1. The Millenium Development Goals 8 ways to improve our World
Valencia, 25 August 2009

2. The Millennium Development Goals of United Nations (MDGs):
8 goals to respond to the world's main development challenges by 2015.
Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
Goal 5. Improve maternal health
Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development
The MDGs break down into 20 quantifiable targets measured by 60 indicators.

3. What are the MDGs?. A SINGLE PACKAGE that
Integrates many important commitments made at international fora in the 90`s
Recognize the linkage among growth, poverty reduction & sustainable development
Founds development on democratic governance, the rules of the law, and human rights, peace and security
Is based on time-bound, measurable targets & indicators to observe progress
Bring together, in the eighth Goal, the responsibilities of developing countries with those of developed countries, founded on a global partnership

4. “The most ambitious project ever put into action in the history”
The MDGs history
2000: nations-and signed by 147 heads of state and governments adopted the Millennium Declaration during the UN Millennium Summit.
2001: UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan presented Road Map Towards the Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration; an integrated situation analysis outlining potential strategies to meet the goal
2002: The Millennium Project , an independent advisory body, prepared a worldwide concrete action plan: “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the MDG
2005: 170 Heads of State adopted the plan and committed to adopt its own
national strategy to achieve the MDG; based on Annan report “In Larger Freedom”
2006: The works was focus on the implementation of the Project's proposals.

5. 20 Quantified Targets
Reduce by half the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Reduce by two thirds the mortality of children under five
Reduce maternal mortality by three quarters
Achieve universal access to reproductive health

6. 20 Quantified Targets Halt and reverse HIV/AIDS.
Achieve by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS
Halt and reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; Reverse the loss of environmental resources
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a major reduction in the rate of loss
Halve the share of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Address special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt
Provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Make available the benefits of new technologies, especially ICTs

7. GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Target 1: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Immediate action is needed to contain rising greenhouse gas emissions
Success in limiting ozone-depleting substances is also helping to mitigate climate change
Target 2: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
Marine areas and land conservation need greater attention
Deforestation slows and more forests are designated for biodiversity conservation
The number of species threatened with extinction is rising rapidly
Fish stocks require improved fisheries management to reduce depletion

8. GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Target 3: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Almost half of the world’s population face a scarcity of water
More people are using improved sanitation facilities, but meeting the target will require a redoubling of efforts
In developing regions, nearly one in four uses no form of sanitation
Though access to improved drinking water has expanded, nearly one billion people do without Women shoulder the largest burden in collecting water
Target 4: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least
100 million slum dwellers
Simple, low-cost interventions could improve the lives of many slum dwellers

9. Access to safe water / basic sanitation
GOAL 7: Target 3:
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Some facts.
2.8 billion (+ 40 %) of the world’s population, live with some form of water scarcity.
> 1.2 billion of them live under conditions of physical water scarcity, when > 75 % the river flows are withdrawn.
1.6 billion people live in areas of economic water scarcity, where human, institutional and financial capital limit access to water, even though water is available locally
Lack of or underdeveloped water infrastructure, high vulnerability to short- and long-term drought, and difficult access to reliable water supplies, especially for rural people.
Almost half of the world’s population face a scarcity of water

10. Access to safe water / basic sanitation
Some facts.
1.1 billon people in developing regions are using improved sanitation facilities since To reach the goal, another 1.6 billion persons in the next 7 years.
2.5 billion people remain without improved sanitation (Asia 1 billion & sub-Saharan Africa, ½ billion)
In 54 countries, less than ½ inhabitants used an improved sanitation facility. (3/4 in sub-Saharan Africa)
Half of the world’s population live in rural areas. It represents 70% of the people without improved sanitation.
In urban areas, improvements in sanitation have failed to keep pace with population growth
More people are using improved sanitation facilities, but meeting the target will require a redoubling of efforts

11. Access to safe water / basic sanitation
In developing regions, nearly one in four uses no form of sanitation
Some facts.
25% of the developing world’s population live without any form
of sanitation.
 15 % use sanitation facilities that do not ensure hygienic separation of human waste from human contact.
Open defecation expose an entire community, not just those who practice it, because of an increased risk of several diseases
Of the 1.2 billion people worldwide who practise open defecation, more than one billion live in rural areas.

12. Access to safe water / basic sanitation
Some facts.
1.6 billion people have gained access to safe water since 1990.
To meet the drinking water target, 89 % of people in developing regions needs to improved sources of drinking water.
1 billion people today lack safe sources of drinking water.
In Eastern Asia, 400 million people have gained access and coverage has grown by 20 % since 1990.
Less progress has taken place in sub-Saharan Africa, just 33% of those without improved drinking water supplies.
Some 742 million rural people lived without access to improved drinking water, compared to 137 million urban residents.
Women usually are responsible for collecting water, twice more than men, while children collect water in 11 % of the households. More girls than boys fetch water
Though access to improved drinking water has expanded, nearly one billion people do without Women shoulder the largest burden in collecting water

13. What is needed?
The UN estimates that the cost of closing the gap between current trends and target trends for achieving the Goal 7 targets on water and sanitation, based on low-cost, sustainable technologies, is at least $10 billion/year.