Transcript The Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals
“The alleviation of material suffering in the
world and the spiritual renewal of the church
go hand in hand.” - The Rev. Dr. Sabina Alkire
This is our world
This is our world
If the world were 10 people…
5 would be men. 5 would be women.
2 would be white. 8 would be non-white.
2 would have a good home to live in. 8 would not.
3 would be able to read. 7 would not.
7 would have safe water to drink.
3 would have no water or water that made them sick
5 would be malnourished. 5 would get enough to eat each day.
7 would have electricity. 3 would not.
But of the 7 that did, most would use it only for light at night.
1 would have internet access. 9 would not
6 would have improved sanitation (toilets, trash services), 4 would not
2 would control 86 percent of the world’s wealth.
6 would live on less than $2 a day
What Are The MDGs?
-Eight goals
-Each goal has measurable targets
-Agreed to by 189 countries at the
Millennium Summit in 2000
-A plan to address the deepest
material brokenness in the world
today.
A snapshot of the
world in 2008
More than 1 billion people
are living on
less than US$1 a day
A child under 5 dies
every three seconds of
preventable, treatable causes
– nearly 30,000 a day.
A snapshot of the
world in 2008
500,000 women a year die
from complications from
childbirth and pregnancy
(1 in 16 in sub-Saharan Africa)
115 million school-aged
children aren’t able
to be in school.
A snapshot of the
world in 2008
In the world as a whole,
women comprise
51 percent of the population,
do 66 percent of the work,
receive 10 percent of the
income and own less than
one percent of the property
The MDGs – Goal 1
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
– Target 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
proportion of people whose income is less
than $1 a day
– Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
proportion of people who suffer from hunger
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The MDGs – Goal 2
Achieve universal primary education
– Target 3. Ensure that, by 2015, children
everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able
to complete a full course of primary schooling
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The MDGs – Goal 3
Promote gender equality and empower
women
– Target 4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary
and secondary education, preferably by 2005,
and in all levels of education no later than
2015
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The MDGs – Goal 4
Reduce child mortality
– Target 5. Reduce by two-thirds, between
1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
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The MDGs – Goal 5
Improve maternal health
– Target 6. Reduce by three-quarters, between
1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
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The MDGs – Goal 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other
diseases
– Target 7. Have halted by 2015 and begun to
reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
– Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to
reverse the incidence of malaria and other
major diseases
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The MDGs – Goal 7
Ensure environmental sustainability
– Target 9. Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into country policies and programs and
reverse the loss of environmental resources
– Target 10. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people
without sustainable access to safe drinking water and
basic sanitation
– Target 11. Have achieved by 2020 a significant
improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum
dwellers
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The MDGs – Goal 8
Develop a global partnership for sustainable development
– Target 12. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable,
nondiscriminatory trading and financial system
– Target 13. Address the special needs of the Least Developed
Countries
– Target 14. Address the special needs of landlocked developing
countries and small island developing
– Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of
developing countries.
– Target 16. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and
implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
– Target 17. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing
countries
– Target 18. In cooperation with the private sector, make available
the benefits of new technologies.
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Why should we care
about the MDGs?
Because
Christians have
always cared
about the MDGs
… even before
there were the
MDGs.
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Why should we care
about the MDGs?
Because the
world is on fire,
and it’s all of our
problem.
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Why should we care
about the MDGs?
Because in the
MDGs, Christ is
drawing us
together.
Because the
MDGs are about
global
reconciliation.
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heal a broken world.
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