Millennium Development Goals

Question 1

MDG 1 is:
Aims to:
Successfully did:
Failed to:
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by:

Answer 1

MDG 1 is: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
Aims to:reduce poverty and global hunger
Successfully did: number of people living on $1.25 a day has been reduced from 1.9 billion to 836 million in 2015. this has reduced hunger through increased income
Failed to: 920 million still live below the poverty line
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by: SDG 1 is to eradicate poverty, while SDG 2 is ‘zero hunger’ as two separate goals (more achievable and more manageable)

Question 2

MDG 2 is:
Aims to:
Successfully did:
Failed to:
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by:

Answer 2

MDG 2 is: achieving universal primary education
Aims to: eradicate poverty by educating people
Successfully did: 89% of children undergo full primary education
Failed to: 11% still don’t attend, the issue being far more prevalent amongst girls than boys in LICs and some regions in NEEs
Primary gives a good base, but doe snot give qualifications and many children leave school after 11 to go and work
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by: quality education is SDG 3

Question 3

MDG 3 is:
Aims to:
Successfully did:
Failed to:
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by:

Answer 3

MDG 3 is: better world for all, gender equality
Aims to: reducing poverty and giving equal opportunities for all
Successfully did: women are slowly gaining more political power, with the number of women in parliament incerasing from 11% to 19% from 1995-2010
Failed to: in LICs, only 5-10% of girls go to school!
this is crucial as lack of education often leads to younger pregnancies for women, which limits career etc in LICs as well as HICs
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by: gender equality is SDG 5

Question 4

MDG 4 is:
Aims to:
Successfully did:
Failed to:
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by:

Answer 4

MDG 4 is: reduce child mortality
Aims to:
Successfully did: death rates of children under five has fallen by 28% from 1990-2008
1/3 of the 49 least developed countries have lowered their under five mortality rates by 40% or more
Failed to: this is way of the 2/3 targets for MDG by 2015
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by: clean water and sanitation

Question 5

MDG 5 is:
Aims to:
Successfully did:
Failed to:

Answer 5

MDG 5 is: improving maternal health
Aims to: target was to reduce maternal mortality rates by 3/4 by 2015 and have universal access to reproductive health
Successfully did:
Failed to: 350,000 women die a year from complication during childbirth, with most avoidable deaths occuring in least developing countries

Question 6

MDG 6 is:
Aims to:
Successfully did:
Failed to:

Answer 6

MDG 6 is: halt and reverse the spread of HIV and AIDs by 2015 and combat malaria
Aims to: universal access to HIV and AIDs treatment
Successfully did: tie in with other goals such a gender equality, child mortality and poverty
Failed to: malaria kills a child in the world every 45 seconds
33.4 million people were living with HIV in 2008, 2/3 of which are in Subsaharan Africa

Question 7

MDG 7 is:
Aims to:
Successfully did:
Failed to:
Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by:

Answer 7

MDG 7 is: ensure environmental sustainability
Aims to: from improving access to drinking water to reducing biodiversity loss
Successfully did: 2.9 billion have gained access to improved drinking water since 1990
Failed to: 663 million people still don’t have access to improved drinking water

Now improved/followed up by the SDGs by: affordable and clean energy (SDG 7), responsible consumption and production (SDG 12), climate action (13), life below water, 14, above land, 15 are nee goals

Question 8

MDG 8 is:
Aims to:
Successfully did:

Answer 8

MDG 8 is: develop a global partnership for development
Aims to: address world issues linked to finance and debt
Successfully did: from 2000-2014, HIC to LIC/NEE overseas development increased by 66%
£80.3 billion given by HICs in assistance to developing countries

Question 9

Overall, the MDGs were

Answer 9

Overall, the MDGs were very ambitious and there has been varied success.
The collaboration and cooperation beteeen different countries had led to a significant improvement in the quality of life of people in most regions of the world