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Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals are the world's goals. They have spurred an unprecedented global agenda for partnership since they were established 10 years ago. Bill Gates has called them "the best idea for focusing the world on fighting global poverty that [he has] ever seen." They have seen remarkable progress, including a 74 percent reduction in measles deaths, 4 million people on life-saving AIDS treatment, and more than 30 million additional children in primary school in Africa alone. The success stories each have major lessons for scale up, including sound technical interventions, institutional mechanisms to deliver services, adequate finance to reach scale, and a clear focus on metrics. Ten years ago most were widely considered unachievable.

The eight Goals are:

GOAL 1

Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

Reduce by half the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
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 in all levels of education no later than 2015.

GOAL 4

Reduce Child Mortality

Reduce by two thirds the mortality of children under five

GOAL 5

Improve Maternal Health

Reduce maternal mortality by three quarters
Achieve universal access to reproductive health

GOAL 6

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

Halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
Halt and reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

GOAL 7

Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse the loss of environmental resources
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
Halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020

GOAL 8

Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Address special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt
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

Updated March 2010