Millennium Development Goals

United Nations Development

Programme
 What are the Millennium Development
Goals?
• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that
respond to the world's main development
challenges.
•The MDGs are drawn from the actions and
targets contained in the Millennium
Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-
and signed by 147 heads of state and
governments during the UN Millennium
Summit in September 2000.
 Indicators
1. Reduce by half the
proportion of people
living on less than a
dollar a day.
2. Achieve full and
productive employment
and decent work for all,
including women and
young people.
3. Reduce by half the
proportion of people
who suffer from hunger
 Indicators
1. Ensure that
all boys and
girls complete
a full course
of primary
schooling.
 Indicators
1.Eliminate gender
disparity in
primary and
secondary
education
preferably by
2005, and at all
levels by 2015.
 Indicators

2. Reduce by
two thirds the
mortality rate
among
children under
five
 Indicators
1.Reduce by three
quarters the
maternal mortality
ratio.
2.Achieve, by 2015,
universal access to
reproductive
health.
 Indicators
1.Halt and begin to
reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
2.Achieve, by 2010,
universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS
for all those who need
it.
3.Halt and begin to
reverse the incidence
of malaria and other
major diseases
 Indicators
1. Integrate the principles of
sustainable development
into country policies and
programmes; reverse loss of
environmental resources.
2. Reduce by half the
proportion of people
without sustainable
access to safe drinking
water and basic
sanitation.
3. Achieve significant
improvement in lives of at
least 100 million slum
dwellers, by 2020
 Indicators
1. Develop further an open, rule-
based, predictable, non-
discriminatory trading and
financial system.
2. Address the special needs of
the least developed countries.
3. Address the special needs of
landlocked developing
countries and small island
developing States (through the
Programme of Action for the
Sustainable Development of
Small Island Developing States
and the outcome of the
twenty- second special session
of the General Assembly).
Indicators
1. Deal comprehensively with
the debt problems of
developing countries through
national and international
measures in order to make
debt sustainable in the long
term.
2. In cooperation with
pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable
essential drugs indeveloping
countries.
3. In cooperation with the
private sector, make
available the benefits ofnew
technologies, especially
information and
communications
 Global Commitment to the
Millennium Development Goals
• In September 2000, one hundred and eighty-
nine UN member-countries -- rich and poor
alike -- reaffirmed their commitment to peace
and security, good governance, and attention
to the most vulnerable with the adoption of
the Millennium Declaration.
 Global Commitment to the
Millennium Development Goals
• Containing commitments to achieve the eight
MDGs and the specific targets under them by
2015, the Millennium Declaration reflects the
vision of entire nations, working togetherwith
international and country-based
organizations, to wipe out poverty and the
worst forms ofhuman deprivation, and lay the
foundations for sustainable human
development by the year2015.
 Global Commitment to the
Millennium Development Goals
• The overarching need is to ensure that the
MDGs are integrated into and given top
priority in each committed country's
development planning efforts: with efficient
monitoring, localization, and advocacy
systems put in place; crucial financing
secured; multisectoral support mobilized; and
an enabling environment created with an
MDG-responsive policy framework and
legislation.
 Philippine Commitment to the
Millennium Development Goals
• Since the Philippines first resolved to adopt
the MDGs, it has made encouraging strides,
particularly towards the attainment of targets
on reducing extreme poverty; child mortality;
the incidence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and
malaria; on improving gender equality in
education; and improving households'
adequate dietary intake as well as access to
safe drinking water.
• Underpinning these gains are two facts. First, the
MDGs have been tightly integrated into the Medium-
Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP)
2004-2010, thus allowing government strategies,
policies and action plans to simultaneously address
national and MDG targets.
• Second, the government has continually closely
monitored its own rate of progress in MDG
indicators, and used this information to fine-tune its
planning and implementation, especially to ensure
effective implementation at the locallevel.
• Nevertheless, serious challenges and threats
remain with regard to targets on maternal
health, access to reproductive healthservices,
nutrition, primary education, and
environmental sustainability. And glaring
disparities across regions persist, as do severe
funding constraints.
• The overall probability of attaining thetargets
remains high, though dependent largely on
the confluence of several factors, among
them: scaling up of current efforts on all
target areas; more efficient synchronization
and allocation of available limited resources,
including mobilization of additional resources;
and stronger advocacy for and enhanced
capability toimplement the MDGs at the local
level.
Thank you