The document outlines critical global challenges, including extreme poverty, lack of education, and poor health conditions, emphasizing the need for urgent action to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It details the commitments made at the Millennium Summit in 2000 and the necessity for developed nations to increase their aid significantly. The document concludes that with strategic actions, the MDGs can be achieved by 2015, benefiting millions globally.

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The Crisis
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US$34,134  POVERTY: More than one billion people in the
world live on less than a dollar a day. Another
1.8 billion struggle to survive on less than $2 per
day.
 EDUCATION: Around the world, a total of 114
million children do not get even a basic education
and 584 million women are illiterate.
 HEALTH: Life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa
is less than 55 years – and dropping.
 WATER AND SANITATION: Four out of
every ten people in the world don't have access
even to a simple latrine; and two in ten have no
source of safe drinking water.
If the Goals are achieved:
 More than 500 million people will be lifted out of
extreme poverty and 250 million will no longer
suffer from hunger.
 30 million children will be saved who would
otherwise die before reaching age 5 and 2 million
maternal deaths will have been averted.
 350 million people will have access to safe
drinking water and 650 million people will have
access to basic sanitation

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The Action
 At the Millennium Summit in September
2000, the largest gathering of world leaders
in history adopted the Millennium
Declaration, committing their nations to
reduce poverty; improve health; and
promote peace, human rights, and
environmental sustainability.
 The Millennium Development Goals set
out a mutual commitment between
developed and developing countries to
make sustained progress towards achieving
this vision.
 Specifically, the Millennium Development
Goals aim to reduce poverty, fight disease
and hunger, get girls in school and give
more people access to safe water. African
countries need to make the most progress if
they are to meet these Goals.

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The Action
 2005: The Breakthrough Year
The Millennium Development Goals can
be achieved by 2015, even in the poorest
countries, if swift, strategic action is in
place in 2005.
 The world already has affordable tools
to win this fight, such as:
– Bed-nets to fight malaria
– Vaccinations against disease
– Antiretroviral therapies to treat AIDS
– Fertilizers and agro-forestry to raise crop
yields
– Bore wells to provide drinking water
– Diesel generators for village electricity.

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The Millennium Development
Goals
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger
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: Halt and begin to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and
other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental
sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for
Development
 The MDGs are the world’s first
shared set of integrated,
quantitative and time-bound
goals for poverty reduction

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The UN Millennium Project
How We Work
Mission:
To develop a practical plan for rich and poor countries to meet the MDGs by 2015
Structure:
 Commissioned by UN Secretary-General and directed by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
 Analysis performed by 10 thematically-oriented Task Forces with a total of 265
global experts, including: researchers and scientists; policymakers; NGO
representatives, UN agencies, the World Bank, IMF and the private sector.
 Country level advisory work began in 2004 with eight pilot countries: Ethiopia,
Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tajikistan, and Yemen
 The UN Millennium Project ends on June 30, 2005

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The UN Millennium Project
Task Forces
Task Force Task Force Coordinators
1-Poverty and Economic Development Jeffrey D. Sachs, USA
Mari Pangestu, Indonesia
2-Hunger Pedro Sanchez, USA
M.S. Swaminathan, India
3-Education and Gender Equality Nancy Birdsall, USA
Amina J. Ibrahim, Nigeria
Geeta Rao Gupta, India
4-Child Health and Maternal Health Mushtaque Chowdhury, Bangladesh
Allan Rosenfield, USA
5-HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to
Essential Medicines
Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda
Jaap Broekmans, The Netherlands
Paula Munderi, Uganda
Josh Ruxin, USA
6-Environmental Sustainability Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro, Ecuador
Jeff McNeely, Canada
Don Melnick, USA
7-Water and Sanitation Roberto Lenton, Argentina
Albert Wright, Ghana
8-Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers Pietro Garau, Italy
Elliot Sclar, USA
9-Trade Patrick Messerlin, France
Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico
10-Science, Technology and Innovation Yee-Lee Cheong, Malaysia
Calestous Juma, Kenya

