MDG’s millennial development goals

• Millennium Development Goals


  • Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
  • Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
  • Goal 5: Improve maternal health
  • Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
• Goal 1 Targets


  • Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger
• Goal 2 Targets


  • Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school
• Goal 3 Targets


  • Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
• Goal 4 Targets


  • Reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate among children under five
• Goal 5 Targets


  • Reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women dying in childbirth
• Goal 6 Targets


  • Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
• Goal 7 Targets


  • Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
  • By 2015, reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water
  • By 2020 achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
• Goal 8 Targets


  • Develop further an open trading and financial system that includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction – nationally and internationally
  • Develop decent and productive work for youth
• Ethiopia responded positively to the Millennium Declaration of the 2000
• Ethiopia is on track to achieve six of the eight MDGs—the two exceptions being MDGs 3 and 5
• Poverty line in Ethiopia

  Very close to PPP US$1.25 a day on food and non-food items
• Poverty incidence in Ethiopia

  Declined by 35% between 1996 and 2011
• Despite the decline in the level of poverty, there are still about 22.6 million poor people in 2013/14 who are living under the poverty line and who are unable to satisfy their basic needs
• The severity of poverty increased between 2005 and 2011
• Reducing youth unemployment and gender inequality in employment, especially in urban areas, must be prioritized during the post-MDGs period
• Despite the success in providing children with near universal access to primary education in Ethiopia, the completion rate for both the KS1 (Year 1-4) and KS2 (Year 5-8) primary education did not improve noticeably so as to enable the attainment of the desired target of 100% completion
• The gender gap in primary completion rates, which was very high in the early years, had completely closed by 2014
• Ethiopia is not on track to reach the target of achieving a 1:1 girls to boys ratio, and is thus unlikely to meet Goal 3 by the 2015 deadline
• The slow progress of the Gender Parity Index could be attributed to a number of reasons such as early marriage, violence against girls, abduction, parents' lack of awareness of the benefits of education, distance to school, and a lack of gender sensitive facilities in school
• Child mortality per 1,000 live births has fallen substantially over the past 15 years in Ethiopia
• Under-five mortality per 1,000 live births was estimated to be 166 in 2000 and this had been reduced to 88 by 2011
• Under-five mortality is estimated to have declined further to 60 in 2014, which is below the MDG target of 63, indicating that Ethiopia has achieved it target of reducing child mortality by two thirds ahead of time
• Ethiopia is unlikely to meet Goal 5 (Improve maternal health) by the 2015 deadline
• Maternal mortality rate in Ethiopia

  Declined from 1,400 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 871 in 2013
• The maternal mortality rate in Ethiopia declined significantly, but not high enough to enable it to reach the target of 267 per 100,000 live births in 2015
• Ethiopia has a vision of becoming a middle income and carbon neutral economy by 2025
• Ethiopia has declared the achievement of the MDG target for access to safe drinking water well ahead of 2015
• Ethiopia is also on track to meet the MDG target for access to sanitation facilities
• There is a large gap between the access of rural and urban areas to safe sanitation facilities and safe drinking water in Ethiopia
• Ethiopia enjoys preferential trade access within COMESA (East and Southern Africa trade bloc), as well as to the USA and the EU
• Access to affordable information and communications technology (ICT) in Ethiopia

  Increased considerably, with 27 out of 100 people having mobile phone subscriptions, 0.8 out of 100 people having landline subscriptions, and only 2.3% of the population using the Internet in 2013
• Overall, given increases access to ICT, and increasing trends in ODA in both per capita terms and as a percentage of GNI, as well as the possibility of improved debt sustainability, Ethiopia is on track to meet the MDG of developing a global partnership for development