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UN GOALS FOR THE MILLENIUM |
| AMKA wants its activities
to be part of a total context of development. For this reason, in
defining priorities of action, we make reference to Millenium
Goals, UN objectives for the Millenium as dediced by 147
Heads of State and Government and 191 Nations in New York in September,
2000 for the
Millenium Summit. |
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Millenium Goals, indicated as
objectives to realize within 2015, in order to fight poverty
and to realize sustainable development, are:
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTION
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| 1. |
Eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger |
- Reduce by half the proportion
of people living on less than a dollar a day;
- Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from
hunger |
| 2. |
Achieve universal primary education |
- Ensure that all boys and girls
complete a full course of primary schooling |
| 3. |
Promote
gender equality and empower women |
- Eliminate gender disparity in
primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at
all levels by 2015 |
| 4. |
Reduce child mortality |
- Reduce by two thirds the mortality
rate among children under five |
| 5. |
Improve
maternal health |
- Reduce by three quarters the
maternal mortality ratio |
| 6. |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and
other diseases |
- Halt and begin to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS;
- Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other
major diseases |
| 7. |
Ensure environmental
sustainability |
- Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into country policies and programmes; reverse
loss of environmental resources;
- Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water
- Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100
million slum dwellers, by 2020 |
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Develop a global partnership
for development |
- Develop further an open trading
and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory.
Includes a commitment to good governance, development and
poverty reduction - nationally and internationally;
- Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This
includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports;
enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries;
cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous
official development assistance for countries committed to
poverty reduction;
- Address the special needs of landlocked and small island
developing States;
- Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems
through national and international measures to make debt sustainable
in the long term;
- In cooperation with the developing countries, 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 |
Verify here in which conditions
is DRC regarding the possibility to catch up UN Millenium
Goals objectives and how AMKA operates
regarding these objectives.
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