UN Millennium Development Goals

Target date: 2015

Text adapted from:

United Nations Development Programme: http://www.UNDP.org (2002);

Millennium Development Goals Report 2005: The State of Food Insecurity in the World (FAO) 2005

UN Millennium Development Goals

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1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Target for 2015: Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger. – More than a billion people live on

less than $1 a day

– 800 million people do not have enough food to meet their energy needs

– ¼ of children under 5 in the developing world are malnourished

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Undernourishment

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2. Achieve universal primary education

• Target for 2015: Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school. – 115 million children do

not attend school, but the target is within reach.

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India classroom

Children out of school

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Youth Literacy

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Global Literacy

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3. Promote gender equality and empower women

• Target for 2015: Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education – Two-thirds of illiterates are

women

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Gender inequality in education

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Gender inequality in employment

• The rate of employment among women is two-thirds that of men.

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Gender inequality in government

• The proportion of seats in parliaments held by women is increasing – 16% worldwide

– About one third in • Argentina

• Mozambique

• South Africa

Luisa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique

                

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4. Reduce child mortality

• Target for 2015: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five – Every year nearly 11 million

young children die before their fifth birthday

• Equals 30,000 children a day• mainly from preventable illnesses• that number is down from 15

million in 1980.

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5. Improve maternal health

• Target for 2015: Reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women dying in childbirth. – In the developing world,

the risk of dying in childbirth is one in 48

• But virtually all countries now have safe motherhood programs.

– U.S. risk of dying in childbirth is one in 10,000

Nurse-midwife trainees, India

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Maternal Mortality (2005)

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6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Target for 2015: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

• and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. – Forty million people are

living with HIV– AIDS is the leading cause

of premature death in Sub-Saharan Africa

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People living with HIV AIDS

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HIV AIDS in Africa

• 25 Million Africans have HIV AIDS– 2/3 of worldwide AIDS

• 2 million deaths/year

• 12 million AIDS orphans

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Malaria

Mosquito netting: effective & inexpensive

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AIDS, Malaria and Hunger

HIV Education

• Some countries have shown that the spread of HIV can be stemmed.– Brazil

– Senegal

– Thailand

– Uganda

Uganda billboard

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7. Ensure environmental sustainability

• Targets:– Integrate the principles

of sustainable development into country policies and programs

– Reverse the loss of environmental resources.

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Reforestation project, West Africa

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Global Deforestation

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Safe Drinking Water

• Target: by 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water. – More than one billion people

lack access to safe drinking water

– During the 1990s, nearly one billion people gained access

to safe water

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Populations without access to safe drinking water

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Slum Dwellers

• Target: by 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.

New Delhi, India

Number of Urban Slum Dwellers

is Increasing

• Global urban population has surpassed rural population– Future increase in world population will

be in urban slums

• There are now 1 billion slum dwellers– 31% of urban populations worldwide– 71% of urban populations in Sub-

Saharan Africa

• Global urban population will grow to 6 billion by 2050– Will be 3.5 billion slum dwellers

Source: BBC 2003

Percentage of Global Slum Dwellers is declining

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Sanitation

• More than two billion people lack sanitation. – Half the developing

world

– During the 1990’s nearly one billion people gained access to sanitation.

Improving sanitation, East Africa

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Sanitation

8. Develop a global partnership for development

• Targets:– Develop further an

open trading and financial system

– includes a national and international commitment to good

• governance

• development

• poverty reduction

Uganda Parliament

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Special Needs

• Address the least developed countries’ special needs – Landlocked States

– Small island developing States

Haiti

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Youth

Develop decent and productive work for youth

Youth job training, S. Africa

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Affordable Drugs

• Provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries – In cooperation with

pharmaceutical companies

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Technology

• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies– Especially information

and communications technologies.

  

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Mobile Phones

Internet World Map (2007)

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Debt

• Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems– Many developing countries

spend more on debt service than on social services.

– Middle income countries benefit from increased trade

– Poorest countries benefit more from aid than trade

 

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Aid

MGD Progress 2010

Progress Toward MGD

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