Millennium Development Goals (MDG)



At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders pledged themselves to a landmark Millennium Declaration to make the world of the twenty-first century a safer and better place. Member states committed to a set of time-defined development goals – the Millennium Development Goals – that call for national action, and international cooperation, to provide access to food, education, healthcare and economic opportunities for children, women and men everywhere.

1. Goal One: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than 1 $ a day
• By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
2. Goal Two: Achieve universal primary education
• By 2015, ensure a full course of primary schooling for boys and girls alike
3. Goal Three: Promote gender equality and empower women
• By 2005, eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education; and at all levels of education no later than 2015
4. Goal Four: Reduce child mortality
• By 2015, reduce by two-thirds the number of children dying under age five
5. Goal Five: Improve maternal health
• By 2015, reduce by three quarters the number of women dying from complications of pregnancy and childbirth
6. Goal Six: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• By 2015, halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• By 2015, halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
 7. Goal Seven: Ensure environmental sustainability
• By 2015, halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water
• By 2020, achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
 8. Goal Eight: Develop a global partnership for development
• Address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing States
• Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especiall information and communications technologies
 
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