Annex 1: The Millennium Development Goals
Targets (for 2015 unless stated)
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Halve the proportion of people living on less
than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger
- Full and productive employment and decent work
for all, including women and young people
2. Achieve universal primary education
- Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary
school
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
- Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary
education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
4. Reduce child mortality
- Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among
children under five
5. Improve maternal health
- Reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women dying
in childbirth.
- Universal access to reproductive health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
- Universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment for all
who need it by 2010
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
- Integrate the principles of sustainable development
into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental
resources
- Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010,
a significant reduction in the rate of loss
- By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people
without access to safe drinking water
- By 2020 achieve significant improvement in the
lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
8. Develop a global partnership for development
- Develop further an open trading and financial
system that includes a commitment to good governance, development
and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
- Address the least developed countries' special
needs, and the special needs of landlocked and small island developing
states
- Deal comprehensively with developing countries'
debt problems
- In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
- In co-operation with the private sector, make
available the benefits of new technologies - especially information
and communications technologies.
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