MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs)

CONTENT

1. The Meaning of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
2. Aims and Objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

The Meaning of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

In September 2000, leaders from 189 nations of the World agreed on a vision for the future: a world with less poverty, hunger and disease, greater survival prospects for mothers and their infants, better educated children, equal opportunity for women and a healthier environment, a world in which developed and developing countries of the world worked in partnership for the betterment of all.

The aim of the MDGs is to encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the World’s poorest countries. They derived this initiative from earlier development targets and were officially established following the millennium summit in 2000, where all World leaders present adopted United Notions Millennium Declaration.

Aims and Objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

GOAL 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

Recent economic growth, particularly in agriculture, has markedly reduced the proportion of underweight children, from 35.7 per cent in 1990 to 23.1 per cent in 2008.