Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most broadly supported, comprehensive and specific development goals the world has ever agreed upon. These eight time-bound goals provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions. They include goals and targets on poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality, environmental degradation and the growth map for the Global Partnership for Development.
Adopted by world leaders in the year 2001 and set to be achieved by 2015, the MDG's provide a framework for the entire international community to work together towards a common end, making sure that human development reaches everyone, everywhere. If these goals are achieved, world poverty will be cut by half, tens of millions of lives will be saved, and billions more people will have the opportunity to benefit in the global economy.
Adopted by world leaders in the year 2001 and set to be achieved by 2015, the MDG's provide a framework for the entire international community to work together towards a common end, making sure that human development reaches everyone, everywhere. If these goals are achieved, world poverty will be cut by half, tens of millions of lives will be saved, and billions more people will have the opportunity to benefit in the global economy.
