The Eight Goals
In September 2000 world leaders came together in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets - with a deadline of 2015 - that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). To reach the goals the nations need help from charities, including Plan who implement a number of programmes aimed at achieving the goals.
GOAL 1
Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty:
- Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than a dollar a day.
- Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.
- Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
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GOAL 2
Achieve Universal Primary Education:
- Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
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GOAL 3
Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women:
- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2015, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
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GOAL 4
Reduce Child Mortality:
- Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
GOAL 5
Improve Maternal Health:
- Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
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GOAL 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases:
- Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
- Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatmenet for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it.
- Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
Plan's work on the deadly diseases.
GOAL 7
Ensure Environmental Sustainability:
- Integrate the principles of sustainable developement into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental ressources.
- Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss.
- Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable acess to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
- To have achieved, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
Plan has special Water and Sanitation Programmes.
GOAL 8
Develop a Global Partnership for Development:
- Develop further a open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.
- Adress the special needs of the least developed countries.
- Adress the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.
- Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
- In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developeing countries.
- In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communication.
For more information see the United Nations website about the goals
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