You have the power to eradicate poverty in 15

years. What are you going to do to make sure that happens?

Millennium Development Goals

LEARNING OBJECTIVES1. To know the 8 millennium development goals

2. To evaluate the progress made by the millennium development goals

YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THESE?

WHAT ARE THEY?

• Millennium Summit Sept 200.

• Series of goals set to address extreme poverty and human rights

• Aim to achieve goals by 2015

1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

• Reduce by ½ people living on less than $1 a day

• Achieve employment & decent work for all

• Reduce by ½ people who suffer from hunger

2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

• Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school.

3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY & EMPOWER WOMEN

• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education

4. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

• Reduce by 2/3 the mortality rate among children under 5

5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

• Reduce by ¾ the maternal mortality ratio

• Achieve universal access to reproductive health

6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA & OTHER DISEASES

• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDs.

• Achieve by 2010 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDs for all that need it.

• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria & other major diseases

7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability

• Reverse loss of environmental resources

• Reverse biodiversity loss

• Reduce by ½ the people without access to safe drinking water & basic sanitation

• Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020

8. DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

• Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system

• Address the special needs of the least developed countries

• Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States)

• Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries

• 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

HOW HAVE WE BEEN DOING?

• Percentage in extreme poverty dropped from 33% in 1990 to less than 20% in 2004

1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

• Enrollment grew from 80% (1991) to 88% (2005)

• Does not reflect whether children attend regularly and statistics not available in many conflict areas – more than 100 million children remain out of school.

2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

• Slow increase – uneven results

• 46% of girls in worlds poorest countries have no access to primary education

• 75% of worlds illiterate adults are women

3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY & EMPOWER WOMEN

• Reduced by 13 million to 9.7 million

4. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

• Still more than 500,000 childbirth related deaths each year (1 death every minute)– 99% in developing

nations

• In 10 poorest countries 1 in 15 women die in child birth

• In 10 richest countries 1 in 16,400 women die in child birth

5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

• Number of AIDs deaths increased

• Number HIV infections decreased

• Malaria reduced but more funding is needed

6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA & OTHER DISEASES

• Climate Change!

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Coral reef destruction

• Rwanda – first mining free country

7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability

• the G-8 Summit 2005 reached an agreement to provide enough funds to the World Bank, the IMF, and the African Development Bank (ADB) to cancel an additional $40–55 billion debt owed by members of the Heavily In-debted Poor Countries (HIPC)..

8. DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT