List and describe in your own word the 8 United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Specifically describe the economic, environmental, social and technical challenges associated with meeting each of the goals within the next 5 years.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger:
? Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
? Target 1. B Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women na dyoung people
? Target 1.C Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education
? Target 2. A Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

3. Promote gender equality and empowerment in women
? Target 3.A Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.

4. Reduce child mortality
? Target 4. A Reduce by two thirds the under five mortality rate

5. Improve maternal health
? Target 5 A. Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

6. Combat HIV/Aids, malaria, and other diseases
? Target 6. A Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
? Target 6. B Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all who need it
? Target 6. C Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability
? Target 7. A integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
? Target 7. B Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
? Target 7. C Halve by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
? Target 7. D By 202, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

8. Develop a global partnership for development
? Target 8. A develop an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
? Target 8. B and C Address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island States
? Target 8. D Deal comprehensively with developing countries debt
? Target 8. F In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications