The 8 Millennium Development Goals

Here is a further explanation of each goal and its specific aims... 

Goal 1
Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

Goal 2
Achieve Universal Primary Education

Goal 3
Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Goal 4
Reduce Child Mortality

Goal 5
Improve Maternal Health

Goal 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

Goal 7
Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Goal 8
Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Source: MillenniumPromise.org

Goal 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.

Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education

· Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.

Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women

· Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

Goal 4. Reduce child mortality

· Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.

Goal 5. Improve maternal health

· Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.

Goal 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.

Goal 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.

Goal 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.

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