UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG)

Goal #1


Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger


Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Goal #2


Achieve universal primary education


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

Goal #3


Promote gender equality and empower women


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

Goal #4


Reduce child mortality


Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

Goal #5


Improve maternal health


Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

Goal #6


Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases


Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Goal #7


Ensure environmental sustainability


Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

Goal #8


Develop a global partnership for development


Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
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 technologies