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The Millennium Declaration and Development Goals: A Blueprint for ProgressIn September of 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders in human history gathered for the Millennium Summit at United Nations headquarters in New York. In that pivotal year, representatives from 189 Member States of the United Nations met to reflect on their common destiny. The nations were interconnected as never before, with increased globalization promising faster growth, higher living standards and new opportunities.Yet their citizens’ lives were starkly disparate. As some States looked ahead to prosperity and global cooperation, many barely had a future, being mired in miserable, unending conditions of poverty, conflict and a degraded environment. Some 1.1 billion people were – and still are – forced to live on less than $1 a day, and 30 per cent of these are children. Even in the world’s richest countries, one in every six children still lives below the national poverty line. A further look at humanity’s challenges: Almost 11 million children, more than 29,000 a day, die before the age of five, mostly from preventable causes. Those that survive suffer other consequences: malnutrition leading to stunting and disability, a lack of access to health care and education, and an increased risk of suffering from exploitation, violence and HIV/AIDS.A UNICEF-sponsored study by the University of Bristol and the London School of Economics concluded that over 1 billion children –more than half the children in developing countries – suffer from at least one form of severe deprivation. Such as:*One in every three children in the developing world – over 500 million children – has no access whatsoever to sanitation facilities; one in five has no access to safe water. *Over 140 million children in developing countries – 13 per cent of those aged 7 to 18 years – have never attended school. This rate is 32 per cent among girls in sub-Saharan Africa, where 27 per cent of boys also miss out on schooling, and 33 per cent among rural children in the Middle East and North Africa.*AIDS has killed one or both parents of an estimated 15 million children worldwide; 12 million of these are in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of orphaned children is projected to exceed 25 million by the end of the decade. (UNAIDS, July 2004)To begin addressing these crises back in 2000, the convened leaders set down the Millennium Declaration, a series of collective priorities for peace and security, poverty reduction, the environment and human rights – essential steps for the advancement of humankind, as well as for the immediate survival for a significant portion of it. Human development, they agreed, is the key to sustaining social and economic progress in all countries, as well as contributing to global security. But how would the world community achieve these priorities? Following further meetings with many world agencies, the delegation also drew up a blueprint for a better future: the Millennium Development Goals. By 2015, the leaders pledged, the world would achieve measurable improvements in the most critical areas of human development. The goals establish yardsticks for measuring these results, not just for developing countries but for countries that help to fund development programmes and for the multilateral institutions, like the World Bank or the United Nations Development Programme, that help countries implement them.The Millennium Development Goals Set Priorities for ChildrenThough the Goals are for all humankind, they are primarily about children. Why:Because six of the eight goals relate directly to children. Meeting the last two will also make critical improvements in their lives. Because meeting the Goals is most critical for children. Children are most vulnerable when people lack essentials like food, water, sanitation and health care. They are the first to die when basic needs are not met.Because children have rights. Each child is born with
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“If we are to meet the goals of ‘A World Fit forChildren’ and attain the Millennium DevelopmentGoals...we will only do so with the fullparticipation of children and young people.”
Carol BellamyFormer UNICEF Executive Director
“We must do more than talk about our future...We must start to create it, now.”
Kofi A. AnnanSecretary-General of the United Nations
THE MILLENNIUMDEVELOPMENT GOALSThey are about children
IntroductionBoys and Girls,
UNICEF believes that the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium DevelopmentGoals (MDGs) are the only way that we can achieve “A World Fit for Children.” Many of the Millennium Development Goals, outlined in this booklet for you, talkabout the need for each and every child to have access to such basic human rightsas health, education and protection. UNICEF is working with youth like you aroundthe globe to make sure that we achieve the vision laid out in both the declaration andthe MDGs. We have translated this booklet into four Ethiopian languages and havewritten it in such a way that we hope it will be easy for you to understand what weall are striving towards, because we need your help. Only by working together canwe make the world a better place for all. We dedicate this book to you, the childrenof Ethiopia, because you are both the present and the future and the key to helpingus realise the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs.
Bjorn LjungqvistUNICEF Ethiopia Representative
To Teachers throughout Ethiopia,
As part of their development efforts, UN Member States have pledged their supportfor the Millennium Declaration and to meet eight objectives known as the MillinniumDevelopment Goals (MDGs) by the year 2015. Six of these goals are directly relatedto children. In addition, these initiatives are closely linked to the major commitmentsmade at the UN Special Session on Children held in New York in 2002 andarticulated in “A World Fit for Children” stating that all Governments will work topromote and protect the rights of each and every child. UNICEF believes that ifchildren’s rights and wellbeing are not addressed by Governments, civil society, theprivate sector, religious leaders, the media and society as a whole, developmentgoals will never be met here in Ethiopia or around the world. The voices, insights,experiences, capacities and energy of children and young people are untappedresources for meeting the promises and goals as embodied in the MillenniumDeclaration and a “World Fit for Children.” We want to work with you to develop anew partnership between adults and youth, seeking their opinions and taking theminto account - in the family, in schools, in our organisation and in society. Asteachers, you bear both the privelege and the duty to enlighten those in your care.We hope that this booklet will enable you to fulfil that duty. Together, teachers ofEthiopia and UNICEF, we can build a brighter, more informed future for generationsof Ethiopian children to come. We thank you for efforts in joining us to realise therights of all children, working for and with the youth of this wonderful country.
THE MILLENNIUMDEVELOPMENTGOALS
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
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ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
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ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
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PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
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REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
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IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
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COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES
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ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
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For more information about the MillenniumDevelopment Goals contactCommunication Section, UNICEF Ethiopia.
Published byThe United Nations Children’s FundEthiopia OfficeCommunication SectionP.O. Box 1169Addis Ababa, EthiopiaTel: 251 - 1 51 51 55Fax: 251 - 1 51 71 [email protected]
Illustrations by Dereje Demissie© Copyright: UNICEF Ethiopia
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