The document discusses the EU's development aid efforts and progress toward tackling global poverty. Some key points: - Over 1 billion people still live in extreme poverty, and the EU is committed to eradicating poverty through development actions. - Thanks to EU funds, over 9 million pupils have enrolled in primary education since 2004, and over 31 million people have gained access to drinking water and sanitation facilities. - Many countries are making progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, but more needs to be done to meet the targets. - The EU provides over half of all global development aid and is the largest donor. EU development aid is implemented through various programs and country deleg

1. EuropeAid: How EU aid tackles poverty Philippe Loop EuropeAid Cooperation Office Brussels, 4 th December 2010

2. Why development aid? 1

5. 2000 Millennium Development Goals

6. GLOBAL PROGRESS ON MDGs Source: World Bank Global Monitoring Report 2009 Variation in progress by 2007 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 % of goal Achieved by 2007 Needed to be achieved by 2007 to be on track MDG 1.c Hunger MDG 2 Primary education MDG 3 Gender parity MDG 4 Child mortality MDG 5.a Maternal mortality MDG 7.c MDG 7.c safe water MDG 7.c Access to sanitation MDG 1.a Extreme poverty 2015 targets

7. European Aid in facts & figures 2

8. The EC development aid context – Where do we work?

12. EU official development assistance - ODA 2015 Source: OECD/DAC for 2009 EC Database for new Member States and 2010 OECD Data EU ODA % of GNI: actual 2009 , forecast 2010 , objective 2015 0.33 increase decrease

13. Who we are 3

17. Challenges ahead 4