The Millennium Development Goals

The overall goal of Alliance2015 is to contribute to reaching
The Millennium Development Goals

In September 2000, the largest ever gathering of national leaders assembled in New York under the auspices of the United Nations.

During this historic three-day summit, they recommitted themselves and their governments to a binding international agreement first signed in 1995. The long-term aim of the agreement is the eradication of global poverty. More immediately, it lays out a number of specific targets, the so-called Millennium Development Goals - the MDGs:

1. To reduce by half the number of people living in absolute poverty, by 2015;
2. To ensure access to primary education for all children, by 2015.
3. To promote gender equality and empower women
4. To reduce by two thirds the number of children that die before their fifth birthday, by 2015;
5. To reduce by three quarters the number of women that die in childbirth, by 2015;
6. To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. To reverse environmental degradation by ensuring countries originate and implement 'green strategies' by 2015
8. To develop a global partnership for development

Why 2015?

A wealthier world will not, of itself, eliminate poverty. We cannot rely solely on economic growth, nor see in the ‚market’ a panacea for all the world’s ills.

The 2015 deadline gives the battle against global poverty a real focus and a sense of urgency. The realisation of a world without poverty by the year 2015 would represent a massive and hugely significant shift away from a world of growing inequality.

A combined and sustained effort is needed if we are to make progress.

A shared political commitment to progress is the driving force behind the formation of Alliance2015