MDGs: Targets & Indicators
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Halve the proportion of people
living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger.
About 900 million
people are estimated to live in slum-like conditions characterized by insecure
tenure, inadequate housing, and a lack of access to water or sanitation.
2. Achieve universal primary education
Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school.
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably
by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
Seventy-four
countries, with more than one-third of the world’s population, are not on track
to halve income poverty by 2015.
Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.
Ninety-three
countries, with 62 percent of the world’s population, are not on track to
reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.
6.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other major
diseases.
Eleven million
children below age five still die every year from preventable causes – about
30.000 a day.
By the end of 2001, an estimated 13 million children
under 15 had lost one or both parents to AIDS in
7.
Ensure environmental sustainability
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies
and programmes and reverse loss of environmental
resources; reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access
to safe drinking water and achieve significant improvement in lives of at least
100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
Each year, roughly 15
million hectares of forest are cleared, generally in developing countries,
resulting in increases in vector-borne diseases, declines in the quantity and
quality of water, and more floods, landslides, and local climate changes.
8. Develop
a global partnership for development
Source:
UNDP website: http://www.undp.org/mdg/