The 8 Millennium Goals were designed by the United Nations to target everything from extreme poverty and hunger to ensuring environmental sustainability by the year 2015. The main goal was to achieve sustainable prosperity and development for everyone with the exclusion of race, location, and gender.
To achieve this goal the efforts of numerous amounts of people are required. Environmentalists, governments, scientists, and businesses are combining efforts to successfully attain these 8 objectives.
Figure 1.1-This picture depicts 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls going to school. This would represent Goal 2.It also represents the equality of school children that will soon be required by 2015.
Goal 1. Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty Target 1. Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion whose income is less than one dollar a day.
Indicator-Proportion of population below 1$ (PPP) per day Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
Indicator- Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age
- Proportion of populations below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education Target 3. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and s alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
Indicator- Net enrolment ratio in primary education
- Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds
Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women Target 4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
Indicator- Ratio of s to boys in primary, secondary, and tertiary education
- Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old
- Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
Goal 4. Reduce child mortality Target 5. Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
Indicator- Under-five mortality rate
- Infant mortality rate
- Proportion of 1-year-old children immunized against measles
Goal 5. Improve maternal health Target 6. Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
Indicator- Maternal mortality ratio
Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases Target 7. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Indicator- HIV prevalence among women aged 15-24 years
- use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
Indicator- Prevalence of rates associated with malaria
- Prevalence and rates associated with tuberculosis
Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability Target 9. Integrate the principles of sustainable development in to country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Indicator- Proportion of land area covered by forest
- Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area
- Energy use Target 10. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
Indicator- Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural
- Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural Target 11. By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
Indicator- Proportion of households with access to secure tenure (home)
Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development Target 12. Develop further an open, rule-based,predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Target 13. Address the special needs of the least developed countries Target 14. Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly) Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
Indicator-Proportion of total bilateral, sector allocable aid to basic social services (basic education, primary healthcare, nutrition, safe water, and sanitation)
- Debt relief commited Target 16. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.
Indicator- Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each and total Target 17. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential in developing countries
Indicator- Proportion of population with access to affordable essential on sustainable basis Target 18. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
Indicator- Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population
- Personal computers in use per 100 population Internet users per 100 population
To achieve this goal the efforts of numerous amounts of people are required. Environmentalists, governments, scientists, and businesses are combining efforts to successfully attain these 8 objectives.
Figure 1.1-This picture depicts 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls going to school. This would represent Goal 2.It also represents the equality of school children that will soon be required by 2015.
Goal 1. Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Target 1. Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion whose income is less than one dollar a day.
Indicator-Proportion of population below 1$ (PPP) per day
Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
Indicator- Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age
- Proportion of populations below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education
Target 3. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and s alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
Indicator- Net enrolment ratio in primary education
- Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds
Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
Indicator- Ratio of s to boys in primary, secondary, and tertiary education
- Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old
- Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
Target 5. Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
Indicator- Under-five mortality rate
- Infant mortality rate
- Proportion of 1-year-old children immunized against measles
Goal 5. Improve maternal health
Target 6. Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
Indicator- Maternal mortality ratio
Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Target 7. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Indicator- HIV prevalence among women aged 15-24 years
- use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate
Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
Indicator- Prevalence of rates associated with malaria
- Prevalence and rates associated with tuberculosis
Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9. Integrate the principles of sustainable development in to country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Indicator- Proportion of land area covered by forest
- Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area
- Energy use
Target 10. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
Indicator- Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural
- Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural
Target 11. By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
Indicator- Proportion of households with access to secure tenure (home)
Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development
Target 12. Develop further an open, rule-based,predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Target 13. Address the special needs of the least developed countries
Target 14. Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly)
Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
Indicator-Proportion of total bilateral, sector allocable aid to basic social services (basic education, primary healthcare, nutrition, safe water, and sanitation)
- Debt relief commited
Target 16. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.
Indicator- Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each and total
Target 17. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential in developing countries
Indicator- Proportion of population with access to affordable essential on sustainable basis
Target 18. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
Indicator- Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population
- Personal computers in use per 100 population Internet users per 100 population
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