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Friday, July 17, 2015

A DELAYED SUCCESS IS BETTER THAN A TOTAL FAILURE



In September 2005, At the UN World Summit all 191 United Nation Member states pledged to meet the eight goals by 2015
"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."
United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi A. Annan
Goal 1:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day.
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Goal 2:
Achieve universal primary education.
Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
Goal 3:
Promote gender equality and empower woman.
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
Goal 4:
Reduce child mortality.
Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
Goal 5:
Improve maternal health
Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
Goal 6:
Combat HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Goal 7
Ensure Environmental sustainability
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
Goal 8
Develop global partnership for development.
Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory, includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction— nationally and internationally
Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
In cooperation with the developing countries, 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
UN Website

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