Progress on
MDG’s
The MDGs are a set of specific, quantified
and time-bound targets on the various dimensions of human development- income
poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, and environmental
sustainability. MDGs are too important to
fail. For the international political system, they are the fulcrums on which
development policy is based. World leaders of the Millennium Declaration
promised to work together to meet concrete targets for advancing development
based on fundamental values in the Millennium Declaration.
Fundamental Values in the Millennium
Declaration
1. Freedom: Democratic and participatory governance based on the
will of the people best assures these rights
2.
Equality: the equal
rights and opportunities of women and men must be assured
3.
Solidarity: those who
suffer or who benefit least deserve help from those who benefit most.
4.
Tolerence: a culture
of peace and dialogue among all civilizations should be actively promoted.
5.
Respect for nature: the management of all living species and
natural resources, in accordance with the precepts of sustainable development.
Production and consumption must be changed in the interest of our future
welfare and that of our descendants.
6.
Shared responsibility: responsibility
for managing worldwide economic and social development, and threats to
international peace and security.
At
highest political level, that poverty in the poorest countries can be reduced
if well-designed and well-implemented plans are put in place by developing
countries and if rich countries simultaneously match their efforts with
substantial increases in support. There are 8 goals of Millennium
Development.
|
Millennium Development Goals
|
|
Goals
|
Targets
|
|
1.
eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2.
achieve universal primary education
3.
promote gender equality and empower women
4.
reduce child mortality
5.
improve maternal health
6.combat
HIV/AIDS, Malaria & other diseases
7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
8. Develop a Global Partnership for
Development
|
1. between
1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar
a day
2. between
1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
3. ensure
children everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary
schooling until 2015.
4. Eliminate
gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005 and
at all levels of education no later than 2015
5. Reduce by
half, between 1990 and 2015, the under 5 mortality rate.
6. reduce by three-quarters,
between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality rate
7. have health and begun to reserve the spread
of HIV/AIDS by 2015.
8. have health
and begun to reserve the incidence of malaria and other major diseases by
2015.
9.integrate
the principles of sustainable development into country policies and
programmes and reserve the loss of environmental resources.
10. halve, by
2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinks
water
11. achieve a
significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by
2020.
12. further
develop an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and
financial system (including a commitment to good governance, development and
poverty reduction) both nationally and internationally.
13. address
the special needs of the least developed countries through measure including
tariff-and-quota-free access for exports, an enhanced programme of debt
relieve and a cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official
development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
14. address
special needs of land-locked countries and small island developing states.
15. deal
comprehensively with the debt problem of developing countries through
national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the
long term.
15. deal comprehensively with the
debt problem of developing countries through national and international
measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
16. in cooperation with
developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and
productive work for youth.
17. in cooperation with
pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in
developing countries.
18. in cooperation with the
private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially
information and communication technologies.
|
For people living in extreme poverty, the MDGs
represent the potential for a better life in two ways. First, the goals are
ends in themselves, in that reduced hunger, gender equality, improved health
and education and broader access to safe water and sanitation are of direct
benefit to the people. Second, the achievement of the goals could also
contribute to economic growth and further development. As such, reducing
poverty and respecting human rights are important pre-requisites to peace and
stability.
Bibliography
United Nation Department of
Economic and Social Affairs. 2007. Governance
for the Millennium Development Goals, Core Issues and Good Practices. New
York: United Nation.
