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The latest MDG Report for The Gambia
The latest MDG Report for The Gambia
January 30, 2014
This sixth national MDG report takes stock of progress made thus far in achieving the millennium development goals and identifies the challenges encountered as we set our eyes on the 2015 deadline for halving world poverty, which is just two years away. Recent empirical data shows that The Gambia has come a long way.
Highlights
- The Gambia is conspicuously lagging behind in MDG goals 1 and 5.
- Despite the slow progress registered for goals 4 and 5 appreciative improvements have been registered in other targets particularly on the proportion of households with improved sanitary facilities 85.8 per cent;