Millennium Development Goals

The stress of a disaster can cause significant challenges for anyone, but it is especially difficult for people living with disabilities. There are 8.5 million people living in New York City and according to the New York City Mayors Office of People with Disabilities, in 2016, roughly 948,208 people were living with a disability, accounting for about 11.2% of the population (Calise, 2016). Individuals with disabilities are disproportionately affected in disaster, emergency, and conflict situations

Poverty eradication http://www.fao.org/sustainable-development-goals/overview/fao-and-the-post-2015-development-agenda/poverty-eradication/en/ Overview: • Poverty has dropped significantly the last few years, but there is still extreme poverty in some of the rural places in the world. • For poverty reduction it is crucial rural development and agricultural productivity • Another thing that may have impact on the people living in extreme poverty may be Deteriorating ecosystems, unsustainable natural

Nations development program and the Egyptian government (Grayson and Jane, 71). The main aim of the ECRC is to ensure that both private and public companies align their social responsibility programs for the greatest benefits to the Egyptian citizens. It is important to note that in Egypt private organizations and NGOs mainly conduct CSR activities. It is the responsibility of the Egyptian government to provide basic services to the population. The country aimed to meet the millennium development goals

YEMEN Introducing Yemen The modern Republic of Yemen is a relatively new state, it was created after communist South Yemen and traditional North Yemen merged in 1990. The Human Development Index ranked Yemen 154th out of 187 countries in 2014. The poor ranking is a result of low average years of schooling, low per capita income and high population growth. Yemen is currently facing a civil war that started in 2015. The current war is split between those loyal to the internationally recognized government

The importance of governments and public administrators in these countries is high. They play a very important role when it comes to sustaining new development and maintain economic growth. The main roles of a government are to protect the environment, reduce socio-economic inequality, combat poverty, and support both social and private sector development, among others. The only way governments can accomplish this is to strengthen the public administrators in order to fulfill these need and ensure that

What are the possible alternatives? For this outcome, the group has chosen three possible options for alternatives (1) Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), (2) B Corp Certification or (3) remain as a private corporation. As the above-mentioned list, the team examined their values alongside the connections of sustainability. The group analyzed them with three criteria in mind. First, social perspective; then environmental perspective; lastly the economic perspective. Social perspective: The fundamental

Transformation of procurement practices for Non-production & Indirect Functions This paper will focus on the concepts of transformation in procurement practices for non- production & indirect functions while comparing & contrasting the impacts of the same in varied fields (Retail / Aerospace & Defense). The economic scenario since the late eighties forced companies to reduce costs to improve bottom-line profits. Although indirect procurement costs were considered as “fixed / insignificant” and much

Introduction Tahir et al. (2014) defined training and development as the organizational function in human resource management entails gaining of knowledge, experience, practices, and techniques. The principal purpose of training and development is to improve the performance of employees in the company. It is a planned experience of learning which teaches employees to perform current and future jobs efficiently. The intellectual skills acquired can be translated into a company’s resource through the

Raisa Feliz and Emmett Rafferty Interim Report #3- Health, Education and Women Over the past few decades Brazil has made major improvements to its healthcare system. Before 1988, half of Brazil’s population did not have health care coverage (World Health Organization). This changed when Brazil implemented Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde) which provided universal free healthcare coverage for its citizens. Since its enactment, 75% of Brazil’s population now rely on Sistema Único de

principally in rural areas in which access to health care is remarkably limited. Most of the clinics and hospitals (responsible for performing these abortions) currently existing in Bolivia require additional financial support and substantial developments (“Child and Maternal..” 2014). The Bolivian government has neglected to fulfill its responsibility of recognizing the fundamental right of its people to receiving adequate healthcare, and has not made substantial improvements to instill safer abortion