Kwame
Otti, BA (Hons)
Staff of Placements and Field Projects
In line with the Millennium Development
Goals
Develop 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.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat hiv/aids, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development
Integrate the principles of sustainable development
into country policies and programmes and reverse the
loss of environmental resources.
Develop further an open trading and financial system
that includes a commitment to good governance, development
and poverty reduction -nationally and internationally.
Address the least developed countries' special needs,
and the special needs of landlocked and small island
developing states.
Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt
problems.
Targets
Target for 2015: halve the proportion of people living
on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from
hunger.
Target for 2015: ensure that all boys and girls complete
primary school.
Targets for 2005 and 2015: eliminate gender disparities
in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005
and at all levels by 2015.
Target for 2015: reduce by two thirds the mortality
rate among children under five.
Target for 2015:reduce by three quarters the ratio
of women dying in childbirth.
Target for 2015: halt and begin to reverse the spread
of hiv/aids and the incidence of malaria and other
major diseases.
By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without
access to safe drinking water.
By 2020, achieve significant improvement in the lives
of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
