MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS)

GOAL 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER

Target : Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
Target : Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION GOAL MET

Target : Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Target : Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015

GOAL 4: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

Target : Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

GOAL 5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

Target : Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

GOAL 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES

Target : Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Target : Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Target : Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Target : Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Target : By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

Target : Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system
Target : Address the special needs of the least developed countries
Target : Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States
Target : Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term