Transcript Millennium Development goals (MDGs) These were aspirations set by

Millennium
Development goals
(MDGs)
These were aspirations set by
the UN in 2000 to help improve
the lot of the world’s poor
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There widespread calls to cancel debt
in the poor countries
Debt Campaign has its roots in Jubilee
2000 and earlier campaigns for the
cancellation of poor country debt.
Why? Poor countries were using much of
their income to pay interest on the huge
debts they had accumulated over the
years.
This meant they could not afford to
improve health care, clean water
availability or education. This left their
people very poor
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Wayne
Botha
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Extreme poverty:
what is it?
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The number of people
living on less than
50p per day:
over 1 billion
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That’s more than the
populations of
the EU, USA, Canada,
Australia and Japan
combined.
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The number of children
dying from preventable
diseases EVERY DAY:
28,000
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That’s like
the 2004 tsunami
happening every week.
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The number of people
without basic sanitation:
2.6 billion
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Imagine living without
running water, or a
flushing toilet.
A third of the world’s
population does.
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The number of children
receiving no basic education:
72 million
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What sort of job
are you likely to get
if you can’t even write
your own name?
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And debt makes
everything
worse...
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The developing world owes
$2 trillion
in foreign debts.
($2,000,000,000,000)
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Debt repayments drain the
poorest countries of resources.
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Basic services receive
less funding...
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…and
people
stay
trapped
by
poverty.
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It was because of these ideas and the
pressure put on by Jubilee 2000
.. among other groups that UNESCO got
together the Millennium Goals.
It was the Millennium and the world ought to
make an effort to do something special
If they were to release the poor countries from
debt, then the rich countries would only agree if
the released money was spent on things that
improve the lot of the ordinary people – they did
not want more wasted by dictators and armies!
So it was decided that the whole world
together, in terms of poor countries themselves
and the richer ones with their AID programs,
would put all their efforts into achieving certain
things by 2015.
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Europe
North America
Asia
8 promises made by over
191 countries
Africa
South America
Australia
Deadline 2015
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By Zarina
GOAL # 1
Eradicate extreme
poverty and hunger
Halve the
proportion of people
whose income is less
than one dollar a
day.
Halve the
proportion of people
who suffer from
hunger.
Deadline 201522
Did you know that?
Almost 1 billion people in the
world (21%) are still living on
less than $ 1 per day.
Half of the world’s total
population, or 3 billion people,
survive on less than
$ 2 per day.
Are we keeping our promise?
Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges in
meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
East Asia and South Asia together are still home to the
greatest number of absolute poor people in the world.
Latin America and the Caribbean saw fairly stagnant
poverty rates.
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GOAL # 2
Achieve universal
primary education
Ensure that boys
and girls everywhere
will be able to
complete a full
course of primary
schooling.
Deadline 2015 24
Did you know that?
113 million children are denied
their right to an education.
In the Asia-Pacific region, 122
million children under the age
of 14 leave school to become
child labourers.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 49
million children work.
There are 43 million children in
the world who are out of school
due to conflict.
Over 10 million children have been
psychologically traumatized by
armed conflict.
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93 Million Children without Access to School
Number of primary-school-age children not in school, by region
(2006)
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GOAL # 3
Promote gender
equality and
empower women
Eliminate gender
disparity
in primary and
secondary education,
preferably by 2005,
and in all levels of
education no later
than 2015.
Deadline 2015
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Did you know that?
Did you know that over
61 million girls are missing an
education, compared to 54
million boys.
That’s as many girls as ALL
the school-age girls in North
America and Europe.
Giving girls an education can mean the
difference between life and death.
• She doesn’t have to work at hard
and dangerous labour.
• She doesn’t have to work on the
streets.
• She can make informed choices.
• Her babies have less chance of
suffering from malnutrition.
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GOAL # 4
Reduce Child Mortality
Estimated number of under-five
deaths, by region (2006)
Reduce by
two-thirds
the underfive
mortality
rate.
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Did you know that?
Every day, on average more
than 26,000 children under
the age of five die around
the world, mostly from
preventable causes.
Are NATIONS keeping their promise?
Many developing countries face challenges ahead
in improving the odds for children.
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GOAL # 5
Improve
maternal health
Reduce by three
quarters the
maternal
mortality ratio.
Maternal deaths estimated at 536,000
Latin America/
Caribbean
15,000
Developed
Regions/CIS
countries
2,760
Northern Africa
5,700
South-Eastern/
Western Asia
43,300
Sub-Saharan
Africa
270,000
South Asia
188,000
Eastern Asia
9,200
Deadline 201531
Did you know that?
Women in high-fertility
countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa have a
1-in-16 lifetime risk of
dying from maternal causes.
Women in low-fertility
countries in Europe have a
1-in-2,000 risk of
dying from maternal causes.
Women in North America
have a 1-in-3,500 risk of
dying.
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GOAL # 6
Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other
diseases
Have halted by 2015
and begun to
reverse the spread
of HIV/AIDS.
Globally, 4.3 million
people were newly
infected with HIV
in 2006.
Deadline 2015
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Did you know that?
Have halted by 2015
and begun to reverse
the incidence of
malaria and other
major diseases.
Malaria-control
efforts are paying
off, but additional
effort is needed.
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GOAL # 7
Ensure environmental
sustainability
Halve, by 2015, the
proportion of people
without sustainable
access to safe drinking
water and sanitation.
To improve the lives of
at least 100 million slum
dwellers by 2020.
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Did you know that?
In 1990, there were
nearly 715 million slum
dwellers in the world.
In 2000, the slum
population increased to
912 million.
Today, the slum
population is
approximately 998
million.
By 2020, it will reach
1.4 billion.
Are we keeping our promise?
Access to safe drinking water and
basic sanitation will not be met in
Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is estimated that
133 million people living in cities of
the developing world lack durable
housing.
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GOAL # 8
Develop a global
partnership for
development
Address the
special needs of
the least
developed
countries.
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Did you know that?
Aid is one way for rich
countries to transfer
resources to developing
countries which helps
reduce poverty by
increasing opportunity
for local development.
Donors pledge to double
their aid to Africa, but
there is little to show so
far.
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Nathan Scott
MDGs
Homework
Just imagine the Gates Foundation put up $100 million to
the person/group who could put the best case forward
for a project that would make the most difference to
the most people.
You are the secretary of such an organisation who works
in the field of improving the level of development in the
LICs. What would you spend the money on? Show how
this would improve the lives of the people. Set out to
prove your idea is the best one to be given the award.
You may like to do this in pairs – but no more than 2!
I will put all the proposals up on the wiki and there will
be a voting scheme (it downloads itself into a google
document, so that I can chart the results for you)
Closing day for your submissions will be Thursday next
at 4pm.
(in WORD only – no more than 2 pictures/graphs)
The poll will be opened on Friday morning. Voting will
close on Sunday at 5pm – I will email you the link when it
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is set up.