education access, specifically at the primary school level, for both boys and girls. However, access does not always mean quality of education, or completion of primary school. Currently, 103 million youth worldwide still lack basic literacy skills, and more than 60 per cent of them are women
Target 1 "By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes"- shows the commitment to nondiscriminatory education outcomes
AIL runs Learning Centers that provide education to the most needy helping the uneducated and those who are behind peer groups in learning. New skills are promoted such as computers as well as income generating skills such as sewing. AIL education program link.
SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Targets by 2030:
Leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.
One of AIL's main goals is the empowerment of Afghan women so they can live life to the full realizing their potential and making a contribution to their family and community life. Training women in leadership, health, peace and democracy is central to its education philosophy. We are equipping women with education and life skills. AIL's training program, health program, education program links
