"CLIMATE CHANGE, MDGs AND WASH.... Which is Challenging which?"

                                  What is Climate Change and the MDGs?

Climate Change and Global Warming refer to an increase in average global temperatures. Natural events and human activities are believed to be contributing to an increase in average global temperatures.  

The MDGs are international target to half the World Poverty by 2015 or to reduce the world poverty by half.

WASH is an acronym used to represent “Water Sanitation and Hygiene” projects.. Originally it is called WES (Water and Environmental Sanitation) but as at 2007, after the UN has realized that any Water and Sanitation project without Hygiene Education is not completed and would not be sustainable, they adopted the acronym that incorporate hygiene into the existing one. It is an integral part of the MDGs.

PAPER OBJECTIVE:

To sensitize policy makers, intervention agencies, donor organizations, NGOs, CBOs, philanthropists and other NSAs (Non state Actors) on the need to build with climate change in view in each and all aspects of their intervention.

To sensitize the above organizations on the need to focus resources on projects aim at mitigating and combating climate change along side their target goals.

To sensitize the policy makers on the imperative need to incorporate climate change mitigation into international and national policies and make it part of all development projects.

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