» Eradicate extreme
poverty and hunger
Target for 2015: Halve the proportion of people living on less
than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger.
More than a billion people still live on less than US$1 a day:
sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and parts
of Europe and Central Asia are falling short of the poverty
target.
»Achieve universal
primary education
Target for 2015: Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary
school.
As many as 113 million children do not attend school, but the
target is within reach. India, for example, should have 95 percent
of its children in school by 2005.
» Promote gender
equality and empower women
Targets for 2005 and 2015: Eliminate gender disparities in primary
and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels
by 2015.
Two-thirds of illiterates are women, and the rate of employment
among women is two-thirds that of men. The proportion of seats
in parliaments held by women is increasing, reaching about one
third in Argentina, Mozambique and South Africa.
» Reduce child mortality
Target for 2015: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among
children under five
Every year nearly 11 million young children die before their
fifth birthday, mainly from preventable illnesses, but that
number is down from 15 million in 1980.
» Improve maternal
health
Target for 2015: Reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women
dying in childbirth.
In the developing world, the risk of dying in childbirth is
one in 48, but virtually all countries now have safe motherhood
programmes.
» Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other diseases
Target for 2015: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
Forty million people are living with HIV, including five million
newly infected in 2001. Countries like Brazil, Senegal, Thailand
and Uganda have shown that the spread of HIV can be stemmed.
» Ensure environmental
sustainability
Targets:
• Integrate the principles of sustainable development
into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of
environmental resources.
• By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without
access to safe drinking water.
• By 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives
of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
More than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water
and more than two billion lack sanitation. During the 1990s,
however, nearly one billion people gained access to safe water
and the same number to sanitation.
» Develop a global
partnership for development
Targets:
• Develop further an open trading and financial system
that includes a commitment to good governance, development and
poverty reduction – nationally and internationally
• Address the least developed countries’ special
needs, and the special needs of landlocked and small island
developing States
• Deal comprehensively with developing countries’
debt problems
• 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.
Many developing countries spend more on debt service than on
social services. New aid commitments made in the first half of
2002 could mean an additional $12 billion per year by 2006.
