Millennium Development Goals | Millennium Promise. We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals—worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries—but only if we break with business as usual.KOFI ANNAN, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL (1997-2006) Millennium Development Goals The MDGs—set forth at the United Nations in 2000 and endorsed by all member states—are the world’s shared framework for development. The MDGs reflect an understanding of the many interconnected factors that contribute to extreme poverty and include time-bound and measurable targets to address income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and exclusion—while promoting gender equality, education and environmental sustainability. Bill Gates has called them “the best idea for focusing the world on fighting global poverty that [he has] ever seen.” The Millennium Villages Project The Millennium Villages Project aims to spur broad scaling up of integrated rural investments for achieving the MDGs.
This scale-up is only possible if ODA promises come true. Millennium Development Goals. Voices around the world are demanding leadership in 2015 on poverty, inequality and climate change. These universal challenges demand global action, and this year presents unprecedented opportunities for achieving the future we want. This September, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York to adopt a new agenda for sustainable development. This is also the year when they will reach a global agreement on climate change at the Paris Climate Conference. These new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will guide policy and funding for the next 15 years, beginning with a historic pledge to end poverty. Everywhere. Paul Ladd, Director of the UNDP Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, talks about 2015, a year in which countries will shape a new development agenda and reach a global agreement on climate change. The MDGs drove progress in several important areas: Income povertyAccess to improved sources of waterPrimary school enrollmentChild mortality.
Millennium Development Goals. In September 2000, 189 member states of the United Nations came together at the Millennium Summit and adopted the Millennium Declaration, including commitments to poverty eradication, development, and protecting the environment. Many of these commitments were drawn from the agreements and resolutions of world conferences and summits organized by the United Nations during the preceding decade. A year later the UN Secretary General’s Road Map for implementing the Millennium Declaration formally unveiled eight goals, supported by 18 quantified and time-bound targets and 48 indicators, which became known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant, measurable improvements in people's lives by the year 2015. The eight MDGs listed below guide the efforts of virtually all organizations working in development and have been commonly accepted as a framework for measuring development progress: See also.
About Us - Youthink! Issues - Millennium Development Goals. What is it? Development experts looked at different problems that make and keep people poor. They came up with eight targets that would help most people meet basic needs. If met, these targets would move poor people out of poverty and into a better life as well as enable people to contribute to their society in a more productive way. These targets are today known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals also help development experts measure how much progress has been made in reducing poverty over the years. The Millennium Development Goals are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Why should I care? As a result of the recent global economic crisis, 53 million more people will remain in extreme poverty by 2015 than otherwise would have. But many countries are off-track on other goals, especially the health-related goals of reducing child and maternal mortality, and access to basic sanitation, according to the Global Monitoring Report 2012 What is the international community doing?
PMNCH - Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD-DAC) As early as 1996, in its strategy paper Shaping the 21st Century (pdf, 104.2kB), the OECD pioneered a set of concrete development objectives that could be measured and monitored over time. The OECD also proposed a global development partnership effort to achieve ambitious yet realistic goals. Unprecedented international concensus culminated in 2000 with the first inter-agency blueprint, A Better World for All, and the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Millennium Declaration. Since 2000, the OECD has played a key role in work to track progress on the MDGs. It was a founding member of the Inter-Agency Expert Group that tested and refined the MDG indicators, and has contributed to the UN’s annual MDG progress reports and the MDG “gap” reports devoted to Goal 8, which tracks global partnership efforts in support of the MDGs.
A vital part of this work has been to supply statistics and commentary on aid flows. Financing the MDGs The OECD works to: Supporting strategic areas of progress. MDG Report. Millennium Development Goals Report 2012 - United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the MDGs, highlighting several milestones – three important MDG targets have been met well ahead of the target date of 2015. The report says that meeting the remaining targets, while challenging, remain possible – but only if Governments do not waiver from their commitments made over a decade ago.
Based on a master set of data compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG indicators led by DESA’s Statistics Division, the 2012 report outlines gains in poverty reduction and access to safe drinking water, and an improvement in the lives of slums dwellers in urban areas. The report also highlights important gains towards gender parity in primary education, a decline in levels of child mortality, a downward trend of tuberculosis and global malaria deaths and an expansion of treatment for HIV sufferers. Lastly, and perhaps most concerning is the fact that hunger remains a global challenge. Millennium Development Goals. MDG Reports. An479e.pdf (application/pdf Object) S actions towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals are a UN initiative. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
All 189 United Nations member states at the time (there are 193 currently) and at least 23 international organizations committed to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, the goals follow: Each goal has specific targets and dates for achieving those targets. To accelerate progress, the G8 Finance Ministers agreed in June 2005 to provide enough funds to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to cancel $40 to $55 billion in debt owed by members of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) to allow them to redirect resources to programs for improving health and education and for alleviating poverty. Background[edit] Precursors[edit]
Background: The Millennium Development Goals - International Planned Parenthood Federation. The Millennium Summit in September 2000 was the largest gathering of world leaders in history. It adopted the UN Millennium Declaration which set in motion a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty. The Millennium Declaration was informed by the outcomes of a series of global conferences and summits which were held during the 1990s. These included: 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women 1994 International Conference on Population and Development1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) evolved from the Millennium Declaration. They are 8 international development goals that UN member states agreed to achieve by the year 2015. IPPF advocates for: Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower womenGoal 4: Reduce child mortalityGoal 5: Improve maternal healthGoal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases The original MDGs failed to include the central ICPD goal of ‘universal access to reproductive health’.
