Millennium Development Goals

1. Millennium Development Goals

2. Millennium Development Goals • UN Millennium Summit 2000 • Promises to which 189 states agreed • Forcing countries to do more for the poor • 8 goals and 18 targets

3. World Progress • Between 1990 and 2002 average overall incomes increased by approximately 21 percent. • The number of people in extreme poverty declined by an estimated 130 million falling from 40% to 21% • Child mortality rates fell from 103 deaths per 1,000 live births a year to 88. • Life expectancy rose from 63 years to nearly 65 years. • An additional 8 percent of the developing world's people received access to water. And an additional 15 percent acquired access to improved sanitation services. • Many regions, especially large parts of East Asia and South Asia, experienced dramatic economic and social progress. • Moreover, between 1990 and 2001, under-five mortality rates fell from 103 deaths per 1,000 live births a year to 88.

4. Millennium Goal 1 Poverty and Hunger cut in half the number of people who live on less than one US dollar a day and who suffer from hunger

5. World trade has increased tenfold since 1970 – more food is produced than ever before, yet the number of people going hungry in Africa has doubled. • More than 800 million people go hungry every day. • At current rates of progress, it would take 130 years to rid the world of hunger

6. Millennium Goal 2 Education make sure that all children start and finish primary school

7. Global enrolment in primary education increased from 596 million in 1990 to 648 million children in 2000. But there are still 100 million children worldwide who are not in school. More than half of whom are girls. 90 million of these are in Asia or sub-Saharan Africa.

9. Universal primary education – every child just getting basic schooling – would cost $10 billion a year, less than the US spends on ice cream! At the current rate of progress on just 1 of the MDGs – Primary education for all – Kylie Minogue will be 162 years old when the target is reached

11. Millennium Goal 3 Girls be sure that as many girls as boys go to school

12. Women account for two thirds of the 1.2 billion people currently living in extreme poverty • Almost two thirds of world’s illiterate people are women • Each year more than 500,000 women die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth • Women account for 48% of the 40 million people currently infected with HIV

14. Millennium Goal 4 Infants cut back by two-thirds the number of children who die before they reach the age of five

15. Nearly 11 million under 5’s are dying each year • In sub-Saharan Africa, child mortality rates are running average 172 deaths per 1,000 compared with 9 per 1,000 in developed regions • Major causes of deaths for under 5’s in sub-Saharan Africa include malaria, acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea and AIDS

17. On current indicators a child born in Zambia today has less chance of surviving past age 30 than a child born in 1840 in England

18. Millennium Goal 5 Mothers cut back by three-quarters the number of women who die when they are having babies

19. A poor woman in the poorest countries is over 200 times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than a woman in a developed country • Up to 80% of maternal deaths are directly caused by just 5 common obstretic complications: bleeding, infection, complications of abortion, high blood pressure and prolonged or obstructed labour • Up to 2 million children each year are orphaned because their mother has died

21. Worldwide, a woman dies every minute from complications associated with having a baby. 99% of these deaths are in the developing world

22. Reproductive health services for all women – making childbirth safer – would cost $12 billion a year, which is what we currently spend on perfume in Europe and the US

23. Millennium Goal 6 Disease stop terrible diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, from spreading and make them less common

24. Over 37.8 million are living with HIV. Over 20 million have already died since the first AIDS cases in 1981 • In hardest hit countries, life expectancy will fall to 30 years by 2010 • In 1999, an estimated 860,000 African children lost their teachers to AIDS

25. Over 3 million people died from AIDS in 2004. 2.3 million of those were in sub-Saharan Africa. That amounts to 8,493 people dying from AIDS every day and 6 people dying every minute

27. Basic healthcare and nutrition would cost $13 billion a year. Europe and the US currently spend $17 billion a year on pet food

28. Millennium Goal 7 Environment cut in half the number of people who lack clean water, improve the lives of people who live in slums, and promote policies that respect the goods of creation

29. How many children do you know who have died from drinking water? In the developing world, a child dies every 15 seconds from water related diseases. These deaths are entirely preventable.

31. Major threats from climate change: reduced annual rainfall, increased temperature and rainfall variability, increased risk of flooding and/or drought, and sea level rise • Water consumption per person is 10 times higher in developed countries than in developing countries • Forests were being cut down at the rate of more than 9 million hectares a year during the 1990’s, equivalent to losing 2.4% of the total forested area each year

33. Millennium Goal 8 Global Partnership promote greater cooperation among all nations with special concern for fairer deals for poor countries in trade, aid, debt, new technologies, etc.

34. Success rate of the MDGs • The number and proportion of undernourished children are rising in many countries in Sub- Saharan Africa, while falling elsewhere. • In primary education progress is being made in most regions, but sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are still significantly off track. • Gender equality remains an unfulfilled goal, and the education parity target for 2005 will be missed in many countries, especially in Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia. • Child mortality rates have generally declined, but progress has slowed in many parts of the world, and reversals are being recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa. Progress has also been limited in East Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Oceania, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. • Maternal mortality remains unacceptably high in every developing region, reflecting low public attention to women’s needs and inadequate access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including emergency obstetric care. • HIV/AIDS now infects about 40 million people. It is pandemic in southern Sub-Saharan Africa, and it poses a serious threat, particularly to women and adolescents, in every other developing region. • The world is not on track to meet the sanitation goal. Progress has been too slow in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and much of the rest of Asia.

35. Quick Wins – suggestions for the future (1) • Eliminating school and uniform fees to ensure that all children, especially girls, are not out of school because of their families’ poverty. • Providing impoverished farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with affordable replenishments of soil nitrogen and other soil nutrients. • Providing free school meals for all children using locally produced foods with take-home rations. • Expanding access to sexual and reproductive health information and services, including family planning and contraceptive information and services, and closing existing funding gaps for supplies and logistics. • Designing community nutrition programs for pregnant and lactating women and children under five that support breastfeeding, provide access to locally produced complementary foods and, where needed, provide micronutrient (especially zinc and vitamin A) supplementation.

36. Quick Wins – suggestions for the future (2) • Distributing free, long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed-nets to all children in malaria-endemic zones to cut decisively the burden of malaria. • Eliminating user fees for basic health services in all developing countries, financed by increased domestic and donor resources for health. • Expanding the use of proven effective drug combinations for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. For AIDS, this includes successfully completing the 3 by 5 initiative to bring anti-retrovirals to 3 million people by 2005. • Setting up funding to finance community-based slum upgrading and earmark idle public land for low-cost housing. • Providing access to electricity, water, sanitation, and the Internet for all hospitals, schools, and other social service institutions using off-grid diesel generators, solar panels, or other appropriate technologies. • Reforming and enforcing legislation guaranteeing women property and inheritance rights.

37. “Thank you for your support. Please don’t forget us” “Thank you for your support. Please don’t forget us”

38. “To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out” – Arundhati Roy, author and Indian activist

39. 5MDGThings To Do • Organise an MDG-focused event in your school/youth club (an assembly, workshop (s), peer education) • Participate in the MDG Youth Forum (tbc: Nov 2005) • Organise/deliver an art-focused MDG project in your school/community, document the process and share it (www.developmenteducation.ie) • Lobbying on the follow-up to the 2005 UN Summit • Form an MDG group in your school/community