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                                                Millennium Development Goals

 

Introducing the TWB Millennium Development Initiative

The Teachers Without Borders Millennium Development Initiative (MDI) has emerged as a response to the year 2000 United Nations Millennium Summit, which brought together world leaders from over 185 nations to New York. The Millennium Summit led to the Millennium Declaration, which have been translated into the Millennium Development Goals. Since then, the United Nations have been working through its network in all nations and continents to ensure the realization of the MDGs in every nation by 2015. The United Nations has also called on every sector of human affairs to contribute to the realization of the MDGs. Click here to  Become a Millenium Development Ambassador

UN Millennium Development Goals

GOAL 1:  ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER

Fact:  Well over 1.4 billion people in developing countries live in extreme poverty

Ø       Halve, between 1990-2015, the % of people whose income is less than 1 dollar a day

Ø       Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suff­er from hunger

GOAL 2:  ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

Fact: 115 million primary school age children remain out of school

Ø       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 EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Facts:  When a country educates both its boys and its girls, economic productivity tends to rise, maternal and infant mortality rates usually fall, fertility rates decline, and the health and education prospects of the next generation improve

Ø       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

Fact: Every year almost 11 million children in developing countries die before age ­five

Ø       Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the number of children 5 years old or younger who die from preventable illnesses

GOAL 5:  IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

Fact: More than 500,000 women die each year in childbirth, most of them in developing countries

Ø       Reduce by 3/4, between 1990 and 2015, the number of women who die giving birth


GOAL 6:  COMBATE HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES

Fact: Worldwide, 39.5 million adults and children are living with HIV/AIDS and almost 4.3 million new infections each year

Fact: There are 300 to 500 million cases of malaria each year, leading to more than 1 million deaths; Tuberculosis kills 2 million people a year, range: 15 to 45 years old

Ø       Have halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases by 2015

GOAL 7:  ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY

Fact: 1 billion people still do not have access to safe drinking water, and 2.5 billion lack access to basic sanitation services

Ø       Integrate principles of environmental sustainable development into country policies

Ø       Reduce the loss of environmental and biodiversity resources

Ø       Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe
drinking water and basic sanitation

Ø       By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

GOAL 8:  DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

Fact: Official development assistance (ODA) continued to drop »» from an all-time high of $107.1 billion in 2005, to $103.7 billion in 2007

Ø       Develop an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading system

Ø       Address the special needs of the Least Developed Countries (LDC)

Ø       Address the special needs of landlocked countries/small island states

Ø       Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries

Ø       Develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth

Ø       Provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries

Ø       Make available the benefi­ts of new technologies, especially ICTs

 For more details visit the Teachers Without Borders Millenium Development Ambassadors Program