The Millennium Development Goals

1.Eradicate Poverty

Targets & Indicators

Target: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

Indicators:

  • Proportion of population below $1 per day (PPP-values)

  • Poverty gap ratio (incidence x depth of poverty)

  • Share of poorest quintile in national consumption

Target: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

Indicators:

  • Prevalence of underweight children (under-five years of age)

  • Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

2.Universal Primary Education

The second goal is to Achieve Universal Primary Education.

Targets & Indicators

Target: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Indicators:

  • Net enrolment ratio in primary education

  • Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5

  • Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds

3.Gender Equality

The third goal is to Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women.

Target & Indicators

Target: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015.

Indicators:

  • Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

  • Ratio of literate females to males of 15-24 year olds

  • Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

  • Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

4.Reduce Child Mortality

The fourth goal is to Reduce Child Mortality.

Targets & Indicators

Target: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.

Indicators:

  • Under-five mortality rate

  • Infant mortality rate

  • Proportion of 1 year old children immunised against measles

5.Improve Maternal Health

The fifth goal is to Improve Maternal Health.

Targets & Indicators

Target: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.

Indicators:

  • Maternal mortality ratio

  • Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

6.HIV/AIDS, Malaria & Other Diseases

The sixth goal is to Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases.

Targets & Indicators

Target: Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Indicators:

  • HIV prevalence among 15-24 year old pregnant women

  • Contraceptive prevalence rate

  • Number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS

Target: Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

Indicators:

  • Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria

  • Proportion of population in malaria risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures

  • Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis

  • Proportion of TB cases detected and cured under DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course)

7.Environmental Sustainability

The seventh goal is to Ensure Environmental Sustainability.

Targets & Indicators

Target: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and
programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources.

Indicators:

  • Proportion of land area covered by forest

  • Land area protected to maintain biological diversity

  • GDP per unit of energy use (as proxy for energy efficiency)

  • Carbon dioxide emissions (per capita)

  • [Plus two figures of global atmospheric pollution: ozone depletion and the accumulation of global warming gases]

Target: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe
drinking water.

Indicator:

  • Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source

Target: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at
least 100 million slum dwellers.

Indicators:

  • Proportion of people with access to improved sanitation

  • Proportion of people with access to secure tenure

  • [Urban/rural disaggregation of several of the above indicators may be relevant for monitoring improvement in the lives of slum dwellers]

8.Global Partnership

The eighth goal is to Develop a Global Partnership for Development.

Targets

  • Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system (includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction - both nationally and internationally).

  • Address the special needs of the Least Developed Countries (Includes: tariff and quota free access for LDC exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction).

  • Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing
    States (through Barbados Programme and 22nd General Assembly provisions).

  • Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through
    national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.

Indicators

Official Development Assistance

  • Net ODA as percentage of DAC donors' GNI [targets of 0.7% in total and 0.15% for LDCs]

  • Proportion of ODA to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation)

  • Proportion of ODA that is untied

  • Proportion of ODA for environment in small island developing states

  • Proportion of ODA for transport sector in land-locked countries

 

Market Access

  • Proportion of exports (by value and excluding arms) admitted free of duties and quotas

  • Average tariffs and quotas on agricultural products and textiles and clothing

  • Domestic and export agricultural subsidies in OECD countries

  • Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity

 

Debt Sustainability

  • Proportion of official bilateral HIPC debt cancelled

  • Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services

  • Proportion of ODA provided as debt relief

  • Number of countries reaching HIPC decision and completion points

Some of the indicators listed above will be monitored separately for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Africa, landlocked countries and small island developing states.

Source: http://www.mdgender.net/goals/