UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all 191 UN member states have agreed to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women.
The Eight Millennium Development Goals are:
- to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
- to achieve universal primary education;
- to promote gender equality and empower women;
- to reduce child mortality;
- to improve maternal health;
- to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases;
- to ensure environmental sustainability; and
- to develop a global partnership for development.
The MDGs are inter-dependent; all the MDG influence health, and health influences all the MDGs. For example, better health enables children to learn and adults to earn. Gender equality is essential to the achievement of better health. Reducing poverty, hunger and environmental degradation positively influences, but also depends on, better health.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. The objective was to produce a set of universal goals that meet the urgent environmental, political and economic challenges facing our world.
The SDGs replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which started a global effort in 2000 to tackle the indignity of poverty. The MDGs established measurable, universally-agreed objectives for tackling extreme poverty and hunger, preventing deadly diseases, and expanding primary education to all children, among other development priorities.
The SDGs came into effect in January 2016, and they will continue to guide UNDP policy and funding until 2030.
The Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are:
- No poverty
- Zero Hunger
- Good health and well being
- Quality education
- Gender Equality
- Clean water and sanitation
- Affordable and clean energy
- Decent work and economic growth
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- Reduced inequalities
- Sustainable cities and communities
- Responsible consumption and production
- Climate action
- Life Below Water
- Life on land
- Peace, justice and strong institutions
- Partnerships for the goals
- includes sustainable agriculture.
- is inclusive development
- means sustainable mobility solutions.
- means sustainable urbanization.
- means energy security and clean energy.
- means sustainable waste management.
- means determined efforts at wildlife conservation.
- means green innovations.
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