è THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS & SUSTAINABLE GOALS:
The United Nation’s Millennium Development
Goals are the 8 goals set by the 189 UN member states in September. 2000 and
agreed try to achieve by the year 2015.
The 8 millennium development goals are:
· To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
· To achieve universal primary education
· To empower woman and promote gender equality
· To reduce child mortality
· To promote maternal health
· To fight malaria, HIV or AIDS and other
diseases
· To ensure environmental sustainability
· To develop a global partnership for
development
vTARGETS OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
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Goal 1
targets:
ü To halve the proportion of people whose daily
income is less than $1.25.
ü To achieve full and productive employment, as
well as decent work for all.
ü To halve the proportion of individuals
suffering from hunger in the period between 1990 and 2015.
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Goal 2
target:
ü To ensure that children will be able to
complete a full course of primary education by 2015.
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Goal 3
target:
ü To eliminate gender disparity in primary and
secondary education by 2005 and in all levels of Education, by 2015.
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Goal 4
target:
ü To reduce the under- five mortality rate by
two thirds in the period between 1990 and 2015.
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Goal 5
targets:
ü To reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75%.
ü To achieve universal access to reproductive
health.
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Goal 6
targets:
ü To halt by 2015 and have started to reverse
the spread of HIV/AIDS.
ü To achieve universal access to treatment for
HIV/AIDS for all those who need it by 2010.
ü To have halted by 2015 and started reversal of
the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
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Goal 7
targets:
ü To integrate the principles of sustainable
development in every nation’s policy and programs. And also reverse the
depletion of environmental resources.
ü To reduce biodiversity loss and achieve a
substantial reduction in the rate of loss by 2010.
ü To halve by 2015 the proportion of the
universal population without sustainable access to clean and safe drinking
water and basic sanitation.
ü To achieve substantial improvement in the
lives of minimum of 100 million slump dwellers by 2020
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Goal 8
targets:
ü To develop an open predictable rule based non
discriminative trading and economic system.
ü To address special needs of the least
developed countries, small island developing states and landlocked developing
countries.
ü To deal exhaustively with the debt problems of
developing nations.
ü To provide access to affordable, essential
drugs in the developing countries in collaboration with pharmaceutical
companies.
ü To avail benefits of new technologies,
especially information and communication in collaboration with the private
sector.
v SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
The
sustainable development goals, also known as global goals, are universal
agreement to end poverty and all its dimensions and secure world for people and
planet. It ensured that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
The
17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets are part of this agenda.
5P’s
of sustainable development are:
§ Planet
§ People
§ Prosperity
§ Peace
§ Partnership.
The
four major components of sustainable development are (i) Human, (ii) Social,
(iii) Economic, (iv) Environment
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THE 17
SUSTAINABLE GOALS ARE:
ü No Poverty
ü Zero Hunger
ü Good Health and Well-being
ü Quality Education
ü Gender Equality
ü Clean Water and Sanitation
ü Affordable and Clean Energy
ü Decent Work and Economic Growth
ü Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
ü Reduced Inequalities
ü Sustainable Cities and Communities
ü Responsible Consumption and Production
ü Climate Action
ü Life Below Water
ü Life on Land
ü Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
ü Partnerships for the Goals
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