Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s)

MDG’s for the TURKEY of 2023 and EU Accession

Jakob Simonsen, UNDP – Turkey

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The Millennium Development Goals

MDG 1 MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerEradicate extreme poverty and hungerTarget 1Target 1 Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a dayday

MDG 2 MDG 2 Achieve universal primary educationAchieve universal primary education

MDG 3 MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower womenPromote gender equality and empower women

MDG 4 MDG 4 Reduce child mortalityReduce child mortality

MDG 5 MDG 5 Improve maternal healthImprove maternal health

MDG 6 MDG 6 Combat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseasesCombat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases

MDG 7 MDG 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilityEnsure environmental sustainability

MDG 8 MDG 8 Develop a global partnership for developmentDevelop a global partnership for development

The Millennium DevelopmentGoals

A respected, strong and leading A respected, strong and leading

country not only in her region but also country not only in her region but also in the world in the world

(Forum Istanbul, 2004)(Forum Istanbul, 2004)

Economic Economic Growth Good Growth Good Governance Governance Equal Equal OpportunityOpportunity

European European AccessionAccession

Millennium Development Goals

Benchmarks of progress for eradicating poverty globally but more importantly within each country.

Priority placed on each goal determined by national vision and development strategies.

MDG 1 MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerhunger

MDG 2 MDG 2 Achieve universal primary educationAchieve universal primary education

MDG 3 MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower womenPromote gender equality and empower women

MDG 4 MDG 4 Reduce child mortalityReduce child mortality

MDG 5 MDG 5 Improve maternal healthImprove maternal health

MDG 6 MDG 6 Combat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseasesCombat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases

MDG 7 MDG 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilityEnsure environmental sustainability

MDG 8 MDG 8 Develop a global partnership for developmentDevelop a global partnership for development

The Millennium DevelopmentGoals

MethodologyMethodology Poverty linePoverty line Poverty incidencePoverty incidence

Absolute poverty Absolute poverty international international standardstandard

One dollar a day One dollar a day per capita at 1985 per capita at 1985 PPP pricesPPP prices

2.4%2.4%

Absolute povertyAbsolute poverty Local cost of Local cost of minimum food minimum food basketbasket

7.3%7.3%

Economic Economic vulnerabilityvulnerability

Local cost of Local cost of basic needs basic needs basket including basket including non-foodnon-food

36.3%36.3%

Relative income Relative income povertypoverty

One half of One half of national incomenational income

15.7%15.7%

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

Region Extremely poor Share of extreme poor

Mediterranean 0.9 6.4

Aegean 0.5 3.2

Marmara 0.3 3.9

South-East Anatolia 8.5 46.8

East Anatolia 3.6 17.4

Central Anatolia 2.1 19.9

Black Sea 0.4 2.5

Total 1.8 100

Goal 1: Extreme Poverty by Region in Turkey

MDG 1 MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerEradicate extreme poverty and hunger

MDG 2 MDG 2 Achieve universal primary Achieve universal primary educationeducation

MDG 3 MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower womenPromote gender equality and empower women

MDG 4 MDG 4 Reduce child mortalityReduce child mortality

MDG 5 MDG 5 Improve maternal healthImprove maternal health

MDG 6 MDG 6 Combat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseasesCombat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases

MDG 7 MDG 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilityEnsure environmental sustainability

MDG 8 MDG 8 Develop a global partnership for developmentDevelop a global partnership for development

The Millennium DevelopmentGoals

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Goal 2: Universal Primary Education for boys and girls

MDG 1 MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerEradicate extreme poverty and hungerTarget 1Target 1 Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a day Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a day

MDG 2 MDG 2 Achieve universal primary educationAchieve universal primary education

MDG 3 MDG 3 Promote gender equality Promote gender equality and and empower empower womenwomen

MDG 4 MDG 4 Reduce child mortalityReduce child mortality

MDG 5 MDG 5 Improve maternal healthImprove maternal health

MDG 6 MDG 6 Combat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseasesCombat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases

MDG 7 MDG 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilityEnsure environmental sustainability

MDG 8 MDG 8 Develop a global partnership for developmentDevelop a global partnership for development

The Millennium DevelopmentGoals

  1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

Target 2015

Proportion of Women Parliamentarians (%)

