Millenium Development Goals

In September 2000, leaders of 189 countries gathered in New York, signed a pact during the Millennium Summit, sponsored by the United Nations (UN). In that agreement, the Millennium Declaration was born. The Millennium Declaration has established the priority to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger in the world by 2015. For this purpose, eight goals were defined:  the MDG to be achieved through specific actions to combat hunger and poverty, associated with the implementation of health policies, sanitation, environment, education, housing, promotion of gender equality and compact for development.

The targets were detailed in eight goals, which may be accompanied by a set of 43 socioeconomic indicators.

In Brazil, the actions to achieve the MDG were initiated in 2004 with the founding of the National Movement for Citizenship and Solidarity.

ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than one dollar a day by 2015;

ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
Ensure that by 2015, all children of both genders complete a full course of primary schooling.

PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
Eliminate gender disparity in education by 2005.

REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
By 2015, reduce by two thirds the mortality of children under 5 years.

IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
By 2015, reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate.

COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES
By 2015, have halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other diseases.

ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs, and reverse the loss of environmental resources by 2015;
Halve, by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water;
Achieve by 2020 a significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
Advance in the development of a commercial and financial system that is based on rules, predictable and nondiscriminatory, including nationally and internationally a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction;
Attend to the special needs of the least developed countries, including: regime free of rights and not subject to quotas on exports of least developed countries; enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; annulment of official bilateral debt; and public aid to development, more generous to countries engaged in the fight against poverty;
Attend the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States;
Deal globally with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term;
In cooperation with developing countries, to formulate and implement strategies that enable youth to obtain decent and productive work;
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.