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

• 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

GOAL #1 ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

TARGETS1A. 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

GOAL #2 ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

TARGET2A. Ensure that, by 2015, children

everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

GOAL #3 PROMOTE GENDER EQUITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

TARGET3A. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and

secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education, no later than 2015

GOAL #4 REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

TARGET

4A. Reduce by 2/3 between 1990-2115, the under-five mortality rate

GOAL #5 IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

TARGET5A. Reduce by 3/4 between 1990-2015, the

maternal mortality ration

5B. Achieve by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

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

GOAL #7 ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

TARGET7A. 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

GOAL #8 DEVELOP A GLOBAL PATERNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

TARGET8A. 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

MGDs