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UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
By the year 2015, all 191 United Nations member states have pledged to meet these goals. Why do the millennium
development goals matter?
Emanating from the Millennium Declaration,
the eight Millennium Development Goals bind
countries to do more and join forces in the
fight against poverty, illiteracy, hunger, lack
of education, gender inequality, child and
maternal mortality, disease and environmental
degradation. The eighth goal, reaffirmed in
Monterrey and Johannesburg, calls on rich
countries to relieve debt, increase aid and
give poor countries fair access to their markets
and their technology. The Millennium Development
Goals are a test of political will
to build stronger partnerships. Developing
countries have the responsibility to undertake
policy reforms and strengthen governance to
liberate the creative energies of their people.
But they cannot reach the Goals on their
own without new aid commitments, equitable
trading rules and debt relief. The Goals offer
the world a means to accelerate the pace of
development and to measure results.
The goals
1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day.
- Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
2: Achieve universal primary education
- Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.
3: Promote gender equality and empower women
- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
4: Reduce child mortality
- Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.
5: Improve maternal health
- Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.
6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
- Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
7: Ensure environmental sustainability
- Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.
- Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
- 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 trading and financial system that is rule-based,
predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance,
development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally.
- Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and
quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted
poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous
official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
- Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States.
- Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national
and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term.
- In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth.
- 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 technologies
For more information
The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (English)
The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Svenska)
The Millennium Campaign - Voices against poverty
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