What is Millennium development goals / 2030 agenda for sustainable development. - Meaning and definition

Published by Roberto Wenk. Reviewed by Alison Ramsey. Last updated date: January 11, 2019.

In September 2000, representatives from 189 countries (and 147 Heads of State) met at the Millennium Summit in New York to adopt the Millennium Declaration.
The Declaration set out principles and values that should govern international relations in the 21st century and identified 7 areas in which national leaders made a series of specific commitments: peace, security, and disarmament; development and poverty eradication; protecting our common environment; human rights, democracy, and good governance; protecting the vulnerable; meeting the special needs of Africa; and strengthening the United Nations.

The Millennium Development Goals relate to the section of the Millennium Declaration dealing with development and poverty eradication and summarize some of the key commitments made at the major United Nations conferences of the 1990s.

Within the Declaration, 4 of the 8 goals, 8 of the 16 targets and 17 of the 48 indicators are health-related.

World Health Organization. Programmes and projects. Trade, foreign policy, diplomacy and health. Glossary of terms. 29, 2010.

Published by Roberto Wenk. Reviewed by Alison Ramsey. Last updated date: January 11, 2019.

Voices around the world are demanding leadership on poverty, inequality, and climate change. To turn these demands into actions, world leaders gathered on September 25, 2015 at the United Nations in New York to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It comprises 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or Global Goals, that will guide policy and funding for the next 15 years, beginning with a historic pledge to end poverty.
The objective was to produce a set of universally applicable goals that balances the 3 dimensions of sustainable development: environmental, social, and economic.

The SDGs replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which in September 2000 rallied the world around a common 15-year agenda to tackle the indignity of poverty.

The MDGs established measurable, universally-agreed objectives for eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, preventing deadly but treatable disease, and expanding educational opportunities to all children, among other development imperatives. They drove progress in several important areas, including:
- income poverty,
- access to improved sources of water,
- primary school enrolment, and
- child mortality.

The United Nations Development Programme. A new sustainable development agenda. Internet. Accessed on July 1, 2016.

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