Kingdom of Bahrain

MDG Progress Work 2004 - 2007 in Kingdom of Bahrain:
The Kingdom of Bahrain believes in the importance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), since they correspond to its foundations and objectives. In the process of progressing towards achieving the MDGs, Bahrain takes into consideration the special circumstances and conditions, human and economic capacities, and degree of development reached.

MDG Kingdom of Bahrain 2003:
This is the First Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which the Bahraini Government wrote in cooperation with the United Nations, detailing the country’s progress toward achieving the MDGs. The Report reveals that the Government has made significant progress in most areas and is potentially on track on all of them. However, certain goals, especially in the areas of HIV/AIDS and women’s advancement need to be monitored to prevent them from becoming major concerns in the future.

Bahrain Human Development Report 2000:
The report details the development challenges facing Bahrain at the turn of the millennium. Outstanding issues include the need for a higher than average GDP growth rate and investment in human resource development. Although high achievements in education have been made, it has not translated to sustainable employment prospects particularly amongst recent graduates.
Bahrain has made significant gains in health as a direct result of the priority assigned to health programmes since the 1950s. Despite progress in the area of women’s advancement, the challenge remains to exert more intensive efforts to enlarge women’s economic and professional opportunities.
The report concludes that since human development is a multidimensional, inter related and complex phenomenon, maximum use should be made of Bahraini cultural specificity and distinct body of tradition as far as they enhance, reinforce and sustain such development.