1. UN Millennium Development Goals
Target date: 2015
Text adapted from:
United Nations Development Programme: (2002);
Millennium Development Goals Report 2005: The State of Food Insecurity in the World (FAO) 2005

2. UN Millennium Development Goals

3. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target for 2015: Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger.
More than a billion people live on less than $1 a day
800 million people do not have enough food to meet their energy needs
¼ of children under 5 in the developing world are malnourished

5. Undernourishment
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7. 2. Achieve universal primary education
Target for 2015: Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school.
115 million children do not attend school, but the target is within reach.
India classroom

8. Children out of school

9. Youth Literacy

10. Global Literacy

11. 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
Target for 2015: Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education
Two-thirds of illiterates are women

12. Gender inequality in education

13. Gender inequality in employment
The rate of employment among women is two-thirds that of men.

14. Gender inequality in government
The proportion of seats in parliaments held by women is increasing
16% worldwide
About one third in
Argentina
Mozambique
South Africa
                
Luisa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique

15. 4. Reduce child mortality
Target for 2015: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
Every year nearly 11 million young children die before their fifth birthday
Equals 30,000 children a day
mainly from preventable illnesses
that number is down from 15 million in 1980.

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17. 5. Improve maternal health
Target for 2015: Reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women dying in childbirth.
In the developing world, the risk of dying in childbirth is one in 48
But virtually all countries now have safe motherhood programs.
U.S. risk of dying in childbirth is one in 10,000
Nurse-midwife trainees, India

18. Maternal Mortality (2005)
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20. 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target for 2015: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
Forty million people are living with HIV
AIDS is the leading cause of premature death in Sub-Saharan Africa

21. People living with HIV AIDS

22. HIV AIDS in Africa 25 Million Africans have HIV AIDS
2/3 of worldwide AIDS
2 million deaths/year
12 million AIDS orphans

23. Malaria Mosquito netting: effective & inexpensive

24. AIDS, Malaria and Hunger
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25. HIV Education
Some countries have shown that the spread of HIV can be stemmed.
Brazil
Senegal
Thailand
Uganda
Uganda billboard

26. 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
Targets:
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs
Reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Reforestation project, West Africa

28. Global Deforestation

29. Safe Drinking Water
Target: by 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water.
More than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water
During the 1990s, nearly one billion people gained access to safe water

30. Populations without access to safe drinking water

31. Slum Dwellers
Target: by 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
New Delhi, India

32. Number of Urban Slum Dwellers is Increasing
Global urban population has surpassed rural population
Future increase in world population will be in urban slums
There are now 1 billion slum dwellers
31% of urban populations worldwide
71% of urban populations in Sub- Saharan Africa
Global urban population will grow to 6 billion by 2050
Will be 3.5 billion slum dwellers
Source: BBC 2003

33. Percentage of Global Slum Dwellers is declining

37. Sanitation More than two billion people lack sanitation.
Half the developing world
During the 1990’s nearly one billion people gained access to sanitation.
Improving sanitation, East Africa

38. Sanitation

39. 8. Develop a global partnership for development
Targets:
Develop further an open trading and financial system
includes a national and international commitment to good
governance
development
poverty reduction
Uganda Parliament

40. Special Needs Address the least developed countries’ special needs
Landlocked States
Small island developing States
Haiti

41. Youth Develop decent and productive work for youth
Youth job training, S. Africa

42. Affordable Drugs
Provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies

43. Technology
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies
Especially information and communications technologies.   

44. Mobile Phones

45. Internet World Map (2007)

46. Debt Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems
Many developing countries spend more on debt service than on social services.
Middle income countries benefit from increased trade
Poorest countries benefit more from aid than trade

47. Aid

48. MGD Progress 2010

49. Progress Toward MGD