Empowering People through Education from the Perspective of Millennium Development Goals

Abstract

Education plays a significant role in people's empowerment which ultimately leads to sustainable development in any country. Therefore, this crucial position held by the education has become a universal acceptance. Further, as revealed by the South Asian Development Report, if the men and women are not empowered by the education and the health, the sustainability won't be a reality (2004).Moreover, it has emphasized the education as one of essential components of growth process. Generally, the term empowerment refers to a multi-dimensional social process that enhance diverse of human capabilities. Further it is relevant to all the aspects that boost competences of human beings which are crucial for the development. Empowering people can be varied from the individual level to the community level. Even more it can go beyond the community level reaching up to the international level. Therefore, it is imperative to study how people can be empowered through the education since education is recognized as a key player of the human empowerment. Main objective of this study is to explore the potential of education to empower people as human development is considered as one of central pillars of development. Concurrently, this study aims to examine the applicability of the Millennium Development Goals to such scenario focusing on its most apposite segments. Mainly this research would be an archival research which would base on secondary sources. Additionally, the study would focus on the United Nations reports and statistics. This research finds that education is an indispensable factor regarding empowering people .Further; this research reveals that human empowerment is a multi-commitment task which is directly applicable to development process. Concurrent to that, this research has highlighted the relevance of the Millennium Development Goals to the implementation of empowering people through education. Moreover, this study finds that empowering people through education can generate apparatus required for the development process leading to profound social changes at both personal and societal level.