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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight global goals aimed at addressing major development challenges by 2015, established during the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. Following the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced in 2015, comprising 17 goals with 169 targets to be achieved by 2030, emphasizing universality, integration, and transformation across all nations and sectors. Both sets of goals focus on critical issues such as poverty, education, health, and environmental sustainability.
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight global goals aimed at addressing major development challenges by 2015, established during the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. Following the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced in 2015, comprising 17 goals with 169 targets to be achieved by 2030, emphasizing universality, integration, and transformation across all nations and sectors. Both sets of goals focus on critical issues such as poverty, education, health, and environmental sustainability.
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Millennium Development

Goals

United Nations Development Programme


8
Goals
What are the Millennium Development Goals?

• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be


achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development
challenges.
• The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the
Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and
signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the
UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.
Indicators
1. Reduce by half the
proportion of people
living on less than a
dollar a day.
2. Achieve full and
productive
employment and
decent work for all,
including women and
young people.
3. Reduce by half the
proportion of people
who suffer from
hunger
Indicators
1. Ensure that all boys
and girls complete a
full course of primary
schooling.
Indicators
1. Eliminate gender
disparity in primary
and secondary
education preferably
by 2005, and at all
levels by 2015.
Indicators
2. Reduce by two thirds
the mortality rate
among children under
five
Indicators
1. Reduce by three
quarters the maternal
mortality ratio.
2. Achieve, by 2015,
universal access to
reproductive health.
Indicators
1. Halt and begin to
reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
2. Achieve, by 2010,
universal access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS
for all those who need
it.
3. Halt and begin to
reverse the incidence
of malaria and other
major diseases
Indicators
1. Integrate the principles of
sustainable development
into country policies and
programmes; reverse loss
of environmental resources.
2. Reduce by half the
proportion of people
without sustainable
access to safe drinking
water and basic
sanitation.
3. Achieve significant
improvement in lives of at
least 100 million slum
dwellers, by 2020
Indicators
1. Develop further an open, rule-
based, predictable, non-
discriminatory trading and
financial system.
2. Address the special needs of
the least developed countries.
3. Address the special needs of
landlocked developing
countries and small island
developing States (through
the Programme of Action for
the Sustainable Development
of Small Island Developing
States and the outcome of the
twenty- second special session
of the General Assembly).
Indicators
1. Deal comprehensively with the
debt problems of developing
countries through national and
international measures in order
to make debt sustainable in the
long term.
2. In cooperation with
pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable
essential drugs in developing
countries.
3. In cooperation with the private
sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies,
especially information and
communications
Introducing the SDGs
The Sustainable Development
Goals
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The SDGs are …

➤ A set of 17 goals for the world’s future, through 2030


➤ Backed up by a set of 169 detailed Targets
➤ Negotiated over a two-year period at the United Nations
➤ Agreed to by nearly all the world’s nations, on 25 Sept
2015
What is new and different
about the 17 SDGs?
First, and most important, these Goals apply to every
nation … and every sector. Cities, businesses, schools,
organizations, all are challenged to act. This is called

Universality
Second, it is recognized that the Goals are all inter-
connected, in a system. We cannot aim to achieve just
one Goal. We must achieve them all. This is called

Integration
And finally, it is widely recognized that achieving these
Goals involves making very big, fundamental changes in
how we live on Earth. This is called

Transformation
Let’s take a tour …
#1: End
poverty in
all its
forms
everywher
e
#2: End hunger, achieve food security and
improved nutrition
#2: End hunger, achieve food security and
improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture

#3: Ensure
healthy lives
and promote
well-being
for all at all
#4: Ensure
inclusive and
quality
education for
all and
promote
lifelong
learning
#5: Achieve
gender
equality and
empower
women and
girls
#6: Ensure access
to water and
sanitation for all
#7: Ensure
access to
affordable,
reliable,
sustainable and
modern energy
for all
#8: Promote
inclusive and
sustainable
economic growth,
employment and
decent work for
all
#9: Build
resilient
infrastructure,
promote
sustainable
industrializatio
#10: Reduce
inequality within
and among
countries
#11: Make cities
inclusive, safe,
resilient and
#12: Ensure
sustainable
consumption
#13: Take urgent
action to combat
climate change
and its impacts*
#14:
Conserve and
sustainably
use the
oceans, seas
and marine
#15: Sustainably manage
forests, combat
desertification, halt and
reverse land degradation,
halt biodiversity loss
#16: Promote just,
peaceful
and inclusive
#17:
Revitalize the
global
partnership
for
sustainable
development
Each
goal is
importa
nt
in itself

Each And
goal is they
importa are all
nt connect
in itself ed

To find out more, go to

17Goals.org

And read the real documents for


yourself, at
https://
sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
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