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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS – A GLOBAL APPROACH TO ENDING POVERTY

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.

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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS – A GLOBAL APPROACH TO ENDING POVERTY

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  1. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS – A GLOBAL APPROACH TO ENDING POVERTY

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. GOAL #4 REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY TARGET 4A. Reduce by 2/3 between 1990-2115, the under-five mortality rate

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. MGDs

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