Mil len niu m De ve lop me nt Go al Ca rd s » Resource 3r3 Goal » 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal » 2 Achieve universal primary education
By improving poor people’s incomes; raising employment for all; and reducing hunger.
By making sure all girls and boys are able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
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Goal » 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
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Goal » 4 Reduce child mortality rate
By reducing the differences between the access of men and women to education, employment and roles of political power.
By reducing the under-five mortality rate (how many children die before the age of five).
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Goal » 5 Improve maternal health
Goal » 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
By reducing the maternal mortality ratio (how many women die during childbirth); and improving access to reproductive health (e.g. contraceptives, family planning and medical care).
By reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS; improving access to HIV/AIDS treatments and drugs; and reversing the spread of malaria and other major diseases.
Goal » 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal » 8 Develop a global partnership for development
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By putting sustainability into government policies; reducing the loss of biodiversity (plants and animals); improving access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation; and improving the lives of slum-dwellers.
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By developing good systems for global trading, and poverty and debt reduction; addressing the special needs of the poorest countries and small island states; working with private companies to improve access to affordable and essential medicines and new technologies such as mobile telephones, computers and the internet. 8
Your Task » Try to get the Millennium Development Goals Funding Board to give you funding for your proposed programme or project. You will have one minute and thirty seconds only to present to the board. Your presentation should include the following aspects: » The three Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) you have chosen. » How your three chosen MDGs are linked together and how they might help to reduce global inequalities. »A programme or project you would start up that would contribute to at least two out of your three chosen goals if you were given the funding. »H ow many people your programme might reach across the Commonwealth (which has around 2 billion people in it), how much it might cost per person, and the approximate total cost of your project or programme. Once you have decided on your goals and programme / project idea, it might be useful to divide your group into subgroups to prepare and present the four different elements listed above. RESOURCE 3r3 PAGE 1 OF 1 © Royal Commonwealth Society | www.thercs.org/youth
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