Millennium Development Goals

• The United Nations Millennium Development Objectives(MDGs) are a series of eight-millennium development goals decided in September 2000 by the 189 Member states of the United States to be accomplished by 2015
• At the September worldwide conference meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Millennium Declaration was signed, and the 149 international leaders in presence pledged to combat sickness, hunger, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination against women, and destruction of the environment
• The MDGs were generated from this Proclamation and were supplemented with targeted information and objectives
• The United Nations Population Fund was previously known as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. United Nations Population Fund is a United Nations institution dedicated to global maternal and newborn health

The Eight-Millennium Development Goals

• Goal 1: The first eight-millennium development goal was to ensure that severe poverty and hunger are eradicated
• Goal 2: The second eight-millennium development goal was to ensure universal elementary education
• Goal 3: The third eight-millennium development goal was to promote social justice and female empowerment
• Goal 4: The fourth eight-millennium development goal was to reduce child mortality
• Goal 5: The fifth eight-millennium development goal was to decrease child mortality
• Goal 6: The sixth eight-millennium development goal was to prevent malaria, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious illnesses
• Goal 7: The seventh eight-millennium development goal was to ensure ecological responsibility
• Goal 8: The eighth eight-millennium development goal was to establish worldwide development cooperation

Goal 1 Targets

• To achieve a 50% reduction in the share of persons with a daily income of less than $1.25
• To attain full and fruitful work for everyone, especially young people and women, as well as good work for all
• To achieve a 50% reduction in the number of undernourished people between 1990 and 2015

Goal 2 Target

• To guarantee that all children can finish an entire program of elementary education by 2015
• Hunger and malnutrition have had a significant impact on the learning abilities of rural youngsters
• All initiatives for education and food security are brought together under social welfare, resulting in greater efficiency

Goal 3 Target

• By 2005, gender disparities in elementary education will be eliminated and disparities in all stages of schooling will be eliminated by 2015
• Food security will be impossible to accomplish without gender equality and economic and social advancement for rural women
• Women should be empowered, and gender equality should be promoted throughout schooling

Goal 4 Target

• To achieve a two-thirds reduction in well under fatality between 1990 and 2015
• More than 33% of all fatalities in children under the age of five are believed to be due to malnutrition. As a result of measures to enhance family food and nutrition security, children’s chances of reaching adulthood have improved

Goal 5 Target

• To bring the spread of HIV/AIDS to a stop by 2015 and begin reversing it
• By 2010, universal access to HIV/AIDS therapy for all in need will be achieved
• By 2015, the incidence of malaria and other major illnesses will have ended and the trend toward reversal will have begun

Goal 6 Target

• To halt by 2015 and have started to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• To have ceased and started a reversal of the incidence of malaria and other major diseases by 2015

Goal 7 Target

• To incorporate environmental sustainability concepts into all nations’ policies and programmes, as well as to halt the loss of natural resources
• To halt biodiversity loss and significantly slow the pace of loss by 2010.
• By 2015, half of the world’s population would lack sustained access to clean, safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
• To drastically enhance the lives of at least 100 million slum inhabitants by 2020.

Goal 8 Target

• To continue developing a transparent, predictable, rule-based, and nondiscriminatory trade and economic system.
• To meet the unique requirements of the world’s least developed nations.
• To respond to the unique requirements of tiny island developing states and landlocked developing nations.
• To comprehensively address the debt concerns of emerging countries.
• To increase access to cheap vital medications in underdeveloped countries — in conjunction with pharmaceutical corporations.
• To capitalise on the advantages of emerging technology, particularly information and communication technologies, in conjunction with the corporate companies.

India’s Achievement in MDGs:

• MDGs features Signatories to the Millennium Declaration, which was adopted by the Un-Conference in September 2000 and has committed to achieving the UNGA’s eight key growth targets
• India’s achievement in MDGs is aligned with India’s own development goals, which include a reduction in child mortality, poverty, and other issues
• India’s achievement in MDGs has made great progress toward achieving the eight-millennium development goals, with several targets being fulfilled ahead of the 2015 deadline, although progress has been erratic
• An example of India’s achievement in MDGs is that India has accomplished the aim of halving poverty but is falling short of the target of halving hunger, according to official government estimates

Conclusion

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were groundbreaking in that they established a single vocabulary for reaching global consensus. With a clear measurement method, the eight goals were feasible and easy to explain. The Millennium Declaration and its commitment to development as a right led the approach, with special attention paid to traditionally marginalised groups including ethnic minority groups, native communities, and women.