The Milliennium Development goals Flashcards
(38 cards)
Name the 8 Millennium Development Goals.
- Eradicate Extreme Poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve mental health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
Purpose of “ Goal 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger” ?
- To reduce the proportion of people living on less than US$1 (currently $1.25) Per day
- To achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
- To reduce the proportion of people suffering from hunger
Purpose of “ Goal 2 - Achieve universal primary education” ?
- To ensure that all children, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
Purpose of “ Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women” ?
- To eliminate gender differences at all levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary)
Purpose of “ Goal 4 - Reduce Child Mortality” ?
- To reduce the under 5 mortality rate
Purpose of “ Goal 5 - Improve Maternal Health ?
- To Reduce the maternal mortality ratio
- To achieve universal access to reproduction services
Purpose of “ Goal 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases” ?
- To halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
- Achieve universal treatment for HIV/AIDS for those who need it
- To halt and begin to reverse the spread of malaria and other major diseases
Purpose “ Goal 7 - Ensure environmental sustainability” ?
- To incorporate principles of sustainable development into country policies and reverse the loss of environmental resources
- Reduce biodiversity loss
- Increase access to sage water and sanitation
- Improve the lives of slum dwellers
Purpose of “ Goal 8 - Develop a global partnership for development” ?
- To Address the special needs of the least developed countries
- Tp address the special needs of land locked countries and small island developing states
- To create fair trading policies for developing countries
- To deal with the debt problems of developing countries
- To provide affordable medication through partnerships with pharmaceutical companies
- Enhance the availability to ICT and other technologies by working with the private sector
Reasons why “ Goal 1 - Eradicate Extreme poverty and hunger” is Important ?
- Lack of income leads to a lack of resources and infrastructure
- Poverty and hunger reduce immune function and increase mortality rates from preventable diseases particularly infectious diseases
- Lack of income reduces the capacity for a country to develop its economy which reduces levels of human development experienced.
Reasons why “ Goal 2 - Achieve universal primary education” is Important ?
- Education promotes greater employment prospects, which in turn decreases levels of poverty experienced and allows children to be educated which helps to break the cycle
- Health promoting behaviours are also enhanced with literacy
Reasons why “ Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women” is Important ?
- To eliminate gender differences at all levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary)
Reasons why “ Goal 4 - Reduce child mortality” is Important ?
- Children often die from easily preventable diseases
Children are the future of the country’s society and economy
Reasons why “ Goal 5 - Improve maternal Health” is Important ?
- Maternal morality rates are high in developing countries
- If mothers are in good health, they can take better care of their families
- Providing access to reproductive health services means that women are better able take care of themselves and their children through seeking advice and treatment
Reasons why “ Goal 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases” is Important ?
- Simple cost effective methods can reduce the risk of contracting Malaria and HIV
- HIV reduces the impact of individuals to work to provide for their family
- Thousands of children are orphaned which reduces their chance of education and a productive life
Reasons why “ Goal 7 - Ensure Environmental Sustainability” is important ?
- Future generations can then provide for themselves and their children
- Biodiversity is essential for future food supplies and income generation
- Lack of water is responsible for many deaths each year
- Hundreds of millions of people live in urban slums where the physical environment results in many deaths
Reasons why “ Goal 8 - Develop a global partnership for development” is important ?
- There is a lot of potential for developing countries to improve their economies. This can improve health and human development outcomes
- Developed countries have a large part to play in enhancing health and human development in developing countries by increasing aid, and wiping debt
What are the three targets for “ Goal 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger” ?
Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than US$1 a day
Target 2: Achieve full and production employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
Target 3: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
What is the target for “ Goal 2 - Achieve universal primary education” ?
Target 1: Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
What is the target for “ Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women” ?
Target 1: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education by no later than 2015 ,
What is the target for “ Goal 4 - reduce child mortality” ?
Target 1: reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
What are the two targets for “ Goal 5 - Improve maternel health” ?
Target 1: Reduce by three - quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
Target 2: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
What are the three targets for “ Goal 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases “?
Target 1: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Target 2: Achieve by 2010 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for those who need it
Target 3: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
What are the four targets for “ Goal 7 - Ensure environmental sustainability”?
Target 1: Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Target 2: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
Target 3: Halve by 2015 the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Target 4: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of a least 100 million slum dwellers
