Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

millenary Development Goals (MDGs)The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)This lesson deals with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDGs are derived from earlier festering targets. The MDGs originated from the United Nations Millennium Decla symmetryn, was the main outcome of the Millennium Summit. The Declaration asserted that every individual has dignity therefore, the right to freedom, equality, a basal standard of living. MDGs emphasized the exercise of developed countries in aiding developing countries, as outlined in Goal Eight, which sets objectives and targets for developed countries to achieve a world-wide partnership for development________________________________________________________________________________ObjectivesAfter waiver through this lesson, you should be able todescribe the millennium development goals-(MDGs)Focus on three major areas for improvement.________________________________________________________________________________________7.1Introducti onIt is not the United Nations that has to achieve millennium development goals they have to be achieved by every country, by the joint efforts of government and people. The millennium declaration promises people from the dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty, make the right to development a success and reality for everyone. Each goal is easy to understand and implement. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the worlds biggest promise a global agreement through collaborative action.Any happening in one country undoubtedly affects those who live in other countries. We need to have a safe and secure world unless we react all against poverty, injustice and inequality. We can eradicate poverty, since we have the resources, and know how. Let us make best of opportunity. bingle World One Hope to achieve our global commitments and vision of the Millennium Development Goals targets by 2015.________________________________________________________________________________________7 .3 THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS-(MDGs)The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the approximately broadly supported, comprehensive and specific development goals the world has ever agreed upon. These eight time-bound goals provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions. They embroil goals and targets on income, poverty, crave, maternal and electric shaver mortality, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality, environmental degradation and the Global Partnership for Development.Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and aridityTargetsTarget 1a Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a dayTarget 1b contact full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young peopleTarget 1c Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hungerGoal 2 Achieve universal primary educationTargetsTarget 2a picture that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary school dayGoal 3 Promote gender equality and empower womenTarget 3a Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education earlier by 2005, and at all take aims by 2015Goal 4 Reduce child mortalityTargetsTarget 4a Reduce by two thirds the mortality pasture among children under fiveGoal 5 Improve maternal healthIndicatorsTarget 5a Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratioTarget 5b Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive healthGoal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseasesTargetsTarget 6a Halt and begin to dispel the spread of HIV/AIDSTarget 6b Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need itGoal 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilityTargetsTarget 7a Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes reverse loss of environmental resources.Target 7b Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reducing in the rate of loss.Target 7a and 7b IndicatorsTarget 7c Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitationGoal 8 A global partnership for developmentsTarget 8a Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Includes a commitment to straightforward governance, development and poverty reduction both nationally and internationally.Target 8b call off the special needs of the least(prenominal) developed countries Includes tariff and quota free access for the least developed countries exports enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction.Target 8c Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and Small Island developing States through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the 22nd special session of the General Assembly.T arget 8d Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term._______________________________________________________________________________________ Summing UpThe Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), endorsed by governments at the United Nations in September 2000, aimed to improve human well-being by reducing poverty, hunger, child and maternal mortality, ensuring education for all, controlling and managing diseases, tackling gender disparity, ensuring sustainable development and pursuing global partnerships. This would help to bring underdeveloped and developing nations on the next level of progress.