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The Crisis

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world live on less than a dollar a day. Another 1.8 billion struggle to survive on less than $2 per day.

EDUCATION: Around the world, a total of 114 million children do not get even a basic education and 584 million women are illiterate.

HEALTH: Life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa is less than 55 years – and dropping.

WATER AND SANITATION: Four out of every ten people in the world don't have access even to a simple latrine; and two in ten have no source of safe drinking water.

If the Goals are achieved:

More than 500 million people will be lifted out of extreme poverty and 250 million will no longer suffer from hunger.

30 million children will be saved who would otherwise die before reaching age 5 and 2 million maternal deaths will have been averted.

350 million people will have access to safe drinking water and 650 million people will have access to basic sanitation

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The Action

At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to reduce poverty; improve health; and promote peace, human rights, and environmental sustainability.

The Millennium Development Goals set out a mutual commitment between developed and developing countries to make sustained progress towards achieving this vision.

Specifically, the Millennium Development Goals aim to reduce poverty, fight disease and hunger, get girls in school and give more people access to safe water. African countries need to make the most progress if they are to meet these Goals.

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The Action

2005: The Breakthrough YearThe Millennium Development Goals can be achieved by 2015, even in the poorest countries, if swift, strategic action is in place in 2005.

The world already has affordable tools to win this fight, such as:

– Bed-nets to fight malaria– Vaccinations against disease– Antiretroviral therapies to treat AIDS– Fertilizers and agro-forestry to raise crop

yields– Bore wells to provide drinking water– Diesel generators for village electricity.

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The Millennium Development Goals

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Goal 6: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

The MDGs are the world’s first shared set of integrated, quantitative and time-bound goals for poverty reduction

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The UN Millennium ProjectHow We Work

Mission: To develop a practical plan for rich and poor countries to meet the MDGs by 2015

Structure:

Commissioned by UN Secretary-General and directed by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs

Analysis performed by 10 thematically-oriented Task Forces with a total of 265 global experts, including: researchers and scientists; policymakers; NGO representatives, UN agencies, the World Bank, IMF and the private sector.

Country level advisory work began in 2004 with eight pilot countries: Ethiopia, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tajikistan, and Yemen

The UN Millennium Project ends on June 30, 2005

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The UN Millennium Project Task Forces

Task Force Task Force Coordinators

1-Poverty and Economic Development Jeffrey D. Sachs, USAMari Pangestu, Indonesia

2-Hunger Pedro Sanchez, USAM.S. Swaminathan, India

3-Education and Gender Equality Nancy Birdsall, USAAmina J. Ibrahim, NigeriaGeeta Rao Gupta, India

4-Child Health and Maternal Health Mushtaque Chowdhury, BangladeshAllan Rosenfield, USA

5-HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines

Agnes Binagwaho, RwandaJaap Broekmans, The NetherlandsPaula Munderi, UgandaJosh Ruxin, USA

6-Environmental Sustainability Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro, EcuadorJeff McNeely, CanadaDon Melnick, USA

7-Water and Sanitation Roberto Lenton, ArgentinaAlbert Wright, Ghana

8-Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers Pietro Garau, ItalyElliot Sclar, USA

9-Trade Patrick Messerlin, FranceErnesto Zedillo, Mexico

10-Science, Technology and Innovation Yee-Lee Cheong, MalaysiaCalestous Juma, Kenya

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The UN Millennium Project Recommends:

Developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for 2015. We term such plans MDG-based Poverty Reduction Strategies (MDG-based PRSs). In order to meet the targets for 2015, we recommend that countries have these strategies in place by the end of 2006. Where Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) already exist, they should be aligned with the MDGs.

International donors should identify at least a dozen “MDG fast-track” countries for a rapid scale-up of ODA in 2005. Many countries are already capable, due to their good governance and absorptive capacity, of a massive scale-up in ODA.

Developed and developing countries should jointly launch in 2005, a group of “quick win” actions to save and improve millions of lives and to promote economic growth. They should also launch a massive effort to build expertise at the community level.

High-income countries should increase ODA from 0.25 percent of donor GNP in 2003 to around 0.44 percent in 2006 and 0.54 percent in 2015 to support the MDGs. Donors should also focus on improving ODA quality (including making aid harmonized, predictable, and largely focused on budgetary support). Each donor should reach 0.7 percent of GNP by no later than 2015. Debt relief should be more extensive and generous.

The UN Secretary-General and the UN Development Group should strengthen the coordination of UN agencies, funds and programs in support of the MDGs, both at the headquarters and country level. The UN Country Teams should be strengthened and should work closely with international financial institutions to support the MDGs.

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Priority InterventionsSome Quick Wins could bring vital gains in well-being to millions of people and start countries on

the path to the Goals. With adequate resources, the Quick Wins include:

Eliminating school and uniform fees to ensure that all children, especially girls, are not out of school because of their families’ poverty.

Providing impoverished sub-Saharan farmers with affordable replenishment of soil nitrogen and soil nutrients.

Providing free school meals for all poor children using locally produced foods with take-home rations.

Training large numbers of village workers in health, farming, and infrastructure (in one-year programs), in order to ensure basic expertise and services in rural communities.

Distributing free long-lasting insecticide-treated bed-nets to all children in malaria-endemic zones.

Eliminating user fees for basic health services in all developing countries.

Expanding use of proven effective drug combinations for AIDS, TB, and malaria.

Setting up funding to finance community-based slum upgrading and earmarking idle public land for low-cost housing.

Providing access to electricity, water, sanitation, and the Internet for all hospitals, schools, and other social service institutions using off-grid diesel generators, solar panels, or other appropriate technologies.

Launching national campaigns to reduce violence against women.

Establishing, in each country, an office of science advisor to the president or prime minister.

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Key Costing Facts

The UN Millennium Project has discovered that the cost of meeting the MDGs is less than what wealthy nations have already promised to

contribute in development assistance.

At the Monterrey Financing for Development Conference in 2002, world leaders pledged “to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7%” of their GNP in international aid. In today’s dollars, that would amount to almost $200 billion.

In 2003, total aid from the 22 richest countries to the world’s developing countries was $69 billion—a shortfall of $130 billion dollars from the 0.7% promise.

The cost of supporting countries to meet the Goals would require donors to increase ODA to 0.44% of GNP by 2006 (or $135 billion) and to plan for a scale-up to 0.54% by 2015 (or $195 billion).

This means that of the combined rich world GNP of approximately $30 trillion dollars, only an average of $150 billion a year would be enough to get the world on track to ending extreme poverty throughout the world.

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2005: The Breakthrough Year

LAUNCHING A DECADE OF BOLD AMBITION

There is still enough time to meet the MDGs – though barely. With a systematic approach over the next decade, many countries now dismissed as too poor or too far off track could still achieve the Goals, but only if the world moves urgently with specific, scaled-up actions. Immediate action is needed to train of enough doctors and engineers, strengthen service delivery capacity, and construct improved infrastructure.

To launch the decade of bold ambition towards 2015, several worldwide initiatives are needed to translate the Goals from ambition to action:

Identify fast-track countries Prepare MDG-based poverty reduction strategies Launch a global human resource training effort Launch the Quick Win initiatives Engage middle-income countries in the challenge of meeting the MDGs