By Bhumi PatelBIOL 402

Spring 2012

Millennium Declaration

• 189 countries • Mapped out eight key objectives

Millennium Campaign

A UN campaign set up to increase support in hopes of achieving eight Millennium

Developmental Goals

Poorer countries vs.

Wealthy countries

Roles

The United Nations has many different organizations that help achieve these MDGs.

Millennium Developmental Goals

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

• Income• Employment • Hunger

Mission: To provide food in emergencies and use food to help rebuild communities. • Save and protect • Prevent and invest • Restore and rebuild • Strengthen

Goal 2: Universal Education

• Full course of primary school

Goal 3: Gender Equity

• Gender disparity in education

Mission: To accelerate gender equality and the empowerment of women.• Violence against women • Peace and security • Leadership and participation • Economic empowerment

Goal 4: Child Health

• Reduce mortality rate

Mission: To provide long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children in developing countries • Survival and development • Education and gender equality • HIV/AIDS • Child protection

Goal 5: Maternal Health

• Reduce maternal mortality ratio • Universal access to reproductive health

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS and other disease

• Decrease the spread of HIV/AIDS• Universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment• Reduce the incidence of Malaria and other major

diseases

Mission: To achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care and support. • Uniting • Speaking out • Mobilizing • Empowering • Supporting

Goal 7: Environmental Sustainability

• Sustainable development in country policies and programs

• Reduce biodiversity loss• Reduce number of people without safe access to

drinking water • Improve lives of slum dwellers

Goal 8: Global Partnership

1. Develop open, rule-based, predictable, non discriminatory trading and financial system

2. Needs of least developed countries 3. Access to affordable essential drugs

Millennium Developmental Goals

Goal 4: Child Health 2008

65 per 1000 live births

1990 90 per 1000 live

births

27%

Target 67% by 2015

Goal 4: Child Health

Goal 7: Environmental Sustainability

Goal 7: Environmental Sustainability

Halving the proportion of people without

sustainable access to safe drinking water

Progam Expenses90%

Administrative Expenses

3%Fundraising Expenses

7%

Total Revenues $434,725,922

Total Expenses $433,755,220

United States Fund for UNICEF 2010 99.8%

Project Hope 2012 Total Revenues

$194,803Total Expenses

$184,004

Fundraising Expenses 4%

Administrative2%

Programmes94%

94%

References • http://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/MDG-NHPS_brochure_2010.pdf• http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat/EN_WHS10_Part1.pdf• http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/• http://www.endpoverty2015.org/• http://www.unwomen.org/focus-areas/• http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/africa-and-the-millennium-development-goals• http://www.wfp.org/about• http://www.unicef.org/• http://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/• http://www.un.org/works/sub3.asp?lang=en&id=12• http://www.discerningtoday.org/un_millennium_declaration.htm• http://www.topnews.in/un-starts-campaign-eradicate-poverty-india-2219359• http://www.worldhealthimaging.org/global.html• http://truthalliance.net/Archive/News/tabid/67/ID/2967/Resist-WHO-Fraud-Conspiracy-

Mandatory-Vaccination.aspx• http://topnews.net.nz/content/215379-unicef-unwraps-vaccine-pricing-policy-drug-makers• http://www.unlao.org/Blog/?tag=/wfp• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO• http://www.jolkona.org/blog/mdgs-and-jolkona/• http://twitchange.com/world-water-day-2012-solving-the-worlds-water-crisis-in-this-generation/• http://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/MDG-NHPS_brochure_2010.pdf• http://www.projecthope.org/assets/documents/PH_Annual-Web.pdf

• http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4617