MDGs and SDGs

• What are the UNMDG?

  • Read through and highlight the 8 MDGs so that you know what they are and what they involved (page 51-54 of the revision guide)
• UNMDG

  United Nations Millennium Development Goals
• What were the impacts of two of the 8 goals?

  1. Goal 1: Extreme poverty (less than $1.25 per day) dropped from over 50% to 14% by 2015

  2. More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty

  3. The number of people living on more than $4 per day tripled to 50% of the workforce in 2015

  4. Undernourished people fell from 23.3% to 12.9% (1990 to 2015)

  5. But this is still 795 million people, more than the number of people in Europe

  6. 2015 figure on extreme poverty is still 300 million people

  7. People still living in extreme poverty, 41% of people in SSA

  8. 90 million of the undernourished are children under 5, half of the world's underweight children live in S. Asia and 1/3 live in SSA
• What were the impacts of two of the 8 goals?

  1. Goal 2: Enrolment went up from 83% to 91% (2000 to 2015), literacy rate went up by the same number

  2. Sub Saharan Africa showed the greatest increase (up 20%)

  3. Literacy rates increased globally among 15-24 year olds 83% in 1990 to 91% in 2015

  4. The target to eliminate gender disparity in PS has been achieved in 2/3 of LEDCs

  5. But the poorest households in LEDCs are still 4 times more likely to be out of school than the richer households

  6. Female literacy rates are generally 10% lower than male rates with the greatest disparities occurring in the Arab states, South and SE Asia and SSA
• What were the impacts of two of the 8 goals?

  1. Goal 3: Now more girls in education than 15 years ago

  2. South Asia in 1990 - 74 girls to 100 boys enrolled in primary school, by 2015 this was 103:100

  3. Women now make up 41% of paid workers outside of agriculture

  4. Proportion of women in vulnerable employment declined by 13% between 1990 and 2015

  5. But still significant gaps in terms of poverty, labour market and wages exist, as well as participation in decision making in the public sector
• Goal and description

  • Positives
  • Negatives
• Goal 1: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2: achieve universal primary education
• Overall impacts
• Assess the extent to which progress has been made in relation to extreme poverty and hunger in East Asian countries (EAPs) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
• What are the 5 main areas that the Sustainable Development Goals try to address?

  • People
  • Peace
  • Prosperity
  • Planet
  • Partnership
• The Sustainable Development Goals
• The aims of Agenda 2030 (SDGs)

  • To complete the work set out in the MDGs programme
  • To safeguard human rights and gender equality
  • To implement policies that will promote sustainable development
  • To stimulate action in areas of importance for people and the planet, prosperity, peace and partnership
• To complete the work set out in the MDGs programme

  Emphasis on places where these targets were not achieved, examples include poverty reduction, hunger, maternal health care, secondary education and unemployment, there were considerable regional variations in the success of the MDGs (80% of the world's extremely poor people are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia), the MDGs aimed to halve the number living in poverty - Agenda 2030 aims to eliminate it completely
• To safeguard human rights and gender equality

  All individuals should have access to education, legal protection and freedom from discrimination, human rights were not part of the MDGs programme and this was seen as a weakness, emphasis on the role of women in many LEDCs
• To implement policies that will promote sustainable development

  Development must incorporate economic, social and environmental considerations, particularly concerning the use of resources, notable examples include issues surrounding climate change and reducing greenhouse gases
• To stimulate action in areas of importance for people and the planet, prosperity, peace and partnership


  This broad aim directs action towards global partnership in areas such as employment creation, inequality in wealth, planning for climate change, sustainable use of oceans and freshwater supplies, also focuses on conflict resolution and justice for all
• How do they differ from the MDGs?
• Similarities between MDGs and SDGs

  • Built on the success of the MDGs and aim to achieve what the MDGs did not
  • Similarities in what the goals are working towards e.g. poverty, education, gender equality, improvements to health, environmental sustainability, global partnership
• Differences between MDGs and SDGs

  • Much wider scope, e.g. 1 goal to ensure environmental sustainability within the MDGs, while there are 9 SDGs that contain an environmental aspect
  • More ambitious and there are more of them
  • The SDGs apply to all countries while the MDGs focused on LEDCs
  • Strong focus on how the goals will be implemented and there is a wider discussion about the mobilisation of financial resources, capacity building and technology in order to achieve the goals
  • Global partnership rather than top-down approach and delivery through aid
• BBC article 2015
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