 | Eliminating
school and uniform fees to ensure that all children, especially girls, are not
out of school because of their families' poverty. Lost revenues should be replaced
with more equitable and efficient sources of finance, including donor assistance. |
| Providing
impoverished farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with affordable replenishments of soil
nitrogen and other soil nutrients. |
| Providing
free school meals for all children using locally produced foods with take-home
rations. |
| Designing
community nutrition programs for pregnant and lactating women and children under
five that support breastfeeding, provide access to locally produced complementary
foods and, where needed, provide micronutrient (especially zinc and vitamin A)
supplementation. |
| Providing
regular annual deworming to all schoolchildren in affected areas to improve health
and educational outcomes. |
| Training
large numbers of village workers in health, farming, and infrastructure (in one-year
programmes) to ensure basic expertise and services in rural communities. |
| Distributing
free, long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed-nets to all children in malaria-endemic
zones to cut decisively the burden of malaria. |
| Eliminating
user fees for basic health services in all developing countries, financed by increased
domestic and donor resources for health. |
| Expanding
access to sexual and reproductive health information and services, including family
planning and contraceptive information and services, and closing existing funding
gaps for supplies and logistics. |
| Expanding
the use of proven effective drug combinations for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
For AIDS, this includes successfully completing the 3 by 5 initiative to bring
anti-retrovirals to 3 million people by 2005. |
| Setting
up funding to finance community-based slum upgrading and earmark idle public land
for low-cost housing. |
| Providing
access to electricity, water, sanitation, and the Internet for all hospitals,
schools, and other social service institutions using off-grid diesel generators,
solar panels, or other appropriate technologies. |
| Reforming
and enforcing legislation guaranteeing women property and inheritance rights. |
| Launching
national campaigns to reduce violence against women. |
| Establishing,
in each country, an office of science advisor to the president or prime minister
to consolidate the role of science in national policymaking. |
| Empowering
women to play a central role in formulating and monitoring MDG-based poverty reduction
strategies and other critical policy reform processes, particularly at the level
of local governments. |
|
Providing community-level support to plant trees to provide soil nutrients, fuelwood,
shade, fodder, watershed protection, windbreak, and timber. |
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