United Nations
Development Programme

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Kampala, Uganda

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Email: registry.ug@undp.org

What are the Millennium Development Goals?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) essentially embody the international commitments made at the United Nations World Summits and global conferences throughout the 1990s. They are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration which was adopted by 189 nations and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.

The 8 MDGs break down into 18 quantifiable targets that are measured by 48 indicators.
Click here for a full list of Goals, Targets and Indicators

• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5: Improve maternal health
• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

The MDGs:

• synthesise, in a single package, many of the most important commitments made separately at the international conferences and summits of the 1990s
• recognise explicitly the interdependence between growth, poverty reduction and sustainable development
• acknowledge that development rests on the foundations of democratic governance, the rule of law, respect for human rights and peace and security
• are based on time-bound and measurable targets accompanied by indicators for monitoring progress
• bring together, in the eighth Goal, the responsibilities of developing countries with those of developed countries, founded on a global partnership endorsed at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, and again at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in August 2002

»»Read more about MDG's in Uganda

• 2007 Uganda Millennium Development Goals Progress Report

• 31%of the Ugandan population lives below US$1.00 per person per day
• 20.4% of Ugandan children go to bed hungry
• 84% of Ugandan children are enrolled in primary school
• The average Ugandan woman spends 9 hours a day on care labor activities such as fetching water, firewood and caring for the sick.
• 13.7% of children die before their fifth birthday
• 7.6% of infants die before their first birthday
• For every 100,000 new mothers, 435 die while giving birth
• Only 41% of births are attended by skilled personnel
• 6.4% of the Ugandan population is infected with HIV/AIDS
• 67% of Ugandan households have access to safe water today