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Millennium D evelopment G oals

Millennium D evelopment G oals. By Karlene Ormsby. Goal one: Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty. Australia has addressed these issues by: D onating $464 million dollars to an initiative. Lifting the agricultural productivity. By improving rural livelihoods

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Millennium D evelopment G oals

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  1. Millennium Development Goals By Karlene Ormsby

  2. Goal one: Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty Australia has addressed these issues by: • Donating $464 million dollars to an initiative. • Lifting the agricultural productivity. • By improving rural livelihoods • Building community resilence.

  3. Goal two: achieve universal primary education Australia has addressed these issues by: • improve the functioning of national education systems to enable more girls and boys to complete primary school and progress to higher levels of education • improve the relevance and quality of education, including in vocational and technical education, so students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for life and productive employment.

  4. Goal three: promote gender equality and empower women. Australia has addressed these issues by: • By improving the health and wellbeing of • In east Timor, many woman and children benefited from better access to drinking water through AusAidsupport. • providing policy makers and health workers with a tool to help them respond in a practical way to the many economic, social, legal, political and cultural disadvantages women with HIV/AIDS face. • In Fiji, Australian support has helped give women who have been subjected to violence somewhere to go to get help.

  5. Goal four: reduce child morality • supported the work of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital • women and children on the outer islands of Kiribati gained better access to health care through a joint Australia, United Nations Population Fund and the European Union assisted program. • In Bangladesh, Australia has helped more children to attend school. • Improving child nutrition has been an important part of Australia's fight against child mortality in the region. • Australia has helped deliver successful child vaccination programs in developing countries over the past decade

  6. Goal five: improve maternal health • Australia has supported the training of birth attendants and midwives in the Asia-Pacific region over the past ten years. • Programs to improve health services in remote areas have helped give rural women better health support.

  7. Goal six: combat HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES • targeting major causes of child and maternal mortality and morbidity • making a strong contribution in the family planning and reproductive health sector on the basis of a voluntary and non-coercive policy • improving HIV prevention and care activities.

  8. GOAL SEVEN: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY • Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources

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