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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