2. Millennium Development Goals of
Food Security
The MDGs are a set of numerical and time-bound
targets to measure achievements in human and
social development.
3. Food security
• When all people, at all times, have physical, social and
economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.
4. Millennium Development Goals
Primary EducationPoverty and
Hunger
Empower
Women
Child
Mortality
HIV/AIDS and
other Diseases
Environmental
Sustainability
Partnership for
Development
Maternal
Health
5. Eradicate Extreme Poverty And Hunger
Millennium Development Goal: 1
•TARGET 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people
whose Income is less than one dollar a day.
Indicators
•Poverty Headcount Ratio (percentage of population below the
national poverty line).
• Share of poorest quintile in national consumption.
• Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger
Indicator
• Prevalence of underweight children under three years of age.
6. • TARGET 3: Ensure that by 2015 children everywhere, boys and
girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary
education.
Indicators
• Net Enrolment Ratio in primary education.
• Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds.
Millennium Development Goal: 2
Achieve Universal Primary
Education
7. Millennium Development Goal: 3
Promote Gender Equality and Empower
Women• TARGET 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary
education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later
than 2015.
Indicators
• Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education.
• Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old.
• Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector.
• Proportion of seats held by women in National Parliament.
8. Millennium Development Goal: 4
Reduce Child Mortality
• TARGET 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990
and 2015, the under-five Mortality Rate.
Indicators
• Under-Five Mortality Rate.
• Infant Mortality Rate.
• Proportion of one year old children immunised
against measles.
9. Millennium Development Goal: 5
Improve Maternal Health
• TARGET 6: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and
2015, the Maternal Mortality Ratio.
Indicators
• Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR).
• Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel.
10. Millennium Development Goal: 6al: 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
diseases
TARGET 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse
the spread of HIV/AIDS
Indicators
• HIV prevalence among pregnant women.
• Percentage of population aged 15-24 years with
comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS
11. • TARGET 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse
the incidence of Malaria and other major diseases.
Indicators
• Prevalence and death rates associated with Malaria
• Proportion of population in Malaria risk areas using effective
• Malaria prevention and treatment measures(Percentage of population
covered under use of residuary spray in high risk areas)
• Prevalence and death rates associated with Tuberculosis
• Proportion of Tuberculosis cases detected and cured under
• DOTS(Dietary observed treatment short, course)
12. Millennium Development Goal: 7
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
• TARGET 9: Integrate the principle of sustainable
development into country policies and programmes
and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Indicators
• Proportion of land area covered by forest
• Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to
surface area
• Energy use per unit of GDP( Rupee)
• Carbon Dioxide emission per capita and consumption of Ozone
-depleting Chlorofluoro Carbons
• Proportion of the Households using solid fuels
13. • TARGET 10: Halve, by 2015 the proportion of
people without sustainable access to safe
drinking water and basic sanitation
Indicators
• Proportion of population with sustainable access
to an improved water source, urban and rural
• Proportion of population with access to improved
sanitation, urban and rural
14. • TARGET 11: By 2020, to have achieved a
significant improvement in the lives of at
least 100 million slum dwellers
• Indicators
• Slum population as percentage of urban
population
15. Millennium Development Goal: 8
Develop a Global Partnership for
development•TARGET 13: In Co-operation with the Private Sector, make
available the benefits of new technologies, especially Information
and Communication.
•Indicators
•Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population.
• Internet subscribers per 100 population.
• Personal computers per 100 population.
16. References
• Millennium Development Goals India Country Report, (2011), Central
Statistical Organization, Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation, Government of India.
• www.mospi.nic.in