| Goals/Targets |
MDGs Progress |
WFWP's Activities |
 Goal 1.
Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger
Target 1:
Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a
dollar a day
Target 2:
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger |
Global poverty rates are falling, led by Asia. But millions more people have
sunk deep into poverty in sub- Saharan Africa, where the poor are getting
poorer.
Progress has been made against hunger, but slow growth of agricultural
output and expanding populations have led to setbacks in some regions. Since
1990, millions more people are chronically hungry in sub- Saharan Africa and
in Southern Asia, where half the children under age 5 are malnourished. |
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 Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education
Target 3:
Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary
schooling
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Five developing regions are approaching universal enrolment. But in
sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than two thirds of children are enrolled in
primary school.
Other regions, including Southern Asia and Oceania, also have a long way to
go. In these regions and elsewhere, increased enrolment must be accompanied
by efforts to ensure that all children remain in school and receive a
high-quality education.
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 Goal 3 Promote gender equality & empower women
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education
preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 |
The gender gap is closing ? albeit slowly ? in primary school enrolment in
the developing world. This is a first step towards easing long-standing
inequalities between women and men. In almost all developing regions, women
represent a smaller share of wage earners than men and are often relegated
to insecure and poorly paid jobs. |
Though progress is being made, women still lack equal representation at the
highest levels of government, holding only 16 per cent of parliamentary
seats worldwide. |
 Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five |
Death rates in children under age 5 are dropping. But not fast enough.
Eleven million children a year ? 30,000 a day ? die from preventable or
treatable causes. Most of these lives could be saved by expanding existing
programmes that promote simple, low-cost solutions. |
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 Goal 5 Improve maternal health
Target 6: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio |
More than half a million women die each year during pregnancy or childbirth.
Twenty times that number suffer serious injury or disability. Some progress
has been made in reducing maternal deaths in developing regions, but not in
the countries where giving birth is most risky. |
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 Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases
Target 7: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major
diseases |
AIDS has become the leading cause of premature death in sub-Saharan Africa
and the fourth largest killer worldwide. In the European countries of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and parts of Asia, HIV is spreading
at an alarming rate. Though new drug treatments prolong life, there is no
cure for AIDS, and prevention efforts must be intensified in every region of
the world if the target is to be reached. |
Malaria and tuberculosis together kill nearly as many people each year as
AIDS, and represent a severe drain on national economies. Ninety per cent of
malaria deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where prevention and treatment
efforts are being scaled up. Tuberculosis is on the rise, partly as a result
of HIV/AIDS, though a new international protocol to detect and treat the
disease is showing promise. |
 Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 10: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water
Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million
slum dwellers, by 2020 |
Most countries have committed to the principles of sustainable development.
But this has not resulted in sufficient progress to reverse the loss of the
worldfs environmental resources. Achieving the goal will require greater
attention to the plight of the poor, whose day-to-day subsistence is often
directly linked to the natural resources around them, and an unprecedented
level of global cooperation. Action to prevent further deterioration of the
ozone layer shows that progress is possible. |
Access to safe drinking water has increased, but half the developing world
still lack toilets or other forms of basic sanitation. Nearly 1 billion
people live in urban slums because the growth of the urban population is
outpacing improvements in housing and the availability of productive jobs. |
 Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development
Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement
strategies for decent and productive work for youth.
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications |
The United Nations Millennium Declaration represents a global social
compact: developing countries will do more to ensure their own development,
and developed countries will support them through aid, debt relief and
better opportunities for trade. Progress in each of these areas has already
begun to yield results. But developed countries have fallen short of targets
they have set for themselves. |
To achieve the Millennium Development Goals, increased aid and debt relief
must be accompanied by further opening of trade, accelerated transfer of
technology and improved employment opportunities for the growing ranks of
young people in the developing world. |
