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Millennium Development Goals

In September 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to a set of timebound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. Placed at the heart of global agenda, they are now called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The Goals offer the world a means to accelerate the pace of development and to measure results.

 

Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015


Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

   

Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger


 

Achieve universal primary education

   
Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
 

Promote gender equality and empower women

   
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
 

Reduce child mortality

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Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
 

Improve maternal health

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Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
 

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

   
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

 

Ensure environmental sustainability
   
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020


 

Develop a global partnership for development
   
Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies

 
 
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