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The Millennium Development Goals |
The Millennium Development Goals (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/) summarize the development goals agreed on at international conferences and world summits during the 1990s. At the end of the last century, world leaders distilled the key goals and targets in the Millennium Declaration (September 2000). The Declaration reaffirms universal values of human rights, equality, mutual respect and shared responsibility for the conditions of all peoples and seeks to redress globalization's hugely unequal benefits and governments' commit themselves to fulfilling their obligations by 2015. The Millennium Declaration (http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.pdf) signed by 147 Heads of State and Government.
Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives by the year 2015.
Goals and Targets |
Indicators |
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger |
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Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day |
1. Proportion of population below $1 per day (PPP-values) |
Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger |
4. Prevalence of underweight children (under five years of age) |
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education |
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Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling |
6. Net enrolment ratio in primary education |
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women |
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Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015 |
9. Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education |
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality |
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Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate |
13. Under-five mortality rate |
Goal 5: Improve maternal health |
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Target 6: Reduce by threequarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio |
16. Maternal mortality ratio |
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases |
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Target 7: Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS |
18. HIV prevalence among 15-24 year old pregnant women |
Target 8: Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases |
21. Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria |
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability |
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Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources |
25. Proportion of land area covered by forest |
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water |
29. Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source |
Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers |
30. Proportion of people with access to improved sanitation |
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development* |
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Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction – both nationally and internationally Target 13: Address the Special Needs of the Least Developed Countries Includes: tariff and quota free access for LDC exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction Target 14: Address the Special Needs of landlocked countries and small island developing states (through Barbados Programme and 22nd General Assembly provisions) Target 15: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term |
Some of the indicators listed below will be monitored separately for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Africa, landlocked countries and small island developing states. Official Development Assistance Market Access Debt Sustainability |
Target 16: In co-operation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth |
45. Unemployment rate of 15-24 year olds |
Target 17: In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries |
46. Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis |
Target 18: In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications |
47. Telephone lines per 1000 people |
* The selection of indicators for Goals 7 and 8 is subject to further refinement |
Millennium Development Goals: Progress Report (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/background.html)
Secretary-General's MDG Report (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/documents.html)
Articles on Millennium Development Goals (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/newsroom.html)
Source
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ , http://www.isdronline.com/mdg.asp and http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/news/MDGs/MDGs_IPO_campaign1.htm