| ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER |
Awareness
1,3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day.
Target:
- Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
- Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including woman and young people
- Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
| ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION |
Awareness
Worldwide, one in every five children has no access to primary education.
Target:
- Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a ful course of primary schooling
| PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN |
Awareness
There are an estimated 771 million illiterate adults in the world, of whom about two-thirds are women.
Target:
- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Awareness
11 million children under the age of five die every year from preventable diseases.
Target:
- Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
Awareness
For a woman, the lifetime risk of loosing a newborn baby is now 1 in 5 in Africa, compared to 1 in 125 in more developed countries.
Target:
- Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
- Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
| COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES |
Awareness
An estimated 38.6 million people worldwide were living with HIV in 2005. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to almost 64% of all people living with HIV - 24.5 million.
Target:
- Have halted 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
| ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY |
Awareness
Near a person in five in the world has still no access to drinking water. 40% of the world population do not take advantage of the system of basic purification
Target:
- Intergrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
- Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
- 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
| DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT |
Awareness
From 1990 till 2001, the official development assistance from donor countries declined from 0.34% of their Gross National Income to 0.22%
Target:
- Address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states
- Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
- Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt
- In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at a glance:
Most people in the world are unaware of the 8 Goals and how far we are from achieving their set purpose of eradicating extreme poverty by 2015. The foundation focuses its efforts on raising public awareness, through awareness campaigns, and providing a platform for individual social action, through partnerships on MDG related projects.
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What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development.
In 2001, recognizing the need to assist impoverished nations more aggressively, UN member states adopted the targets. The MDGs aim to spur development by improving social and economic conditions in the world's poorest.
They derive from earlier international development targets, and were officially established at the Millennium Summit in 2000, where all world leaders present adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, from which the eight goals were promoted.