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The UN Millennium Project
Recommends:
 Developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet
the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for 2015. We term such plans MDG-based
Poverty Reduction Strategies (MDG-based PRSs). In order to meet the targets for 2015, we
recommend that countries have these strategies in place by the end of 2006. Where Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) already exist, they should be aligned with the MDGs.
 International donors should identify at least a dozen “MDG fast-track” countries for a
rapid scale-up of ODA in 2005. Many countries are already capable, due to their good
governance and absorptive capacity, of a massive scale-up in ODA.
 Developed and developing countries should jointly launch in 2005, a group of “quick
win” actions to save and improve millions of lives and to promote economic growth. They
should also launch a massive effort to build expertise at the community level.
 High-income countries should increase ODA from 0.25 percent of donor GNP in 2003 to
around 0.44 percent in 2006 and 0.54 percent in 2015 to support the MDGs. Donors should
also focus on improving ODA quality (including making aid harmonized, predictable, and largely
focused on budgetary support). Each donor should reach 0.7 percent of GNP by no later
than 2015. Debt relief should be more extensive and generous.
 The UN Secretary-General and the UN Development Group should strengthen the
coordination of UN agencies, funds and programs in support of the MDGs, both at the
headquarters and country level. The UN Country Teams should be strengthened and should
work closely with international financial institutions to support the MDGs.

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Priority Interventions
Some Quick Wins could bring vital gains in well-being to millions of people and start countries on
the path to the Goals. With adequate resources, the Quick Wins include:
 Eliminating school and uniform fees to ensure that all children, especially girls, are not out of school because of their
families’ poverty.
 Providing impoverished sub-Saharan farmers with affordable replenishment of soil nitrogen and soil nutrients.
 Providing free school meals for all poor children using locally produced foods with take-home rations.
 Training large numbers of village workers in health, farming, and infrastructure (in one-year programs), in order to
ensure basic expertise and services in rural communities.
 Distributing free long-lasting insecticide-treated bed-nets to all children in malaria-endemic zones.
 Eliminating user fees for basic health services in all developing countries.
 Expanding use of proven effective drug combinations for AIDS, TB, and malaria.
 Setting up funding to finance community-based slum upgrading and earmarking idle public land for low-cost housing.
 Providing access to electricity, water, sanitation, and the Internet for all hospitals, schools, and other social service
institutions using off-grid diesel generators, solar panels, or other appropriate technologies.
 Launching national campaigns to reduce violence against women.
 Establishing, in each country, an office of science advisor to the president or prime minister.

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Key Costing Facts
The UN Millennium Project has discovered that the cost of meeting the
MDGs is less than what wealthy nations have already promised to
contribute in development assistance.
 At the Monterrey Financing for Development Conference in 2002, world leaders
pledged “to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7%” of their GNP in
international aid. In today’s dollars, that would amount to almost $200 billion.
 In 2003, total aid from the 22 richest countries to the world’s developing countries
was $69 billion—a shortfall of $130 billion dollars from the 0.7% promise.
 The cost of supporting countries to meet the Goals would require donors to
increase ODA to 0.44% of GNP by 2006 (or $135 billion) and to plan for a
scale-up to 0.54% by 2015 (or $195 billion).
 This means that of the combined rich world GNP of approximately $30 trillion
dollars, only an average of $150 billion a year would be enough to get the
world on track to ending extreme poverty throughout the world.

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2005: The Breakthrough Year
LAUNCHING A DECADE OF BOLD AMBITION
There is still enough time to meet the MDGs – though barely. With a systematic
approach over the next decade, many countries now dismissed as too poor or too
far off track could still achieve the Goals, but only if the world moves urgently with
specific, scaled-up actions. Immediate action is needed to train of enough doctors
and engineers, strengthen service delivery capacity, and construct improved
infrastructure.
To launch the decade of bold ambition towards 2015, several worldwide initiatives
are needed to translate the Goals from ambition to action:
 Identify fast-track countries
 Prepare MDG-based poverty reduction strategies
 Launch a global human resource training effort
 Launch the Quick Win initiatives
 Engage middle-income countries in the challenge of meeting the MDGs