WUNRN
GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT 2012: FOOD
PRICES, NUTRITION, & THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Direct Link to Full 185-Page Report:
Important Dimensions for Women &
Girls - Examples:
*Efforts are underway to improve the
monitoring of women's access to financial services, entrepreneurship, migration
and remittances, and violence agaist women.....Good statistics are essential
for developing policies that effectively promote gender equity and increase the
welfare and productivity of women.
*Girls have made substantial gains
in primary and secondary school enrollments. But the comparison of enrollment
rates obscures the underlying problem of underenrollment. Girls are still less
likely to enroll in primary school or stay in school until the end of the
primary stage.
*Rates of malnutrition have dropped
substantially, but over 100 million children under age 5 remain malnourished.
Malnutrition in children often begins at birth, when poorly nourished mothers
give birth to underweight babies. Malnourished children develop more slowly,
enter school later, and perform less well. Programs to encourage breastfeeding
and improve the diets of mothers, and of babies/children, can help.
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