My wish for Nigeria, by Bill Gates
and others, speaks about 2019 Goalkeepers Report, Nigeria, the role of geography on inequality and many more. Excerpts:Well, Nigeria is a super-important country and one that the foundation has an office there. We did a lot of work in Nigeria on polio and we learned a lot doing that. Nigeria has gone almost three years now without having a polio case.
So, Nigeria is important, I’m hopeful about Nigeria. As you see in the report, the disparities within Nigeria are quite stark. So, for example, in our family planning work, we go out multiple times a year and have women go around and talk to other women about: Did they have a stockout? Were they well educated? Did they feel they were being pushed to do something they weren’t comfortable with? And that feedback comes in and we can adjust the family planning educational activities on a very immediate basis.
There are countries that are the toughest are the ones that will remain. I don’t pretend it will be easy in those countries, because the governance, getting that to be good is a huge challenge. But even there, as we show in the report, we have seen progress.The UN General Assembly week in New York is really an opportunity for the world to step back and look at the progress at helping those most in need. And of course, the context for that is the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Countries that are interesting to look at include India and Nigeria where the districts that are the worst off are some of the toughest in the world, and the districts that are well off are actually almost exceeding developed country success. And so, not only do we need to take best practices from the best countries to the other countries, even within countries spreading best practices is going to make a big difference.
We also see opportunities to use new technology to achieve goals, whether that’s using cell phones to find out whether government services are being delivered, to help workers do their job, also to make sure we’re investing in breakthrough vaccines and drugs that can make a huge difference for a lot of the diseases that are mostly prevalent in the poorer countries.
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