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. 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. 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’. Each of these 8 goals has specific targets and indicators to measure whether progress towards achieving them is on track.
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. 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.
ited Nations Sport for Development and Peace - Sport and the Millennium Development Goals The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. The eight MDGs aim to eradicate or reduce poverty, hunger, child mortality and disease, and to promote education, maternal health, gender equality, environmental sustainability and global partnerships. The target date for achieving the MDGs is 2015. Sport has been recognised as a viable and practical tool to assist in the achievement of the MDGs. National Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) provide the guiding framework for low-income countries in their efforts to attain the MDGs. UN Secretary-General's video message about the need to accelerate action on the MDGs in the 1,000 days until the 2015 target date.
Millennium Villages Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Millennium Villages Project is a project of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the United Nations Development Programme, and Millennium Promise. It is an approach to ending extreme poverty and meeting the Millennium Development Goals—eight globally endorsed targets that address the problems of poverty, health, gender equality, and disease. The Millennium Villages aim to promote an integrated approach to rural development. By improving access to clean water, sanitation and other essential infrastructure such as education, food production, basic health care, and by focusing on environmental sustainability, Millennium Villages claims to ensure that communities living in extreme poverty have a real, sustainable opportunity to lift themselves out of the poverty trap.[1] Millennium Villages are divided into different types. The project was initially funded through a combination of World Bank loans and private contributions, including $50 million from George Soros.[3] Critics[edit]
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. The Millennium Villages Project The Millennium Villages Project aims to spur broad scaling up of integrated rural investments for achieving the MDGs. The MVP will be successful if it: Examples of Proven Interventions Implemented in the MVP
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. Financing the MDGs The OECD works to: Tracking aid volume: analysing how much aid is delivered, where and for what purpose. Supporting strategic areas of progress
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. 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 The proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions has fallen by almost half since 1990. Featured stories Bangladesh: From one meal a day to three MDG 1 Infographic Download image Poverty
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. 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.
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. 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
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. 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. Post-2015 global development agenda
MDG Carbon Facility Caring for Women and Children│ Millennium Development Goals SAFE BIRTH PROGRAMS After surgery repaired her fistula, Sarah Omega (top) went from being a victim of social stigma to a social advocate with the UNFPA Campaign to End Fistula. Yu Haixia (bottom left) remembers vividly the horrifying silence and then her baby’s first cry, a sign he could breathe on his own, after nurses performed life-giving resuscitation. Megan Johnson (bottom right) is using text4baby to help her during her second pregnancy as she tries to take the best care of herself, daughter Alessandra and baby on-the-way. Read their stories, and more about the Company’s philanthropic efforts, on www.jnj.com/ourcaring. Sarah Omega in Kenya, Yu Haixia in China and Megan Johnson in the United States share something in common. “Caring for the health of mothers and children has been a pillar of our philanthropic initiatives for the last 100 years,” says Sharon D’Agostino, Vice President, Worldwide Corporate Contributions, Johnson & Johnson.
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.