MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs)

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals
adopted by the United Nation in 2000. All 189 United Nations member states committed
themselves to made progress in eradicating the poverty and achieving other human development
goals by 2015.these goals are then assigned specific targets deemed achievable by 2015. These
goals are as follows.

GOALS

I. Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

II. Achieve universal primary education
III. Promote gender equality and empower women
IV. Reduce child mortality
V. Improve maternal HEALTH
VI. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
VII. Ensure environmental sustainability
VIII. Develop a global partnership for development

TARGETS

Some of the targets to achieve these goals are as follows,

Reduces half of the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day.
Reduces half of the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
Ensure all the boys and girls complete full course of primary schooling.
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and
at all level by 2015.
Reduce the two-third mortality rate among the children under 5.
Reduce by two quarters the maternal mortality ratio.
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
 Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs
and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
and basic sanitation.
Achieve significant improvement in lives of 100 million slum dwellers in 2020.
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial
system.
Address the special needs of the Least Developed Countries includes tariff- and quota-
free access, exports, enhanced program of debt relief ,cancellation of official bilateral
debt, and l development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island
developing states.
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national
and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent
and productive work for youth.
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential
drugs in developing countries.
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies,
especially information and communications technologies.

PAKISTAN PROGRESS ON MDGs 2015

Pakistan has adopted 16 targets and 41 indicators against which progress towards
achieving the Eight Goals of the MDGs is measured. Time series data available for 33 of
these indicators reveal that Pakistan is on track to achieve the targets on 9 indicators,
whereas its progress on 24 indicators is off track.
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN PAKISTAN

In 2002, the government of Pakistan became one of the first countries in the world to establish a
national public-private partnership devoted to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).UNDP partners with the Pakistan Human Development Fund and the National
Commission for Human Development (NCHD), the implementing agency working on the
ground in 53 districts across Pakistan, in the following areas such as Education, Health care and
Civil society.

PAKISTAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION FUND (PPAF)

One of the NGO of Pakistan Named (PPAF) focusing to alleviate poverty through empowering
poor people and increasing their access to income and opportunities, ensuring a focus on the
most vulnerable and marginalized groups.