Millennium Development Goals United Nations What are MDGs

Millennium Development Goals United Nations

What are MDGs? There are eight Millenium Development Goals for international development. All 193 member states and 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by 2015 The goals deal with large international issues: ◦ What kind of issues are they? Ideas?

History ◦ ◦ ◦ Millennium Summit September 2000, UN Headquarters Help poorest countries improve standard of living by 2015 Millennium Declaration Where the MDGs came from

Goal #1: Cut in half the percent of people living on less than $1. 25 a day (≈1€) Achieve Decent Employment for Women, Men, and Young People Cut in half the percent of people who suffer from hunger

Goal #2 By 2015, all children can complete a full course of primary schooling, girls and boys ◦ Enrollment in primary education ◦ Completion of primary education ◦ Literacy of 15 -24 year olds, female and male

Goal #3 Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 ◦ Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education ◦ Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector ◦ Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

Goal #4 Target 4 A: Reduce (lower) by twothirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

Goal # 5 Target 5 A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio ◦ Maternal mortality ratio ◦ Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel Target 5 B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

Goal #6 Have halted (ended) by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Goal #7 Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss

Goal #7 (continued) Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers

Goal #8 : Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system Target 8 B: Address the Special Needs of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Target 8 C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States

Goal #8 (continued) Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term Target 8 E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries Target 8 F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications