The Millennium Development Goals

1. The Millennium Development Goals

2. Purpose of the United Nations • Maintain international peace and security • Maintain friendly relations among nations • Cooperate in solving international problems and promoting respect for human rights • To be a center for harmonizing actions of nations

3. How does it do that? • Provides the means to resolve international conflicts • Formulate policies on matters affecting a range of countries • Opportunity to balance global interdependence and national interests when addressing international problems • Create mechanisms to achieve social progress and development

4. MDG #1 – Eradicating Poverty and Hunger • By 2015, reduce the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day by half • By 2013, reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half • Assist people who cannot fulfill their basic needs such as food, water, clothing, and shelter • Poor harvest – dry landscape and harsh climate prevents crops from growing • Shortage of food • Affordability is an issue

5. MDG #1 – Continued… • Target 1.B: 
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

6. Goal #2 - Achieve Universal Primary Education • Ensure a full course of primary schooling for all boys and girls by 2015

7. Goal #3 – Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women • Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, and at all levels of education no later than 2015.

8. Goal # 4 - Reduce the Mortality Rate by two-thirds • Lower the number of children dying while they are very young • Disease – living in environments where there is not protection from germs such as breathing in unhealthy air • Malnutrition – lack of nutrients because of poor diet

9. Goal #5 – Reduce the maternal mortality ratio • Achieve access to reproductive health • Helping mother get the opportunity to see a doctor when they are pregnant • Regular check-ups • Proving them with medication

10. Goal #6 – Stop the spread of HIV/AIDs • Allowing people to get treatment • Lowering the cost of medication • Reverse the incidence of HIV/AIDs and other diseases

11. Goal #7 – Integrate principles of sustainable development • Reverse the loss of environmental resources • Reduce the loss of biodiversity • Provide people with sustainable access t safe drinking water and basic sanitation • Significant improvement in the lives of those people living in slums

12. Goal # 8 – An approach to development • Address special needs of least developed countries • Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries • Deal with the debt problems of developing countries • Partner with the private sector to make new technologies and information available