The Millennium Development Goals are a key set of targets for reducing poverty and creating a more sustainable world. They were adopted by 189 UN members states at the Millennium Summit in September 2000 and endorsed by UCLG's members at its Founding Congress in Paris in May 2004.
1. Halve extreme poverty and hunger
Target for 2015: Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger.
2. Achieve universal primary education
Target for 2015: Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school.
3. Empower women and promote equality between women and men
Targets for 2005 and 2015: Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
4. Reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds
Target for 2015: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
5. Reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters
Target for 2015: Reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women dying in childbirth.
6. Reverse the spread of killer diseases, especially HIV/AIDS and malaria
Target for 2015: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
Targets:
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water.
By 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
8. Create a global partnership for development, with targets for aid, trade and debt relief
Targets:
Develop further an open trading and financial system that includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction – nationally and internationally
Address the least developed countries’ special needs, and the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems
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
