UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
By the year 2015, all 191 United Nations Member States have pledged to meet these goals


Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

 


Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day

Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
   


Achieve universal primary education

 


Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

   


Promote gender equality and empower women

 


Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

   


Reduce child mortality

 


Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

   


Improve maternal health

 


Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

   


Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

 


Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

     


Ensure environmental sustainability

 


Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources

Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

     


Develop a global partnership for development




CEN-SAD Project

 


Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally

Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction

Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies