ERD and the Millenium Development Goals
ERD and the Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals provide a blueprint for achieving significant, measurable improvements in people’s lives by the year 2015.

The world's leaders have called on resource-rich nations to give an amount equal to 0.7% of their Gross National Product (GNP) to eliminate poverty and create sustainable development in the developing world. 

The 73rd and 74th General Conventions endorsed the Millennium Development Goals, which focus the world community on eliminating poverty and sustaining long-term development in the poorest countries in the world.

Millennium Development Goals What We Need To Do

Examples

1.  Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Cut in half the number of people who live on less than $1 per day
Cut in half the number of hungry people

Haiti
Philippines

2.  Achieve universal primary education Ensure that boys and girls everywhere are able to complete a full course of primary school Botswana
Sudan
3.  Promote gender equality and empower women Eliminate discrimination against women in education and wages

Afghanistan
South Africa

4.  Reduce child mortality Reduce by two-thirds the number of children who die before age five Dominican Republic
5.  Improve maternal health Reduce by 75% the number of women who die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth Haiti
El Salvador
6.  Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases Stop the spread of these diseases and see a decline the death rates Namibia
Zambia
7.  Ensure environmental stability Cut in half the number of people without access to safe drinking water
Reverse the loss of natural resources by practicing sustainable development		 Tanzania
Nicaragua
8.  Develop a global partnership for development Improve levels of development assistance, provide access to markets, offer solutions for indebted countries Argentina
Venezuela

MDG Main Page  |  Defining our Goals  |  Downloadable Resources  |  Books and Resources  |  MDG Links

How ERD is making a difference...

Countries
We lift communities out of poverty around the world in areas such as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. We partner with local organizations in the Anglican Communion to ensure vulnerable people have healthy food to eat and get proper health care.

Domestic
We provide critical supplies to people through local dioceses after natural and human-made disasters. We partner with the dioceses to get life-saving aid to children and their families and stay with communities after the crisis to provide ongoing support.





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