1. You have the power to eradicate poverty in 15 years
You have the power to eradicate poverty in 15 years. What are you going to do to make sure that happens?

2. Millennium Development Goals
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To know the 8 millennium development goals
To evaluate the progress made by the millennium development goals

3. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THESE?

4. WHAT ARE THEY? Millennium Summit Sept 200.
Series of goals set to address extreme poverty and human rights
Aim to achieve goals by 2015

5. 1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER
Reduce by ½ people living on less than $1 a day
Achieve employment & decent work for all
Reduce by ½ people who suffer from hunger

6. 2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school.

7. 3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY & EMPOWER WOMEN
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education

8. 4. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
Reduce by 2/3 the mortality rate among children under 5

9. 5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
Reduce by ¾ the maternal mortality ratio
Achieve universal access to reproductive health

10. 6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA & OTHER DISEASES
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDs.
Achieve by 2010 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDs for all that need it.
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria & other major diseases

11. 7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Reverse loss of environmental resources
Reverse biodiversity loss
Reduce by ½ the people without access to safe drinking water & basic sanitation
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020

12. 8. DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Address the special needs of the least developed countries
Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States)
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries
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

13. HOW HAVE WE BEEN DOING?

14. 1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER
Percentage in extreme poverty dropped from 33% in 1990 to less than 20% in 2004

15. 1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

16. 2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
Enrollment grew from 80% (1991) to 88% (2005)
Does not reflect whether children attend regularly and statistics not available in many conflict areas – more than 100 million children remain out of school.

17. 3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY & EMPOWER WOMEN
Slow increase – uneven results
46% of girls in worlds poorest countries have no access to primary education
75% of worlds illiterate adults are women

18. 4. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
Reduced by 13 million to 9.7 million

19. 5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
Still more than 500,000 childbirth related deaths each year (1 death every minute)
99% in developing nations
In 10 poorest countries 1 in 15 women die in child birth
In 10 richest countries 1 in 16,400 women die in child birth

20. 6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA & OTHER DISEASES
Number of AIDs deaths increased
Number HIV infections decreased
Malaria reduced but more funding is needed

21. 7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Climate Change!
Desertification
Deforestation
Coral reef destruction
Rwanda – first mining free country

22. 8. DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
the G-8 Summit 2005 reached an agreement to provide enough funds to the World Bank, the IMF, and the African Development Bank (ADB) to cancel an additional $40–55 billion debt owed by members of the Heavily In-debted Poor Countries (HIPC)..