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“Your Future is in Your Hands”, photo by Taras Kovalchuk, winner of Contest: “MDGs: Our Challenges. Our Commitment!”
“Achieving the MDGs by 2015 is challenging but possible. Much depends on the fulfillment of MDG-8—the global partnership for development. Let us build on the successes we have achieved so far, and let us not relent until all the MDGs have been attained.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
2012 Report on the Millennium Development Goals
What are the Millennium Development Goals? Read more…
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight measurable goals to be achieved by the year 2015. The MDGs respond to the world's main development challenges (poverty and hunger, access to education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV/AIDS and other diseases, environmental sustainability). The MDGs were agreed by 189 leaders of UN Member States at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 and can be achieved by the target date only through a global partnership for development. Global MDGs include 8 goals, 21 targets and 60 indicators for measuring progress.
What are the Millennium Development Goals in Ukraine? Read more…
National MDGs are 7 guidelines adapted to the Ukrainian context taking into consideration the particularities of the country`s development. The deadline for achieving MDGs for Ukraine is 2015. The MDGs for Ukraine translated into seven priority areas: poverty reduction, providing access to quality lifelong education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, ensuring environmental sustainability. The MDGs defined for Ukraine consist of 7 goals, 15 targets and 33 indicators.
What has been currently achieved? Read more…
Ukraine has managed to achieve certain progress in reducing absolute poverty, ensuring access to primary and secondary education, improving maternal health and reducing child mortality.
What should be done? Read more…
Despite the progress achieved so far, poverty remains an acute problem troubling society; education quality causes discontent in society; no progress in gender disparity reduction has been achieved, an income gender gap remains large; the scale of HIV/AIDS and TB spread has grown substantially; environmental problems have become acute.
At the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders from 189 States, including Ukraine, adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, initiating the progress towards achieving by 2015 positive results in those areas where the inequality of global human development appeared to be most acute. UN Millennium Declaration is a commitment to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
The internationally agreed framework of the MDGs contains 8 goals, 21 targets and 60 indicators to measure progress. The MDGs is a set of time-bound, quantitative targets representing a common vision for development. Read more…
To help track progress on the commitments made in the Millennium Declaration, international and national statistical experts selected relevant indicators to be used to assess progress over the period from 1990–2015. In 2007 (2008), the MDG monitoring framework was revised to include new targets agreed by member states at the 2005 World Summit and recommended, in 2006, by the United Nations Secretary-General. In close collaboration with agencies and organizations within and outside the United Nations system, the United Nations Statistics Division coordinates data analysis to assess progress made towards the MDGs and maintains the database containing data related to the selected indicators, as well as other background data intended to supplement these. National statistics services provide information to the international statistics system after checking its accuracy to ensure comparability. When national statistics services do not provide updated data on time, or do not produce the data required for an assessment of progress on the indicators, authorized agencies make estimates based on the data available on related variables or by using other methodologies. Since periodic assessment of progress towards the MDGs began, the international statistical community has been concerned about the lack of adequate data in many parts of the developing world to assess progress on the MDG indicators. At the same time, the monitoring requirements themselves have helped focus attention on this shortcoming and have raised awareness on the urgency of launching initiatives for statistical capacity building.
The official list of MDG indicators, effective as of 15 January 2008, is provided here.
Eight MDGs to be achieved by 2015:
Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
The 2010 Summit on progress in achieving the MDGs (UN General Assembly high-level Plenary Session) brought together world leaders to assess progress, identify problems and obstacles to development and confirm readiness to implement specific measures to achieve the MDGs. The UN Summit concluded with the adoption of a global action Plan “Keeping the Promise: United to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals” and the announcement of a number of initiatives against poverty, hunger and disease. During the 2010 Summit, UNDP launched the MDG Acceleration Framework.
Each year the UN produces assessment of global progress towards the MDGs. The new 2012 MDG Report presented by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 2 July 2012 highlights several milestones – three important targets on poverty, slums and water have been met three years ahead of 2015. Read more…
Preliminary estimates indicate that in 2010, the share of people living on less than a $1.25 a day dropped to less than half of its 1990 value. The proportion of people using improved water sources raised from 76 per cent in 1990 to 89 per cent in 201. This means that more than two billion people improved living conditions. The share of urban residents in the developing world living in slums has declined from 39 per cent in 2000 to 33 per cent in 2012. At the end of 2010, 6.5 million people in developing regions were receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV or AIDS.
The progress in achieving the MDGs in Europe and CIS is outlined in the Report on Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Europe and Central Asia According to the report, the progress in the region was made in areas such as food security, women’s employment, child and maternal mortality, and in the field of environmental sustainability. Read more…
The global economic crisis caused some reversals in hard won progress, and requires increased social protection for the poor and vulnerable, especially migrants, minorities, women, the elderly and people with disabilities. Among other major challenges related to MDGs in Europe and CIS region are: quality of primary education; under-representation of women in decision-making positions; unequal access to primary health care and reproductive health; lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation in rural areas; growing informal settlements; and rising HIV and tuberculosis prevalence in parts of the region.
The MDGs must be achieved by 2015. What’s next? What will unite people to improve the world in which we live? What is the future we want? Answers to these questions are provided in the Initiative for discussion of the Post-2015 Agenda Read more…
It is clear that by 2015 the international community should provide the maximum possible progress towards achieving the MDGs. A series of discussions on new goals and objectives of development after 2015 has already begun at global level. National consultations on the Post-2015 Agenda are based on the analysis of the current state of progress on the MDGs and evaluation of achievements and shortcomings. The agenda should be based on the new challenges that emerged in the last decade. It is important to consider the climate change and environmental vulnerability, the consequences of crisis and instability associated with economic globalization, change of patterns of global governance, forms of inequality between and within countries and trends related to technology, demographics, urbanization and migration. The most important is that the vision of the world in which we seek to live (correspondingly goals and targets of development) should take into account the point of all society members, including vulnerable groups.
With the 2015 target date fast approaching, it is more important than ever to understand which goals are on track, and where additional efforts and support are needed, both at global country levels. The MDG Monitor enables to track progress through interactive maps and country-specific profiles, learn about countries' challenges and achievements and get the latest news, and support organizations working on the MDGs around the world.
Achieving the MDGs is a global mission, contribute to which can everybody by joining the team of fighters against poverty today. Football stars and UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors Didier Drogba and Zinedine Zidane call on world leaders and citizens to join their efforts in a fight against poverty to achieve the MDGs by 2015 deadline.
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