Eight developmental goals set by the United Nations to be achieved by 2015. Among them, halve extreme poverty, provide universal primary education, reverse incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, etc.
In September 2000, world leaders at the Millennium Summit agreed on an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives. This ambition was formulated in eight Millennium Development Goals. For each goal one or more targets were set, most to be achieved by 2015, using 1990 as a benchmark. Three goals are relevant for hygiene, sanitation, and water in schools: achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, and ensure environmental sustainability.
A list of 10 goals (including eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, improving maternal health and ensure environmental sustainability) adopted by the UN General Assembly. The MDGs commit the international community to an expanded vision of development, and have been commonly accepted as a framework for measuring development progress.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of the environment. They build on the commitments agreed at United Nations conferences throughout the 1990s. The goals have been adopted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, and many other agencies. They were formally approved by the General Assembly in September 2000.
MDG) Eight goals drawn from the UN Millennium Declaration (September 2000) to fight against poverty, illiteracy, hunger, lack of education, gender inequality, child and maternal mortality, disease and environmental degradation by the target date of 2015.
Time-bound and quantified targets for addressing various dimensions of development, adopted by world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000.
An agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives that world leaders agreed on at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. 15 United Nations development goals to be reached by 2015, they are designed to satisfy basic needs globally.
Eight targets that would help meet these basic needs, to ne acheived by 2015, proposed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000.
The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 191 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015.