millennium goals Flashcards
name the 8 millennium goals (eapriced)
- eradicate poverty and hunger
- achieve universal primary education
- promote gender equality and empower women
- reduce child mortality
5, improve maternal health - combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- ensure environmental sustainability
- develop a global partnership for development
goal 1. eradicate poverty and hunger purpose
- reduce proportion of people living on less than US$1 a day
- achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, incl. women and young people
- reduce proportion of people suffering from hunger
goal 2. achieve universal primary education purpose
- ensuring all children, boys and girls complete a full course of primary education
goal 3. promote gender equality and empower women purpose
- eliminate gender differences at all levels of education
goal 4. reduce child mortality purpose
- reduce U5MR
goal 5. improve maternal health purpose
- reduce maternal mortality rates
- achieve universal access to reproduction services
goal 6. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases purpose
- halt and begin reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- achieve universal treatment for HIV/AIDs for those who need it
goal 7. ensure environmental sustainability purpose
- incorporate principles of sustainable development into country policies and reverse loss of enviro practices
- increase access to sage water and sanitation
- improve lives of slum dwellers
goal 8. develop a global partnership for development
- address special needs of landlocked countries
- create fair trading policies
- deal with debt problems
- affordable medications
- advance availability to ICT and other technologies
reasons why goal 1 is important
- lack of income leads to lack of resources and infrastructure
- poverty and hunger reduce immune, increase mortality rates
- lack of income reduces capacity for a country to develop its economy
reasons why goal 2 is important
- education promotes greater employment - decreases poverty
- allows children to be educated which helps break poverty cycle
- health promoting behaviors are also enhanced with literacy
reasons why goal 3 is important
- women need to be able to provide for children & family
- income provides stability and enables women to help family get education and sustain nutrition
reasons why goal 4 is important
- children often die from easily preventable diseases
- children are the future of the countries society and economy
reasons why goal 5 is important
- maternal mortality rates are high in developing countries
- if mothers are in good health they can take better care of fame
- providing access to reproductive health services means that women are better able to take care of themselves and their children through seeking advice and treatment
reasons why goal 6 is important
- simple cost effective methods can reduce risk of contracting
- HIV reduces impact of individuals to work to provide for their fam
- thousands of children are orphaned which reduces chance of education and a productive life
reasons why goal 7 is important
- future generations can then provide for themselves and fam
- biodiversity is essential for future food supplies and income
- lack of water is responsible for many deaths per year
reasons why goal 8 is important
- there is a lot of potential for developing countries to improve their economies - improving health
- developed countries have a large part to play in enhancing HHD in developing countries by increasing aid and wiping debt
what are the millennium goals?
- september 2000, leaders came together in UN formalized millennium goals
- endorsed by 189 countries
- aimed to reduce extreme poverty by 2015 through MDG’s
- aim to reduce: poverty, hunger, disease, address lack of adequate shelter, access to health care, promoting gender equality, health, education, and environmental sustainability
goal 1 targets
- target 1: halve between 1990 and 2015, proportion of people whose income is less then 1 a day
- target 2: achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, incl. women and young people
- target 3: halve, between 1990 and 2015 proportion of people who suffer from hunger
goal 2 targets
target 1: ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
goal 3 targets
target 1: eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2015, and in all levels of education by no later then 2015
goal 4 targets
target 1: reduce by 2 thirds between 1990 and 2015 the under five mortality rate
goal 5 targets
target 1: reduce by 3 quarters between 1990 and 2015 the maternal mortality ratio
target 2: achieve by 2015 universal access to reproductive health
goal 6 targets
target 1: have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
target 2: achieve by 2010 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for those who need it
target 3: halt by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other diseases
goal 7 targets
target 1: integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
target 2: reduce biodiversity loss, achieving by 2010 a signifiant reduction in the rate of loss
target 3: halve by 2015 the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
target 4: by 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
goal 8 targets
target 1: address the special needs of the least developed countries, land locked and small island developing states
target 2: develop further an open, rule based, predictable, non discriminatory trading and financial system
target 3: deal comphrensivoely with developing countries debt
target 4: in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
target 5: in cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially info and communication
