Millennium Development Goals

In 2000, all United Nations member states (including PNG) adopted the Millennium Declaration. Since then, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have become a universal framework for development and a means for developing countries and their development partners to work together to pursuit of shared future for all.

 

By 2015, all 189 United Nations Member States have pledge to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

1.       Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger*

2.       Achieve Universal Primary Education*

3.       Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women*

4.       Reduce Child Mortality*

5.       Improve Maternal Health*

6.       Combart HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other Disease*

7.       Ensure Environmental Sustainability*, and

8.       Global Partnership for Development.   

 

*Seven (7) PNG Localized MDGs – PNG’s National Millennium Development Goals. :

 

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

·         Decrease the proportion of people below the poverty line by 10 per cent by 2015, using the 1996 national average figure of 30 per cent.

·         By 2015, increase by 10 per cent the total amount of agriculture commercially produced and by 34 per cent of subsistence agriculture production.

 

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education

·         Achieve a gross enrollment rate of 85 per cent at the primary level by 2015.

·         Achieve a Cohort Retention Rate of 70 per cent at the primary level by 2015.

·         Achieve an (indirectly measured) Youth Literacy Rate of 70 per cent by 2015.

 Goal 3: Promote Gender Equity and Empower Women

·         Eliminate Gender disparity at the Primary and Lower Secondary Level by 2015 and at Upper Secondary Level and above by 2030.

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality

·         Reduce the Infant Mortality Rate to 44 per thousand by 2015.

·         Reduce the Under Five Mortality Rate 77 per thousand by 2015.

 Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

·         Decrease the Maternal Mortality Rate to 274 per 100,000 live births by 2015.

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases

·         Have controlled by 2015 and stabilized by 2020, the spread of HIV/AIDS.

·         Have controlled by 2015 and either stabilized of reversed the incidence of pneumonia, malaria and other major diseases by 2020.

Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

·         Implement the principle of sustainable development trough sector specific programs by 2010 and no later by 2015.

·         By 2010, increase use of commercial use of land and natural resource through improvements in environmental friendly technologies and methods of production.

·         Increase to 60 per cent the number of households with access to safe water by 2010 and to at least 85 per cent by 2020 (as definition from DOH). 

·         By 2020, to have achieve a significant improvement in the lives of disadvantage and vulnerable groups in urban areas.



This Elementary School age kids in the Middle Watut in Bulolo District of Morobe Province still dont have access to Education, Health and other basic Government Services.