ANNEX 2: THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were
agreed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000.
Nearly 190 countries have subsequently signed up to them. The
Goals were created to encourage concerted action by the international
community to achieve progress on human development by 2015.
Alongside the eight Goals, a series of 18 targets
were established to set out a number of tangible steps that the
international community should achieve within a set time period.
DFID has made the MDGs the overall aim of its Public
Service Agreement (PSA).
The Millennium Development Goals and linked targets
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1: Reduce by half the proportion of people
living on less than a dollar a day.
Target 2: Reduce by half the proportion of people
who suffer from hunger.
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Target 3: Ensure that all boys and girls complete
a full course of primary schooling.
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate
among children under five.
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Target 6: Reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality
ratio.
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target 7: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence
of malaria and other major diseases.
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss
of environmental resources.
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people
without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives
of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
Target 12. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable,
non-discriminatory trading and financial system, which includes
a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction—both
nationally and internationally.
Target 13. Address the special needs of the least
developed countries, to include: tariff and quota-free access
for least developed countries' exports; enhanced programme of
debt relief for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) and cancellation
of official bilateral debt; and more generous Official Development
Assistance (ODA) for countries committed to poverty reduction.
Target 14. Address the special needs of landlocked
countries and small island developing states.
Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems
of developing countries through national and international measures
in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries,
develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work
for youth.
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector,
make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information
and communications.
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