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
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