The Millennium Development Goals and CHP
The Colorado Haiti Project Board of Directors has formally adopted the United Nations' Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the framework for our continuing program development in Haiti. Father Kesner and the Community Advisory Committee in Petit Trou de Nippes have also endorsed the MDGs. Adopted by 190 nations around the world, as well as the United States Episcopal Church, the Millennium Development Goals are aimed at improving the human condition. They are:
- Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger
- Universal access to primary education
- Gender equity and the empowerment of women
- Reduction in child mortality
- Improvement in maternal health
- Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Steps to insure environmental sustainability
- Developing global partnerships.
The Colorado Haiti Project has and continues to develop specific strategies, linked directly to the MDGs, to address the pressing needs of the Haitian people living in the Nippes region on the southern peninsula . . . a region ravaged by the inhumane conditions of extreme poverty. Building on the work of past years, expanding our vision, and utilizing the MDGs as a framework, the Colorado Haiti Project has evolved into an organization that supports and facilitates the full development of a healthy and independent community . . . providing the assistance needed to move the community, as former Haitian president Aristide has said, "From misery to poverty with dignity."
Please read on for a blueprint paper by CHP Board member Warren Berggren on the use of each Millennium Development Goal as a guidepost for current and future program design at Petit trou de Nippes. Dr. Berggren's analysis adopts the evaluation criteria used by the UN under each of the MDGs.