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Cine-Indie For MDG: A National Digital Film Competition to Promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
BACKGROUND
In September 2000, the Philippines also joined 189 member-states of the United Nations, in committing to the ideals of working together to achieve peace and security, respect for human rights, promote good governance, and strive for development, with particular attention on the needs of the poor, vulnerable and children of the world through the Millennium Declaration. Through this Millennium Declaration, UN member-states then created and committed to a set of development goals and targets for global human development, called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to be achieved by 2015 (See Annex for list of MDG Targets).
A report by the Asian Development Bank, The Millennium Development Goals: Progress in Asia and the Pacific 2007, said that no developing country in the Asia-Pacific region, including the Philippines, will be able to meet all millennium development goals by 2015. It also said that of the 21 criteria under seven MDGs, the Philippines is either slow or showing no progress in nine categories.
In summary, it was noted that the Philippines lags in reducing the number of its population living in $1 or (P47) a day, reducing the number of underweight children, providing sufficient water, and improved sanitation in rural areas. The country is either showing no progress or even regressing in the MDG criteria on the number of primary education enrollees, number of those able to reach 5th grade, forest cover, carbon dioxide emission and water accessibility in urban areas. The Philippines still has a high maternal mortality rate with 11 mothers dying each day due to pregnancy and childbirth related complications.
To help raise awareness and accelerate efforts to achieve the MDGs, The Forum for FP and Development (The Forum) through the support of the United Nations Population Fund, Leadership Development Mechanism (LDM) Philippines, Philippine Center for Population and Development and other partners, invites independent filmmakers from around the country to join the National Digital Short Film Competition on the MDGs.
Cine-Indie For MDG: A National Digital Film Competition to Promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The competition has three categories – Short Feature, Animation and Documentary.
