The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals agreed upon by 189 United Nations member countries in 2000 to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women by 2015. The eight goals are: 1) eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, 2) achieve universal primary education, 3) promote gender equality and empower women, 4) reduce child mortality, 5) improve maternal health, 6) combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, 7) ensure environmental sustainability, and 8) develop a global partnership for development. The goals were established to address the main development challenges faced by the world's poorest nations.

1. Millennium Development
Goals

2. What are the MillenniumDevelopment
Goals?
• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that
respond to the world's main development
challenges.
• The MDGs are drawn from the actions and
targets contained in the Millennium
Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-
and signed by 147 heads of state and
governments during the
• UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.

3. There are Eight Millennium Development
Goals adopted by United Nation
1. To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. To achieve universal primary education
3. To promote gender equality and empower
women
4. To reduce child mortality
5. To improve maternal health
6. To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. To ensure environmental sustainability
8. To develop a global partnership for development.

4. 1.Reduce by half the
proportion of people living
on less than a dollar a day.
2.Achieve full and productive
employment and decent
work for all, including
women and young people.
3.Reduce by half the
proportion of people who
suffer from hunger
Indicators

5. 1.Ensure that all boys and
girls complete a full course
of primary schooling.
Indicators

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

7. 1. Reduce by two thirds the
mortality rate among
children under five
Indicators

8. 1.Reduce by three quarters the
maternal mortality ratio.
2.Achieve, by 2015, universal
access to reproductive health.
Indicators

9. 1.Halt and begin to reverse the spread
of HIV/AIDS.
2.Achieve, by 2010, universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS for allthose
who need it.
3.Halt and begin to reverse the
incidence of malaria and other
major diseases
Indicators

10. 1.Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into country policies
and programmes; reverse loss of
environmental resources.
2.Reduce by half the proportion of
people without sustainable access
to safe drinking water and basic
sanitation.
3.Achieve significant improvement in
lives of at least 100 million slum
dwellers, by 2020
Indicators

11. 1. Develop further an open, rule-based,
predictable, non- discriminatory trading
and financial system.
2. Address the special needsof the least
developed countries.
3. 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 twenty- second special
session ofthe GeneralAssembly).
Indicators

12. 1. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of
developing countries through national and international
measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long
term.
2. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide
access to affordable essential drugs in developing
countries.
3. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies, especially information and
communications
Indicators

13. Global Commitmentto the
Millennium Development
Goals
• In September 2000, 189 UN member-
countries -- rich and poor alike -- reaffirmed
their commitment to peace and security,
good governance, and attention to the most
vulnerable with the adoption of the
Millennium Declaration.

14. Containing commitments to achieve the eight
MDGs and the specific targets under them by 2015,
the Millennium Declaration reflects the vision of
entire nations, working together with international
and country-based organizations, to wipe out
poverty and the worst forms of human deprivation,
and lay the foundations for sustainable human
development by the year 2015.
Global Commitment to the
Millennium Development
Goals