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The Millennium Villages Project is a project of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the United Nations Development Programme, and Millennium Promise. It is an approach to ending extreme poverty and meeting the Millennium Development Goals—eight globally endorsed targets that address the problems of poverty, health, gender equality, and disease. The Millennium Villages aim to promote an integrated approach to rural development. By improving access to clean water, sanitation and other essential infrastructure such as education, food production, basic health care, and by focusing on environmental sustainability, Millennium Villages claims to ensure that communities living in extreme poverty have a real, sustainable opportunity to lift themselves out of the poverty trap.〔 〕 Millennium Villages are divided into different types. There are the original core villages which include different agro-ecological zones covering 14 sites in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including: Sauri and Dertu, Kenya; Koraro, Ethiopia; Mbola, Tanzania; Ruhiira, Uganda; Mayange, Rwanda; Mwandama, Malawi; Pampaida and Ikaram, Nigeria; Potou, Senegal; Tiby and Toya, Mali and Bonsaaso, Ghana.〔In total the Millennium Villages Project reaches nearly 500,000 people in these countries. (【引用サイトリンク】accessdate= 2008-06-30 )〕 There are additional Millennium Villages which are following the Millennium Village program but which are not directly supported through The Earth Institute at Columbia University. These additional villages are located in Liberia, Cambodia, Jordan, Mozambique, Haiti, Cameroon and Benin. The project was initially funded through a combination of World Bank loans and private contributions, including $50 million from George Soros. == Expansion == The Millennium Villages Project is a ten-year project aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. On 13 August 2013 The Millennium Villages Project announced that the Islamic Development Bank would provide $105 million in interest-free loans to 8 countries towards ending extreme poverty, improving public health and more sustainable development. All in all there are more than 20 countries that are hosting or starting Millennium Village-related projects. In July 2013, the Ugandan government announced it would scale up the Millennium Villages Project in the original region around the Ruhiira Millennium Village through funding from the Islamic Development Bank. In September 2013, the Rwandan government announced it would scale up the Millennium Villages Project as part of its Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme which addresses poverty nationwide. The Millennium Villages Project is playing a key role to Nigeria which is currently using hundreds of millions of dollars through an international debt relief program to fund programs designed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Millennium Villages Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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