1,8 1,8 1,8 1,8 2,4 2,4 2,4 2,4 4,2 4,2 4,2 4,4

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Goal 3: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women

MDG 1 MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerEradicate extreme poverty and hungerTarget 1Target 1 Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a dayday

MDG 2 MDG 2 Achieve universal primary educationAchieve universal primary education

MDG 3 MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower womenPromote gender equality and empower women

MDG 4 Reduce child mortalityMDG 4 Reduce child mortality

MDG 5 MDG 5 Improve maternal healthImprove maternal health

MDG 6 MDG 6 Combat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseasesCombat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases

MDG 7 MDG 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilityEnsure environmental sustainability

MDG 8 MDG 8 Develop a global partnership for developmentDevelop a global partnership for development

The Millennium DevelopmentGoals

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality

Under Five Mortality Rate

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Goal 4: Regional under 5 Mortality

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MDG 1 MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerEradicate extreme poverty and hungerTarget 1Target 1 Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a dayday

MDG 2 MDG 2 Achieve universal primary educationAchieve universal primary education

MDG 3 MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower womenPromote gender equality and empower women

MDG 4 MDG 4 Reduce child mortalityReduce child mortality

MDG 5 MDG 5 Improve maternal healthImprove maternal health

MDG 6 MDG 6 Combat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseasesCombat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases

MDG 7 MDG 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilityEnsure environmental sustainability

MDG 8 MDG 8 Develop a global partnership for developmentDevelop a global partnership for development

The Millennium DevelopmentGoals

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Reduce maternal mortality by ¾

Births without skilled health personnel

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Births withoutskilled healthpersonnel

Goal 5: Maternal Health Regional

Proportion of Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff (Periods Between 1988-1993 and 1993-

1998)

Region 1988-1993 1993-1998West 93,60 92,30

South 84,00 86,20

Central 77,00 90,00

North 79,30 89,70

East 50,30 52,30

MDG 1 MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerEradicate extreme poverty and hungerTarget 1Target 1 Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a dayday

MDG 2 MDG 2 Achieve universal primary educationAchieve universal primary education

MDG 3 MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower womenPromote gender equality and empower women

MDG 4 MDG 4 Reduce child mortalityReduce child mortality

MDG 5 MDG 5 Improve maternal healthImprove maternal health

MDG 6 MDG 6 Combat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseasesCombat HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases

MDG 7 MDG 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilityEnsure environmental sustainability

MDG 8 MDG 8 Develop a global partnership for developmentDevelop a global partnership for development

The Millennium DevelopmentGoals

Challenges for Turkey

MDG 1 MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerEradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Target 1Target 1 Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a Halve % of people whose income <US$1 a dayday

MDG 2 MDG 2 Achieve universal primary educationAchieve universal primary education

MDG 3 MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower womenPromote gender equality and empower women

MDG 4 MDG 4 Reduce child mortalityReduce child mortality

MDG 5 MDG 5 Improve maternal healthImprove maternal health

MDG’s and EU Accession

MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

EU AccessionEU Accession

Political Criteria Political Criteria Economic CriteriaEconomic Criteria

Acquis - Social Acquis - Social Policy and Policy and Employment Employment

MDG 2 Universal Primary Education

MDG 3 Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women

MDG 4 Child Mortality

MDG 5 Maternal Health

MDG 6 HIV AIDS and communicable diseases

MDG 7 Environment

Regional and Gender Challenges

MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

EU AccessionEU Accession Political Criteria Political Criteria Economic CriteriaEconomic Criteria

Acquis and Social Acquis and Social Policy and Employment Policy and Employment

MDG 2 Universal Primary Education

MDG 3 Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women

MDG 4 Child Mortality

MDG 5 Maternal Health

Integration of National Policy and MDG’s

Benchmarking for attaining national goalsBenchmarking for attaining national goals International comparabilityInternational comparability Partaking of a global goalPartaking of a global goal Leverage for the achievement of the Leverage for the achievement of the

requirements of the EU Accession requirements of the EU Accession PartnershipPartnership PoliticallyPolitically EconomicallyEconomically Readiness to assume membership Readiness to assume membership

(acquis and social policy)(acquis and social policy)

MDG’s as tool for Turkey’s EU Accession and 2023 Vision

Thank you.Jakob Simonsen