LEARN::MDG

The Millenium Development Goals

At the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, world leaders from rich and poor countries alike committed themselves - at the highest political level - to a set of eight time-bound targets that, when achieved, will end extreme poverty worldwide by 2015. The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are an eight-point road map with measurable targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world's poorest people. World leaders have agreed to achieve the following goals by 2015:

	End Poverty and Hunger - Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
	Universal Education - Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
	Gender Equality - Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
	Child Health - Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
	Maternal Health - Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
	Combat HIV/AIDS - Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
	Environmental Sustainability - Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
	Global Partnership - Address the special needs of least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states.

Information gathered from the United Nation's website