The Millennium Development Goals (MDG), agreed by the United Nations in 2000, comprise eight targets to be reached by 2015. If achieved, these targets will make a serious impact on solving global poverty. Join us just a few weeks after the MDG review summit in New York to find out more – using Pecha Kucha.
Pecha Kucha is a Japanese presentation style, during which eight expert presenters will show 20 slides and speak for 20 seconds about each slide, informing us of how close we are to reaching each of the eight targets – or how far we are from them.
Hosting the evening will be Madeleine Bunting, associate editor of The Guardian, who writes on a regular basis about the newspaper’s Katine project in Uganda.
THE EIGHT TARGETS AND THEIR PRESENTERS:
1.Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger: Gideon Rabinowitz, Coordinator UK Aid Network
2.Achieve Universal Primary Education: Akanksha Marphatia, Head of International Education, Action Aid International
3.Promote Gender Equality and Empower Woman: Seri Wendoh, Gender and Rights Office, International Planned Parent Federation
4.Reduce Child Mortality: Lara Brearley, Health Policy Officer, Save the Children
5.Improve Maternal Health: Leo Bryant, Chair of UK Network for Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights, and Advocacy Manager for Marie Stopes
6.Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases: Diarmaid McDonald, Stop AIDS Campaign Coordinator
7.Ensure Environmental Sustainability: Tim Jones, Policy Officer, World Development Movement
8.A Global Partnership for Development: Nick Dearden, Director, Jubilee Debt Campaign
TO BOOK: http://jcclondon.org.uk/our-events/jcc-top-10/promises-on-poverty
