The government has adopted a fast-track approach to meet the millennium development goals as indicators have shown Yemen is out of the path to achieve the MDGs by 2015.

Yemen is facing major challenges boosting its failure to achieve the MDGs by 2015 including huge financial requirements required to approach the MDGs amid limited resource and struggle to address other big challenges.

A governmental report titled" Yemen's fast-tracking to achieve the millennium development goals 2015" said the approach is a five-year integrated programme and executive plan including priorities chosen within the MDGs topped by poverty reduction and improving standards of living, especially among the poorest groups.

The programme comes after experiences of some countries seeking to approach the MDGs, the report said.

The relationship between the fast track and the fourth five-year economic and social development plan 2011-2015 is that the first is an ingredient of the plan whose top priority is to reduce poverty.

However, the fast track approach is much efficient to make remarkable progress towards the MDGs as it will help adjust the MDGs to the plan targets, the report said.

The new approach set out supervision and evaluation mechanisms, set the implementation timetable and the costs, suggested equivalent solutions and treatments and identified priority goals and key bottlenecks.

The report noted that the fast track objectives ensure achieving the eight goals as whole and rule out only some can be met.

The three key axes of the approach are: poverty reduction and promoting development partnership, spreading primary education and improving gender equality, healthcare overhaul and achieving environmental sustainability.

The government aims to reduce poverty by 10 per cent to 32.3 per cent and the rate of those who live in food insecurity including those with insufficient food to 22.6 per cent, and to increase soft loan and assistance average per capita to US 44.

Under the second axis, it aims to spread primary education to 93 per cent among the students in the first six grades and to 79.4 per cent among the students in the next three grades as well as reducing the gender gap between students to 87 per cent.

In addition, the government plans to reduce the population growth rate to 2.5 per cent and to increase healthcare coverage by 75 per cent.

In addition, the mortality rate among the children under five will be reduced to 40 per cent per thousand children, mother mortality rate to 88 per 100000 giving birth mothers, malaria deaths to 1 per cent of the registered cases, and AIDS spread to .2 per cent and the spread of tuberculosis and schistosomiasis.

Under the second axis, the government will reduce alarming water consumption and create effective water resources management; help better use water through increasing arable land and developing irrigation ways; reduce the rate of the people who can't get safe water; and improve sanitary services in urban and rural areas.