Millennium Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

   • Reduce by 50% the prportion ofpeople suffering from hunger and living on less than 1 pound a day

2. Achieve universal primary education

   • Ensure all children complete and full course of primary schooling

3. Promote gender equality and empower women

   • Woman's equal representation in national parliaments

4. Reduce child mortality

   • Reduce by two-thirds the under-5 moraltiy rate

5. Improve maternal health

   • Reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75%

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

   • Halt aand being to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

   • Reverse loss of forests
   • Halve proportion without omproved drinking water in urban/rural areas

8. Develop global partnership for development

   • Reduce youth employment