development and health dr haroon awan ceo avicenna consulting
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Development and Health
Dr Haroon AwanCEO
Avicenna Consulting
The world we live in
1.1 Billion people lack access to safe drinking water; 2.6 Billion lack access to basic sanitation
The world we live in77 Million children are out of school – 33% of these are children with disabilities
The world we live in
MDGs
The Big 5
Chronic DiseasesCardiovascular disease, mainly heart disease, stroke
Cancer
Chronic respiratory diseases
Diabetes
Chronic Diseases
Chronic Poverty
Health, Wealth and Development
Three new indices• Inequality Adjusted HDI
• Gender Inequality Index
• Multidimensional Poverty Index
Mahboob ul Haq Amartya Sen
Lack of sustainability is arguably the greatest challenge to human development
The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, HDRO-UNDP – November 2010
Worsening of key measures of sustainability, 1970-2006/8
Unfree
Capability Deprivation
? Choice
More MPI poor than income poor
The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, HDRO-UNDP – November 2010
Niger
Ethiopia
Rwanda
Tanzania
Mauritania
India
Cambodia
Morocco
Guatemala
China
Sri Lanka
Uzbekistan
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
$1.25 a day poorMPI headcounts
Percentage of population considered poor
Percentage of people living in poverty - MPI and income poverty, selected countries
Security
Identify Opportunities
Empowerment
Development is abou
t Peop
le
Change
Poverty Reduction
Development in ‘EYE’
Eye in ‘DEVELOPMENT’
Development
challenges –
next decade
Eye Heal
th Policy
Think
Tank
Re-thinking eye health
paradigms
Looking Ahead
MDGs Renewal
? NCDs
? NTDs
? INCLUSION
?Visual Impairment
? Water and Sanitation
Mahboob ul Haq – Pakistan’s Human Development Expert often quoted George Bernard Shaw
‘You see things that are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?’
Why not!