MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT

GOALSBy Karlene Ormsby

GOAL ONE : ERAD ICATE EXTREME HUNGER AND POVERTY

Australia has addressed these issues by:

Donating $464 million dollars to an initiative.

Lifting the agricultural productivity.

By improving rural livelihoods

Building community resilence.

GOAL TW O: ACH IEVE U N I VER S AL PR I MARY EDU CAT I ON

Australia has addressed these issues by:

improve the functioning of national education systems to enable more girls and boys to complete

primary school and progress to higher levels of education

improve the relevance and quality of education, including in vocational and technical education, so

students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for life and productive employment.

GOAL THR EE : P RO MOTE GENDER EQ U AL I TY AND EMP OWER WO MEN.

Australia has addressed these issues by:

By improving the health and wellbeing of

In east Timor, many woman and children benefited from better access to drinking

water through AusAid support.

providing policy makers and health workers with a tool to help them respond in a

practical way to the many economic, social, legal, political and cultural

disadvantages women with HIV/AIDS face.

In Fiji, Australian support has helped give women who have been subjected to

violence somewhere to go to get help.

GOAL FOUR: REDUCE CH ILD MORAL ITY

supported the work of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital

women and children on the outer islands of Kiribati gained better access to health care through

a joint Australia, United Nations Population Fund and the European Union assisted program.

In Bangladesh, Australia has helped more children to attend school.

Improving child nutrition has been an important part of Australia's fight against child mortality in the region. Australia has helped deliver successful child vaccination programs in developing countries over the past decade

GOAL F I VE : I MPR OVE MATER NAL HEA LTH

Australia has supported the training of birth attendants and midwives in the Asia-Pacific region over the past ten years. Programs to improve health services in remote areas have helped give rural women better health support.

GOAL S I X : COM BAT H I V /A I DS , MAL A R I A AND O THER D IS EASES

targeting major causes of child and maternal mortality and morbidity

making a strong contribution in the family planning and reproductive health sector on the basis of a voluntary and non-coercive policy

improving HIV prevention and care activities.

GOAL SEVEN: ENSU R E ENV IR O NMENTAL S U S TA I NAB I L I TY

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources