Millennium Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals

1. GOAL 1 - Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger

   • Extreme Poverty rates cut by more than 1/2 since 1990

2. GOAL 2 - Achieve Universal Primary Education

   • enrolment in developing regions reached 91%

3. GOAL 3 - Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women

   • World has achieved equality in primary ed between boys & girls

4. GOAL 4 - Reduce Child Mortality

5. GOAL 5 - Improve Maternal Health

6. GOAL 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria & other diseases

   • 2000-2013 new HIV injection fell by 40%
   • 37 million tuberculosis deaths averted

7. GOAL 7 - Ensure Environmental Sustainabilty

8. GOAL 8 - Global Partnership for Deelopment

9. Barriers to Success

   • Huge scale of problem
   • Global economic crisis
   • Unforseen events eg. Syrian civil war, earhquakes
   • circumstances vary country to country

10. Successes

    • 1/5 counties 1/2 share of its population living on less than $1.25
    • Kids enrolled in primary ed increased in 90% of countries
    • 95% of countries succeeded in decreasing incidence of child mortality

11. Top-Down