MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS A GLOBAL APPROACH
TO ENDING POVERTY
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight
international development goals that all 192
United Nations member states and at least 23
international organizations have agreed to
achieve by the year 2015
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• The MDGs originated from the Millennium
  Declaration produced by the UN
• The Declaration asserts that every individual has
  the right to dignity, freedom, equality, a basic
  standard of living that includes freedom from
  hunger and violence, and encourages tolerance and
  solidarity
• They derive from earlier international
  development targets
• officially established following the Millennium
  Summit in 2000, where all world leaders present
  adopted the UN Millennium Declaration from which
  the eight goals were derived by a group headed by
  Jeffrey Sachs

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GOAL 1 ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY HUNGER

• TARGETS
• 1A. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion
  of people whose income is less than 1 a day
• 1B. Achieve full and productive employment and
  decent work for all, including women and young
  people
• 1C. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion
  of people who suffer from hunger

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GOAL 2 ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

• TARGET
• 2A. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere,
  boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a
  full course of primary schooling

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GOAL 3 PROMOTE GENDER EQUITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

• TARGET
• 3A. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
  secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in
  all levels of education, no later than 2015

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GOAL 4 REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

• TARGET
• 4A. Reduce by 2/3 between 1990-2115, the
  under-five mortality rate

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GOAL 5 IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

• TARGET
• 5A. Reduce by 3/4 between 1990-2015, the
  maternal mortality ration
• 5B. Achieve by 2015, universal access to
  reproductive health

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GOAL 6 COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA OTHER DISEASES

• TARGET
• 6A. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the
  spread of HIV/AIDS
• 6B. Achieve by 2010, universal access to
  treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
• 6C. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the
  incidence of malaria and other major diseases

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GOAL 7 ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

• TARGET
• 7A. Integrate the principles of sustainable
  development into country policies and programmes
  and reverse the loss of environmental resources
• 7B. Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by
  2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
• 7C. Halve by 2015, the proportion of the
  population without sustainable access to safe
  drinking water and basic sanitation
• 7D. By 2020, to have achieved a significant
  improvement in the lives of at least 100 million
  slum dwellers

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GOAL 8 DEVELOP A GLOBAL PATERNERSHIP FOR
DEVELOPMENT

• TARGET
• 8A. Address the special needs of the least
  developed countries, landlocked countries and
  small island developing states
• 8B. Develop further an open, rule-based,
  predictable, non-discriminatory trading and
  financial system
• 8C. Deal comprehensively with developing
  countries debt
• 8D. In cooperation with the private sector, make
  available the benefits of new technologies,
  especially information and communications

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MGDs