Ited Nations Millennium Development Goals. Disclaimer The United Nations is not responsible for the content of any messages posted on this site or sites linked from this page. The inclusion of a message does not imply the endorsement of the message by the United Nations. Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline. More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1990. In 1990, nearly half of the population in the developing regions lived on less than $1.25 a day. This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015. Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people Globally, 300 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty line in 2015.
Target 1.C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger Featured stories Bangladesh: From one meal a day to three Download image. MDG Fund | Delivering on commitments. Millennium development goals | Global development. UN Millennium Project | About the MDGs. The world has made significant progress in achieving many of the Goals. Between 1990 and 2002 average overall incomes increased by approximately 21 percent. The number of people in extreme poverty declined by an estimated 130 million 1. Child mortality rates fell from 103 deaths per 1,000 live births a year to 88. Life expectancy rose from 63 years to nearly 65 years. An additional 8 percent of the developing world's people received access to water.
And an additional 15 percent acquired access to improved sanitation services. But progress has been far from uniform across the world-or across the Goals. Sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter of crisis, with continuing food insecurity, a rise of extreme poverty, stunningly high child and maternal mortality, and large numbers of people living in slums, and a widespread shortfall for most of the MDGs. The WTO and the Millennium Development Goals.
Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) | Development cooperation. At the United Nations Millennium Development Summit in 2000, 189 countries made a number of commitments. For example, they promised to halve extreme poverty and curb diseases such as AIDS and malaria by 2015. These commitments were set down in the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Millennium Development Goals: what has been achieved? The MDGs will reach their target date in 2015. The goals envisaged that by 2015: extreme hunger and poverty would be eradicated; universal primary education would be achieved; men and women would have the same rights; child mortality would be sharply reduced; maternal mortality would be reduced; the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases would be stopped; more people would be living in a sustainable environment; there would be more fair trade, debt relief and aid.
There has been an impressive reduction in poverty in the past 13 years. Dutch aid, trade and investment policies have contributed to the progress that has been made. MDG Carbon Facility. Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights. “Our responsibility is to keep the promise made to the poorest, for which we will be held accountable.” Human rights are essential to achieving and sustaining development. The Millennium Declaration, adopted by all the world’s leaders in 2000 recognized the link between human rights, good governance and development. Ten years after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established, it is clear that the objectives of human well being and dignity for all, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, will not be achieved if the MDGs are pursued in isolation from human rights.
While some countries are on track to reaching a few of these Goals, more than a billion people are still trapped in extreme poverty. The challenges are most severe in the least developed countries and land-locked countries, some small island developing states and those vulnerable to natural hazards and armed conflict. Millennium Development Goals | National Peace Corps Association.
Millennium Development Goals This list has been adapted from the original, which was compiled for the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference’s presentation on THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: A REPORT CARD FOR THE WORLD November 15, 2009 by Joanne Dufour Overview of the MDGsPrint ResourcesOther MDG Related WebsitesSpecific Resources on each of the MDGs Overview of the MDGs Click on the titles to access her MDG Educators Presentation and corresponding MDG Workshop Handouts, as well as her presentation, I Am the Goal: A Read Aloud Bringing Voice to the Millennium Development Goals and corresponding user guide, worksheet: goals 1-4 and worksheet: goals 5-8. 2009 UN Millennium Goals Report.– The MDGs are being tracked and progress is being regularly updated.
Print Resources Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference by Shannon Daley Harris, Jeffrey Keenan and Karen Speerstra highlights practical ways to work towards implementation of the MDGs in daily life. Ited Nations Millennium Development Goals. Interactive Maps. Development Goals - United Nations Millennium Development Goals Information. Millenium Development Goals. Learn how UNA-USA connects Americans with the United Nations through local Chapters, grassroots advocacy, and education. Advocacy AgendaFind a ChapterModel UNHuman RightsUNA-USA/Seton Hall Study ProgramUpcoming Events Members receive access to a range of exclusive benefits such as events at the UN and across the United States, as well as opportunities to advocate, host Model UN conferences, and connect young professionals to UN experts. Join UNA-USAFor MembersModel UN ResourcesAdvocacy ResourcesYoung ProfessionalsStudent AllianceCouncil of Organizations Learn how the UN is making an impact and how UNA-USA Chapters are sharing the UN with communities around the U.S. through our online news magazines The InterDependent and World Bulletin.
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