Millennium Development goals

Question 1

Target 1: extended response

Radicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

Answer 1

• halve the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
• Achieve full and production employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
• halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
• extreme poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 1990
• At the global level more than 800 million people are still living in extreme poverty.

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Question 2

Target 2:

Achieve universal primary education

Answer 2

• ensure that children everywhere, boys and girls alike will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Question 3

Target 3: Extended response

Promote gender equality and empower women

Answer 3

• eliminate the gender disparity between primary and secondary education
• Globally, about three quarters of working-age men participate in the labour force, compared to half of working-age women.
• Women make up 41 per cent of paid workers outside of agriculture
• The average proportion of women in parliament has nearly doubled over the past 20 years.
• Women experience gaps in terms of poverty, labour market and wages, as well as participation in private and public decision-making.

Question 4

Target 4:

Reduce child mortality

Answer 4

• reduce two thirds the under five mortality rate

Question 5

Target 5:

Improve maternal health

Answer 5

• reduce by three quarters the maternal morality ratio

- achieve universal access to reproductive health

Question 6

Target 6:

Combat HIV/aids, Malaria and other diseases

Answer 6

• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• achieve universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
• reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Question 7

Target 7:

Ensure environmental sustainability

Answer 7

• integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
• reduce biodiversity loss
• halve the proportion of the population who don’t have sustainable access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation

Question 8

Target 8:

Develop a global partnership for development

Answer 8

• Address the specific needs of less developed countries
• deal comprehensively with developing a countries debt
• provide access to affordable pharmaceutical drugs in developing countries
• make available benefits of new technologies, information and communications

Question 9

What are the Millenium development goals

Answer 9

• developed as an outcome of the United Nations millenium summit in 2000
• the goals represent an agreed agenda for both developed and un developed countries working in partnership to reduce poverty and advance human development