United Nations Millennium Development Goals
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a set of eight global development goals established by the United Nations in the year 2000. The goals were designed to address key development challenges and improve social and economic conditions in developing countries by 2015. The MDGs built on previous international agreements and aimed to galvanise global action and cooperation towards poverty reduction and sustainable development.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger: To halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty and hunger, ensuring access to basic needs such as food, clean water, and sanitation.
Achieve universal primary education: To ensure that all children, girls and boys alike, complete primary schooling and have access to quality education.
Promote gender equality and empower women: To eliminate gender disparities in education and empower women, ensuring equal access to opportunities and resources.
Reduce child mortality: To reduce child mortality rates by improving access to healthcare, immunisations, and essential treatments.
Improve maternal health: To improve maternal health by reducing maternal mortality rates, increasing access to quality reproductive healthcare, and promoting family planning.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases: To combat major diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases by preventing new infections, ensuring treatment availability, and supporting research and development.
Ensure environmental sustainability: To promote environmental sustainability, including addressing climate change, preserving biodiversity, and ensuring access to clean energy and water.
Develop a global partnership for development: To foster a global partnership for development, including increasing aid, promoting trade, debt relief, and technology transfer to support the efforts of developing countries.
The MDGs were widely adopted by UN member states and served as a guiding framework for national and international development efforts over the 15-year period from 2000 to 2015. While progress was made in several areas, not all goals were fully achieved in every country. The MDGs provided valuable lessons and paved the way for the subsequent adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, which expanded on the MDGs and incorporated a broader range of economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger: To halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty and hunger, ensuring access to basic needs such as food, clean water, and sanitation.
Achieve universal primary education: To ensure that all children, girls and boys alike, complete primary schooling and have access to quality education.
Promote gender equality and empower women: To eliminate gender disparities in education and empower women, ensuring equal access to opportunities and resources.
Reduce child mortality: To reduce child mortality rates by improving access to healthcare, immunisations, and essential treatments.
Improve maternal health: To improve maternal health by reducing maternal mortality rates, increasing access to quality reproductive healthcare, and promoting family planning.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases: To combat major diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases by preventing new infections, ensuring treatment availability, and supporting research and development.
Ensure environmental sustainability: To promote environmental sustainability, including addressing climate change, preserving biodiversity, and ensuring access to clean energy and water.
Develop a global partnership for development: To foster a global partnership for development, including increasing aid, promoting trade, debt relief, and technology transfer to support the efforts of developing countries.
The MDGs were widely adopted by UN member states and served as a guiding framework for national and international development efforts over the 15-year period from 2000 to 2015. While progress was made in several areas, not all goals were fully achieved in every country. The MDGs provided valuable lessons and paved the way for the subsequent adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, which expanded on the MDGs and incorporated a broader range of economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
