The Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges. The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.

These Millennium Development Goals are, in brief:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development




MDGs Opinion: United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
"We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual. We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers; to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed. So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will help to achieve the Goals."

MDGs Opinion: Authors of Paper For World Debt Day 2005 (Caroline Pearce, Romilly Greenhill and Jonathan Glennie) “The Millennium Development Goals … will not be met for 100 years at current trends! These are not notional goals for the TOTAL eradication of poverty, but were intended as achievable, realistic goals simply for the partial alleviation of EXTREME poverty, by 2015.”

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