MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG)
By
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UN General Assembly
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When
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Framed in 2000 (but targets calculation done based
on 1990 levels)
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Deadline
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2015
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MDG
and India
1) Poverty Reduction
2) Hosueholds with water access
3) Gender parity, Universal Primary Education
4) Under 5 Mortality Rate (with some effort)
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5) Maternal Mortality Rate
6) Share of women in non-agri employment
7) Birth attended by skilled personnel
8) Sanitation
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MDG
has 8 goals and 18 targets:
Goal
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Target Description
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Poverty
Hunger
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1)
Reduce BPL population by 50%
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2)
Reduce Hungry People by50%
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Education
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3)
All boys and girls complete primary education
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Gender
Equality
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4)
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education
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Child
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5)
Reduce Child Mortality by two-third
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Mother
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6)
Reduce Maternal Mortality Rate by 75%
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Disease
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7)
Halt HIV / AIDS spread
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8)
Halt Malaria
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Sustainable
Development
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9)
Integrate Sustainable Development into national policies, reverse environment
loss
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10)
Population without access to water-sanitation: Reduce by 50%
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11)
Improve life of at least 10 crore slum dwellers
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Partnership
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12)
Reform Training, financial system, good governance etc
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13)
Needs of LDC countries
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14)
Needs of Small island and land locked countries
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15)
Debt problem of developing countries
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16)
Youth productive work
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17)Affordable
drugs with help of pharma companies
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18)New
ICT technology with help of private companies
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Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG):
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2015:
millennium Development goals will expire.
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Therefore,
under RIO +20 summit, the leaders had decided
to enact new “Sustainable development goals” (SDG)
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UN
general assembly has setup 30 member groups to design SDG.
Proposed focused area under SDG:
1.
poverty eradication
2.
food security and nutrition
3.
health and population dynamics
4.
education
5.
gender equality and women empowerment
6.
water and sanitation
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7.
energy
8.
employment
9.
sustainable cities and human settlements
10.
sustainable production and consumption
11.
means of implementation
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What is Sustainable Development?
Ø “Development which meets the
needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs”.
Ø Brundtland commission on
World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) gave above definition.
What is Rio +20
summit?
Ø 1992: Earth Summit
in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Ø 2012: United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development, in same place.
Ø but since 20 years had lapsed
between two summit, therefore, second summit called “RIO +20”
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