Millennium Development

Goals

Presenter: Dr. K Sushma

Moderator: Dr. S. S .Gupta

Framework

• Introduction• Goals• Targets• Status in 2003• Indicators• Achievements

Introduction:

• MDG adopted by United Nations in 2000 with a aim to improve global health

• The Millennium Declaration, adopted by 189 heads of state of United Nations

• Millennium Summit in 2000,committed government& intergovernmental institutions focusing international economic &social cooperation on the achievement of 8MDG by 2015

Introduction continue….

• They made specific commitments in seven areas–Peace–Security & disarmament–Development &poverty

eradication–Protecting the vulnerable–Meeting the specific needs of

Africa–Strengthening the United

Nations

Goals:

1. Eradicate Extreme poverty &hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

3. Promote gender equality &empower women

4. Reduce child mortality

5. Improve maternal health

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria &other diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

8. Develop a global partnership for development

Targets:Target2:- • Halve between 1990&2015,the

proportion of people whose income is <1dollar/day

• Halve between 1990&2015,the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Target5:- • Reduce under 5mortality rate by2/3rd

between 1990 &2015

Target6:-• Reduce maternal mortality by 3

quarters between 1990 &2015

Target7:-• Halve halted by 2015 &begun to

reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

Targets continue……

Target8:Halve halted by 2015 &begun to reverse the incidence of malaria &other major diseases

Target9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies & programmes & reverse the loss of environmental resources

Target10:Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water

Targets continue……

Target11: By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100million slum dwellers

Target17: In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable

essential drugs in developing countries.

Status in 2003:

Goal-1:• 1.2billion people were living in

poverty • More than 800 people were

malnourished • Malnutrition caused death of more

than half of all deaths

Goal-2:• 115 million children were not enrolled

in primary children• 3/5th of the 115 million children not

enrolled in primary school are girls• Children enrolled in primary school

have one in three chance of completion

Status in 2003 continue……

Goal 3:• There are 876million illiterate

adults in the world ;2/3rd of them are women

• In Sub-Saharan Africa the ratio of boys to girls enrollment in primary &secondary schools is 8:1

• The number of literate women increased from 390 million to 432 in 2000

• In 2003,the number of women holding seats in national parliaments was 15%

Status in 2003:Goal 4:• Child mortality rates have fallen

by12% since 1990• 30 million children worldwide

don’t receive vaccinations for easily preventable diseases

• In the developing world only 78% of children are immunized against TB &against measles

Goal 5:• Every year >2.2million pregnant

women who are infected with HIV give birth

Status in 2003 continue……

Goal 5:Approximately 700,000newborn babies gets HIV infection from their mothers every year

• Women are 175times more likely to die during childbirth in Sub-Saharan Africa than in developed country

Goal 6:• In 2002, 42 million adults and 5

million children were living with HIV/AIDS, over 95% of them in developing countries (70% of them in sub-Saharan Africa)

• In 2003 alone, 3 million people died from AIDS; since 1996 over 20 million people have died

Status in 2003 continue……

Goal 6• 14 million children have lost one

or both parents to AIDS; by 2010 the number is expected to reach 25 million.

Goal 7:• Total forestland shrank by 94

million hectares (232 million acres) in the last decade and now covers only about 30% of all land.

• 1.2 million people in poverty depend on forests to provide jobs and food.

• 2.4 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.

Status in 2003 continue……

Goal7:

• There are an estimated 924 million slum dwellers. The number is expected to rise to 1.5 billion by 2020

• 94% of slum dwellers live in developing countries.

• In 2001 more than 70% of the urban population of developing countries lived in slums.

Goal8:• Assistance from developed

countries decreased by a third in the 1990s.

• In 2001 landlocked countries received only 6% of all official development assistance.

• In 2002, 74 million young people (15 to 24) were unemployed. They account for 41% of unemployed people globally.

• Latin America has the best availability to technology, of all the developing regions, with almost 60 per 1,000 people with access to a computer.

Indicators4:- Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age

5:- Proportion of population below minimum

level of dietary energy consumption

13:- Under 5 mortality rate

14:- Infant mortality rate

15:- Proportion of 1-year old children immunized

against measles

16:- Maternal mortality ratio

17:- Proportion of births attended by skilled health

personnel

Indicators:18:- HIV prevalence among

young people aged15-24years

19:- Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate

20:- Number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS

21:- Prevalence of death rate associated with malaria

22:- Proportion of population inmalaria risk areas using effective malariaprevention&treatment measures

Indicators:23:- Prevalence &death rates

associated with TB

24:- Proportion of TB cases detected &cured under DOTS

29:- Proportion of population using solid fuel

30:- Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source,urban&rural

31:- Proportion of urban population with access to improved sanitation

46:- Proportion of population with access toaffordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis

How will be the world look after 2015

• More than 500 million people will be lifted out of poverty

• More than 300 million people will not suffer from hunger

• 30 million people will be saved &20 million mothers will be saved

• Safe drinking water will be available for 350million people&650million will get benefits ofbasic sanitation

Why the goals are not achieving?

Important four reasons for not achieving goals

1. Poor Governance

2. Marked corruption

3. Poor economic policy choice

4. Denial of human rights Local &national economies are

to poor to make the needed investments

Sometimes progress persist in onepart of the country but not in others,so poverty persists