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The Milliennium Development goals Flashcards

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Name the 8 Millennium Development Goals.

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  1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and hunger
  2. Achieve universal primary education
  3. Promote gender equality and empower women
  4. Reduce child mortality
  5. Improve mental health
  6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  7. Ensure environmental sustainability
  8. Develop a global partnership for development
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Purpose of “ Goal 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger” ?

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  • To reduce the proportion of people living on less than US$1 (currently $1.25) Per day
  • To achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
  • To reduce the proportion of people suffering from hunger
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Purpose of “ Goal 2 - Achieve universal primary education” ?

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  • To ensure that all children, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
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Purpose of “ Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women” ?

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  • To eliminate gender differences at all levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary)
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Purpose of “ Goal 4 - Reduce Child Mortality” ?

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  • To reduce the under 5 mortality rate
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Purpose of “ Goal 5 - Improve Maternal Health ?

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  • To Reduce the maternal mortality ratio

- To achieve universal access to reproduction services

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Purpose of “ Goal 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases” ?

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  • To halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
  • Achieve universal treatment for HIV/AIDS for those who need it
  • To halt and begin to reverse the spread of malaria and other major diseases
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Purpose “ Goal 7 - Ensure environmental sustainability” ?

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  • To incorporate principles of sustainable development into country policies and reverse the loss of environmental resources
  • Reduce biodiversity loss
  • Increase access to sage water and sanitation
  • Improve the lives of slum dwellers
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Purpose of “ Goal 8 - Develop a global partnership for development” ?

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  • To Address the special needs of the least developed countries
  • Tp address the special needs of land locked countries and small island developing states
  • To create fair trading policies for developing countries
  • To deal with the debt problems of developing countries
  • To provide affordable medication through partnerships with pharmaceutical companies
  • Enhance the availability to ICT and other technologies by working with the private sector
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Reasons why “ Goal 1 - Eradicate Extreme poverty and hunger” is Important ?

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  • Lack of income leads to a lack of resources and infrastructure
  • Poverty and hunger reduce immune function and increase mortality rates from preventable diseases particularly infectious diseases
  • Lack of income reduces the capacity for a country to develop its economy which reduces levels of human development experienced.
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Reasons why “ Goal 2 - Achieve universal primary education” is Important ?

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  • Education promotes greater employment prospects, which in turn decreases levels of poverty experienced and allows children to be educated which helps to break the cycle
  • Health promoting behaviours are also enhanced with literacy
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Reasons why “ Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women” is Important ?

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  • To eliminate gender differences at all levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary)
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Reasons why “ Goal 4 - Reduce child mortality” is Important ?

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  • Children often die from easily preventable diseases

Children are the future of the country’s society and economy

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Reasons why “ Goal 5 - Improve maternal Health” is Important ?

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  • Maternal morality rates are high in developing countries
  • If mothers are in good health, they can take better care of their families
  • Providing access to reproductive health services means that women are better able take care of themselves and their children through seeking advice and treatment
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Reasons why “ Goal 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases” is Important ?

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  • Simple cost effective methods can reduce the risk of contracting Malaria and HIV
  • HIV reduces the impact of individuals to work to provide for their family
  • Thousands of children are orphaned which reduces their chance of education and a productive life
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Reasons why “ Goal 7 - Ensure Environmental Sustainability” is important ?

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  • Future generations can then provide for themselves and their children
  • Biodiversity is essential for future food supplies and income generation
  • Lack of water is responsible for many deaths each year
  • Hundreds of millions of people live in urban slums where the physical environment results in many deaths
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Reasons why “ Goal 8 - Develop a global partnership for development” is important ?

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  • There is a lot of potential for developing countries to improve their economies. This can improve health and human development outcomes
  • Developed countries have a large part to play in enhancing health and human development in developing countries by increasing aid, and wiping debt
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What are the three targets for “ Goal 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger” ?

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Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than US$1 a day
Target 2: Achieve full and production employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
Target 3: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

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What is the target for “ Goal 2 - Achieve universal primary education” ?

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Target 1: Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

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What is the target for “ Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women” ?

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Target 1: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education by no later than 2015 ,

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What is the target for “ Goal 4 - reduce child mortality” ?

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Target 1: reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

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What are the two targets for “ Goal 5 - Improve maternel health” ?

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Target 1: Reduce by three - quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
Target 2: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

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What are the three targets for “ Goal 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases “?

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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: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

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What are the four targets for “ Goal 7 - Ensure environmental sustainability”?

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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 significant 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 a least 100 million slum dwellers

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What are the three targets for “ Goal 8 - Develop a global partnership for development” ?

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Target 1: Address the special needs of the least developed countries, land-locked countries and small island developing status
Target 2: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Target 3: Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt

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What is Goal 1?

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Eradicate poverty and hunger

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What is Goal 2?

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Achieve universal primary education

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What is Goal 3?

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Promote Gender equality and empower women

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What is Goal 4?

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Reduce child mortality

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What is Goal 5?

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Improve maternal health

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What is Goal 6?

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Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

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What is Goal 7?

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Ensure Environmental sustainability

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What is Goal 8?

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Develop A global partnership for development

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What are the two situations that the goals are trying to fix?

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Environmental sustainability and extreme poverty

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What is the Millennium goal initiative?

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‘The Millennium Development Goals set time bound targets, by which progress in reducing income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and exclusion - While promoting gender equality, health, education and environmental sustainability - can be measured. They also embody basic human rights - The rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter and security. The Goals are ambitious but feasible and, together with the comprehensive United Nations development agenda, set the course for the Worlds efforts to alleviate extreme poverty by 2015’

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When was the declaration made for the 8 Goals?

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2000, the worlds leaders came together at the United Nations headquarters in New york and formalised the United Nations Millennium Declaration. This Declaration was endorsed by 189 countries, recognised the importance of all countries developing global partnerships that aimed to reduce extreme poverty and improve environmental sustainability

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Extreme poverty?

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or absolute poverty; people who live on less thatn US$1.25 a day

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Environmental sustainability

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the capacity to maintain the qualities within the physical environment that are considered to be important and valued, such as renewable resources

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