MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Ms. Sabeena Sasidharan Asst. Lecturer Lourde College Of Nursing, Taliparamba

Sept 2000 member states [ about 189 countries]of UN

met at New YorkSeries of goal to address extreme poverty and human rights

Hope to achieve goals by 2015

Goals

1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER

Reduce half between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

Ensure that all boys and girls complete the primary education by 2015

3.PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 

4.REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

Reduce by 2/3 the mortality rate among children under 5 between 1990 and 2015

5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

Reduce by three quarters between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES TARGETS

Have Halted by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

7. ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

 Reverse loss of environmental resources

Reverse biodiversity loss Reduce by 1/2 the people without

access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction - both nationally and internationally Official development assistance