Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Declaration
In September 2000, 189 nations committed themselves in the United Nations Millennium Declaration to combat poverty and make development a reality for everyone. They acknowledged that progress must focus on the poor, with human rights at the centre. They decided on a set of goals: they called for halving, by the year 2015, the number of people who live on less than one dollar a day, finding solutions to hunger, malnutrition and disease, promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women, guaranteeing a basic education for everyone, and supporting the principles of sustainable development. To help the developing countries achieve this by 2015 the richer countries committed to assisting them in the form of aid, trade, debt relief and investment.

On track to achieve the goals?
To measure the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, the United Nations defined a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for the various Goals. Each year the the United Nations Secretary-General prepares a report on progress achieved towards implementing the Declaration. To download the 2005 report, click here >>

Plan and the Millennium Development Goals
Plan works in 45 of the world's poorest countries - we work with local communities to alleviate the effects of poverty, hunger, diseases and illiteracy. Click on each Millennium Development Goal below to read more about what Plan is doing to tackle the different issues: