In september 2000, building upon a decade of major united nations conferences and summits, world leaders came together at the united nations headquarters in new york to adopt the united nations millennium declaration the declaration committed nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty, and set out a series of eight timebound targets with a. Significant and substantial progress has been made. Thus they committed their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and set out a series of timebound targets with a deadline of 2015 that have become known as the millennium development goals mdgs. At the september 2010 mdg summit, world leaders put forward an ambitious action plan a.
The adoption of the millennium development goals, drawn from the united nations millennium declaration, was a seminal event in the history of the united nations. Improve maternal health global maternal mortality ratio deaths per 100,000 live births 50% 60% 70% 80% 1990 2015 59% 71% 1990 380 2000. The primary mediumterm strategy and implementation plan for reaching its mdgs, the tenth plan poverty reduction strategy pa. Hooson design, prepress and printing by llc designproject samolet. This edition of the state of the worlds cities report provides an overview of a range of issues that link cities, slums and the millennium development goals. Department of economic and social affairs report on progress towards the 8 millennium development goals which arose from the millennium declaration in 2000. Furthermore while the challenges of data remain supreme, african countries have mobilised under the banner of the african symposia for statistical development assd to conduct a census in the 2010 round of population and housing censuses. The mdgs are universal, but their impact will be greatest in the worlds poorest nations, mainly those in subsaharan africa, like my own country, liberia. A special report on a new study by unicef shows that an equityfocused approach to child survival and development is the most practical and costeffective way of meeting the health millennium development goals for children. The report addresses the issue of human development and presents, aided by the various indices hdi, hpi, gdi, and gem, the status of progress. Assessing progress in africa toward the millennium development goals, please contact. This inaugural report on the global sustainable development goals sdgs is a first accounting of where the world stands at the start of our collective journey to 2030. The eight millennium development goals mdgs are aimed at improving the lives of millions worldwide by 2015 and form a blueprint for action, agreed upon by all of the worlds countries and leading development institutions. Nine years ago, world leaders set farsighted goals to free a major portion of humanity from the shackles of extreme poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease.
Millennium development goals report 2010 by united nations. They provide estimates, take the responsibility for filling data gaps by estimating missing values, and make adjustments if need be, to ensure global compara. Even though south africas own development plan precedes the sdgs, the aspirations articulated in the sdgs resonate with those found in our national development plan ndp. The millennium development goals mdgs are the most widely supported and comprehensive development goals the world has ever established. Millennium development goals united nations in montenegro. The united nations millennium declaration, signed in september 2000, committed world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. Assessing progress in africa toward the millennium. Jordans second millennium development goals report 2010 shows the extent to which progress has been made towards achieving those targets and highlights the challenges that still confront the country to achieve these goals.
Take a photograph and show in a positive way what people around the world are doing to achieve the millennium development goals mdgs. Subsaharan africa and southern asia are home to the vast majority of children out of school. The millennium development goals report 2010 was launched in new york by the secretarygeneral on 23 june 2010. The millennium development goals report 2011 asdf united nations new york, 2011. But it is also in africa that we have seen the difference the mdgs have been making. The millennium development goals mdgs have been the most successful global antipoverty push in history. The country has just launched its first national development plan ndp and the whole world is assessing progress towards the millennium declaration in the last five years before the 2015 deadline. Pdf pakistan millennium development goals report 2010. The purpose of this paper was to highlight the role of libraries in the provision of information towards the attainment of the united nation millennium development goals mdgs in nigeria. The eight millennium development goals which range from halving extreme poverty to halting.
The millennium development goals report 2010 3 foreword the millennium declaration in 2000 was a milestone in international cooperation, inspiring development. Millenium development goals human development reports. This ultimate millennium development goals mdg report is an incomparable source narrating the story of how south africa joined the rest of the world in the year 2000 on this critical journey to restore and advance the dignity of humankind and the environment. The national project education and the achievement of the millennium development goals in its framework in the special report the mdgs and russias national projects. Millennium development goals report for uganda 2010. Mixed 2010 report card on antipoverty goals highlights. The millennium development goals report 2011 addendum the latest estimates of child mortality1 show that steady progress is being made in reducing child deaths. The report on the achievement the millennium development. Millennium development goals introduction to the millennium development goals to assess progress, all indicators should be disaggregated by sex and urban andor rural areas as far as possible. The millennium development goals report 2010 3 the millennium development goals report 2010 united nations new york, 2010 mdg report 2010 en 20100604 r14 dd sec1. The millennium development goals report the united nations.
Millennium development goals report for uganda 2015. Millennium development goals progress report 20 1 introduction background nepal is one of 189 countries committed to the millennium development goals mdgs, a pledge it has renewed in its national development plans. The report focuses on seven out of the eight goals and about 18 indicators. Not all indicators listed in box 1 are available for all countries. Significant and substantial progress has been made in meeting many of the targetsincluding halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and the proportion of people without sustainable access to improved sources of drinking water. Globally, the mortality rate for children under five has declined by 35 per cent, from 88 deaths per 1,000 live births in. The report, taking into account new development paradigms on aid effectiveness and upscaling necessary to meet the mdgs, suggests policy options, capacities and the resources needed to meet the mdgs. The report on the achievement the millennium development goals in indonesia 2010 laporan perkembangan pencapaian millennium development goals mdgs indonesia 2010 ministry of national development planning national development planning agency. Many countdown countries are still off track for achieving millennium development goals 4.
The report analyses selected indicators from the global indicator framework for which data are available as examples to highlight some critical gaps and challenges. Narrowing the gaps to meet the goals 7 september 2010. Since then, romania has reported on its mdg progress in 2003 and 2007. It constituted an unprecedented promise by world leaders to address, as a single package, peace, security, development, human rights and fundamental freedoms. State of the worlds cities sustainable development. Several new indicators were introduced in the revised monitoring framework. Strategic choices, published in 2006, the main attention is paid to the national projects that were launched by the government of the russian federation in order to. This means that the world reached the mdg targetof halving the proportion of people living in extreme povertyfive. The mdg target of universal access to antiretroviral therapy for all who need it by 2010 was missed, but is reachable by 2015 if current trends continue. The report seeks to identify the policies required for meeting the mdg targets by the year 2015, at a time. It resulted in the national report, millennium development goals. Updated statistical data will be presented in the millennium development goals report 2010 in late june. The competition is open to professional and amateur photographers and is organized by the united nations development programme.
A halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day indicator 1. At the 2010 highlevel plenary meeting of the general assembly on the millennium development goals, world. It makes clear that the global fight against poverty encapsulated in the millennium development goals is heavily dependent on how well cities perform. These eight goals and 18 targets provide a concrete framework for tackling poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, communicable disease, education, gender inequality, environmental damage and the global partnership for. In this process, efforts were made to analyse policy implications in various domains and to generate the updated targets for the government until 2015. Mdg report 2010 en 20100604 r14 dd the united nations. They should have the courage to admit to each other and to their constituents that although some progress has been. Millenium development goals ii report for uganda 2015 since the adoption of the millennium development goals mdgs in september 2001, and the subsequent internalisation of the mdg framework in our national development agenda, the character of our country and the quality of life of our citizens have changed for the better.
Caribbean millennium development goals report 2010. Millennium development goals and russian regions national human development report 2010 for the russian federation edited by prof. What will it take to achieve the millennium development goals an international assessment pdf. It captures mdg interventions, challenges and successes, as well as misses since the mid. Ordering information to order copies of mdg report 2015. Report version page africa statistics south africa. This 2010 millennium development goals mdgs progress report for uganda comes at a critical time. This report provides new information and analysis on how far the world has come in reducing child and maternal mortality and malnutrition, ensuring universal primary education. Even as the number of schoolage children continues to rise, the total number of children out of school is decreasingfrom 106 million in 1999 to 69 million in 2008.