Following the Millennium Summit in September 2000, all 192 world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration. More than a global effort to encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the poorest countries, the Millennium Declaration launched an ambitious challenge through eight specific goals: they have played a central role for more than ten years now each time someone talks about development, they embody a compromise of a better and more balanced world and a collective effort to make development happen.
The Millennium Development Goals are:
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The MDGs are to be achieved by 2015. Of course this is a very optimistic schedule. However, the most important is to keep pressuring governments all over the world to make things happen. Progress towards MDGs is being monitored. Last September, The Lancet published an analysis (see link below) by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington that evaluate whether MDGs 4 and 5 - reducing child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 and maternal deaths by three-quarters over the same period - can be met. The report says: "Although there is acceleration in many countries, only nine of 137 developing countries are likely to achieve both MDG 4 and MGD5 targets by 2015".
The task is far from being over. After 2015, old strategies shall be rethought and new strategies shall be created in order to enroll all the countries to keep improving its populations lives. It's a everyday work involving governments, international organizations, NGOs and local communities but the hard work has already started. Perhaps most of the difficulties still lay on - funding issues, conflicts, humanitarian problems, hunger and poverty - but the ambition of better conditions for all is not to be forgotten.
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