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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS – A GLOBAL APPROACH
TO ENDING POVERTY
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
• 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
GOAL #1 ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER
TARGETS1A. 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
GOAL #2 ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
TARGET2A. Ensure that, by 2015, children
everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
GOAL #3 PROMOTE GENDER EQUITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
TARGET3A. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education, no later than 2015
GOAL #4 REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
TARGET
4A. Reduce by 2/3 between 1990-2115, the under-five mortality rate
GOAL #5 IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
TARGET5A. Reduce by 3/4 between 1990-2015, the
maternal mortality ration
5B. Achieve by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
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
GOAL #7 ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
TARGET7A. 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
GOAL #8 DEVELOP A GLOBAL PATERNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
TARGET8A. 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
MGDs