U.N. Millennium Development Goals

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty

• By 2015, reduce by half (compared to 1990) the proportion of people whose income is less than US $1 per day.
• Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.
• By 2015, reduce by half (compared to 1990) the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

• Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to 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 in all levels of education by 2015.
  

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

• By 2015, reduce by two-thirds (compared to 1990), the under-five mortality rate.
  

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

• Reduce by three-fourths the maternal mortality ratio.
• Achieve universal access to reproductive health.
  

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• By 2015, halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
• By 2010, achieve universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all who need it.
• By 2015, halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
  

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

• Integrate principles of sustainable development into country politics and programs, and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
• Reduce biodiversity loss and, by 2010, achieve significant reductions in the rate of loss.
• By 2015, reduce by one-half the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
• By 2020, achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
  

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

• Address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small-island developing states.
• Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.
• Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt.
• In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.

Recommended Resources

U.N. Millennium Development Goals
A gateway to the U.N. system’s work on the MDGs

UNDG MDG Good Practices (2010)
United National Development Group Millennium Develop Goals
Good practices covered in this publication have sought to address specific constraints and challenges in achieving the MDGs in each country’s context. The publication provides evidence on different approaches to achieving the various MDGs and the importance of recognizing the synergies between these and the Internationally Agreed Development Goals. Some case studies may be familiar while others may serve as technical references for development practitioners. They demonstrate that, even under resource-constrained circumstances, there are innovative ways of overcoming obstacles to accelerate progress.
See Chapter 3 for specific health related goals.

Millennium Promise
Our mission is the end of extreme poverty in our lifetime.

MDG Monitor
The Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the MDGs.

U.N. News Centre
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