MILLENNIUM MILLENNIUM

DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT

GOALSGOALS

United Nations

By 2015 all United Nations Member States By 2015 all United Nations Member States have pledged to …have pledged to …

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerhunger

2. Achieve universal primary education2. Achieve universal primary education

Ensure that all girls Ensure that all girls and boys complete and boys complete a full course of a full course of primary schooling.primary schooling.

3. Promote gender equality 3. Promote gender equality and empower womenand empower women

Eliminate gender Eliminate gender disparity in primary disparity in primary and secondary and secondary education, education, preferably by preferably by 2005, and at all 2005, and at all levels by 2015.levels by 2015.

4. Reduce child mortality4. Reduce child mortality

Reduce by two Reduce by two thirds the mortality thirds the mortality rate among rate among children under the children under the age of five.age of five.

5. Improve maternal health5. Improve maternal health

Reduce by three Reduce by three quarters the maternal quarters the maternal mortality ratio.mortality ratio.

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseasesother diseases

* Halt and begin to * Halt and begin to reverse the spread of reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.HIV/AIDS.

* Halt and begin to * Halt and begin to reverse the incidence reverse the incidence of malaria and other of malaria and other major diseases.major diseases.

7. Ensure environmental sustainability7. Ensure environmental sustainability

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

* Reduce by half the proportion of * Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. to safe drinking water.

** Achieve significant improvement in Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum-lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020.dwellers by 2020.

8. Develop a global partnership 8. Develop a global partnership for developmentfor development

** Develop further an open Develop further an open trading and financial trading and financial system.system.

* Address the least * Address the least developed countries’ developed countries’ special needs.special needs.

* Deal comprehensively * Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ with developing countries’ debt problems.debt problems.

* In cooperation with * In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing essential drugs in developing countries.countries.

** In cooperation with the private In cooperation with the private sector, make available the sector, make available the benefits of new technologies - benefits of new technologies - especially information and especially information and communication technologies.communication technologies.

How will they be achieved?How will they be achieved?

• Sharing Sharing responsibilityresponsibility

• Providing financingProviding financing

• Building 2/3 world Building 2/3 world and 1/3 world and 1/3 world relationships relationships

• Changing the work Changing the work role of the BWIs and role of the BWIs and the WTO, UNCTAD.the WTO, UNCTAD.

Source: CIDSE, CARITAS

What can we do?What can we do?

• Monitor Monitor commitmentscommitments

• Lobby donor Lobby donor governments and governments and international groupsinternational groups

• Be in solidarity with Be in solidarity with global campaigns.global campaigns.

Source: www.cidse.org and www.caritas.org

Photo from NGLS website: www.un-ngls.org/MDG