Millenium Developement Goals

Millennium Development Goals

This term refers to the effort being done by the world's leaders in making a better world: United Nations Development Program. These are a series of goals or objectives to be accomplished by the year 2015. This program is formed by eight mayor sectors regarding global issues such as poverty, health, and education. Development is in freedom from misery and suffering, from poverty, hunger, illiteracy, aids and diseases, and poor houses, as well as security.

They were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in the year 2000 and, by signing up to these goals, a whole bunch of countries have committed to work collaboratively towards a better future, and world for all of us.

The progress achieved is recorded each year. The eighth goal is where all the other seven goals rely on. The "Build a global partnership for development" is what will create the necessary conditions to achieve the others. The seven other goals' record is kept individually for every country. Obviously, the richest countries are the ones who give the most to reduce debt, to give more and better aid and to make trade fairer, among other measures; while the poorest countries have to be in charge of the first seven goals. They have to integrate the plans into their laws and policies. We need transparency so that people trust this project and motivate them to work on it.

These goals are designed to have an inter-connection between them. This can be very beneficial if all the projects are done the way they should be and follow an order in which achieving, or reaching one goal, will make the next project easier. But we have to be careful because it is not that easy; it requires time and effort to do everything before 2015, otherwise not completing one of the goals or tasks will end ruining the whole project and maybe make the problems bigger and worse.

Target: Have the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger

It is concerned on getting people out of poverty providing them what they need to have a decent life: food, clothes, clean water and homes, health care, and schooling.

Even though the world has made really big efforts to eradicate this big issue, the problem remains huge and some countries are even getting worse.

Most poor countries are stuck on the "poverty trap", in which they have no hope on finishing their poverty problem. To get these countries out of the trap, we would have to: Increase health and education, increase farmers agricultural productivity by teaching them new cropping techniques, diversify the economy to make it less dependent on crops, increase construction of roads, ports, and communications, and promote human rights.

There is one billion people living on less than one dollar a day, but the figure potentiates when we look at how many people live on less than two dollars a day: 2.8 billion people (more realistic and shocking indicator).

The global proportion of people living in less than a dollar a day decreased from 1990 to 2000 by 7%, having a biggest impact on Asia and Northern Africa, while in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean has increased. Almost half of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa lives on less than a dollar a day.

I think it is one of the most difficult goals to achieve. The numbers in this goal talk themselves. These are higher and most impressive statics because even though (my personal opinion) all problems and global issues come from lack of education, malnutrition and poverty is where education is reflected the most. They have no access to food or money. But at the same time, this is where people pay more attention to and that makes everything "easier" or simpler, without taking the big efforts it will take to achieve away.

Target: Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school.

It focuses on making sure children anywhere, boys and girls, finish a full course of primary education by 2015.

Providing children a good education is the best investment any country can do on its future. It gives children opportunities and when they grow they can have a decent job and therefore a higher income. No progress can be made in any other goal without education.

It helps in family planning also, and therefore we have less population to worry about their wellbeing. It reduces hunger, infant and maternal mortality, HIV spread, and environmental damage.

Some children work instead of attending to school to get just a little money and eat. And some others don't attend to school because