LAnguage and
Millennium
Millenium
Development Goals
PRESENTED BY CHRISTOPHER G. LOPEZ &
ANNE LOUISE D. ROSANES
What is language?
According to Oxford Languages, it is the principal
method of human communication used by a
particular country or community.
It consists of words used in a structured and
conventional way.
What is millennium development
goals?
The MDG are 8 goals with measurable targets and clear
deadlines for the lives of the poorest people. (MDG FUND)
The UN MDGs are 8 goals that UN Members states have
agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. (WHO: World
Health Organization)
In order to meet these goals, leaders of 189 countries
signed the historic millennium declaration at the United
Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000.
The MDG are derived from this declaration and each
MDG has targets to set for 2015, and several of these
are related directly to health.
Their goal is to combat poverty, hunger, disease,
illiteracy, environmental degradation, and
discrimination against women.
Goal 1: Eradicate
extreme poverty
and hunger
Target A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
proportion of people whose income is less than
$1.25 a day.
Target B: Achieve full and productive
employment and decent work for all, including
women and young people
Target C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
Goal 2: Achieve
Universal Primary
Education
Target: By 2015, all children can complete a full course of primary schooling.
Primary education programs that begin in the mother tongue
help students gain literacy and numeracy skills more quickly.
When taught in their local language, students readily
transfer literacy skills to official languages of education,
acquiring essential tools for life-long learning.
The results are the growth of self esteem and a community
that is better equipped to become literate in languages of
wider communication.
Goal 3: Promote gender
equality & Empower
women
Target: Eliminate gender disparity
in primary and secondary
education, preferably by 2005,
and in all levels of education no
later than 2015.
Globally, about three quarters of working-age men participate in
the labour force, compared to half of working-age women.
Women make up 41 per cent of paid workers outside of
agriculture, an increase from 35 per cent in 1990.
The average proportion of women in parliament has nearly
doubled over the past 20 years.
Women continue to experience significant gaps in terms of
poverty, labour market and wages, as well as participation in
private and public decision-making.
Females representation generally decreases at secondary and
post-secondary levels, but the gender gap has narrowed somewhat
in recent decades.
Goal 4: Reduce
child mortality
Target: reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate of
children under five years old between 1990 and
2015.
The mortality rate for children under five years of age
is reduced when vital health information about
disease prevention and treatment is available in local
languages.
Conversely, poorly understood health information can
lead to dangerous and even fatal misinformation.
Goal 5: Improve
Maternal Health
Target A: Reduce by three
quarters, between 1990 and 2015,
the maternal mortality ratio.
Target B: Achieve, by 2015,
universal access to reproductive
health.
A poor woman in a poorest country is over 100X more likely to die due
to complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
Up to 80% deaths are directly caused by just 5 common obstetric
complications: bleeding, infection, complications of abortion, high bp,
and prolonged or obstructed labour.
Up to 2M children each year are orphaned because their mother has
died.
After years of slow progress, only half of pregnant women receive the
recommended amount of antenatal care.
Mothers not receiving skilled and emergency care during their labour if
complications occur
Goal 6: Combat
HIV/AIDS, malaria, and
other diesases
Target A: have halted and begun to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS by 2015.
HIV is prevalent within the population of
people aged 15-24 years old.
People from this age group are
encouraged to use condoms when
engaging in sexual intercourse.
Comprehensive and correct information
on HIV/AIDS must be disseminated to
people from this age group.
target b: achieve universal target c: have halted and begun
access to treatment for to reverse the spread of malaria
HIV/AIDS to those who need it and other major diseases by
by the year 2010. 2015.
People from marginalized
People diagnosed with communities are vulnerable
HIV/AIDS must have access to to diarrhea, malaria,
anti-retroviral drugs that are tuberculosis, and other
prescribed to them. common diseases when
they lack the resources and
capability to obtain
essential health knowledge.
GOAL 7: ENSURE
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
Target A: Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into country policies and programmes and
reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Target B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a
significant reduction in the rate of loss.
Target C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population
without sustainable access to safe drinking water and
basic sanitation.
Target D: Achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in
the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
Goal 8: develop a global
partnership for
development
Target A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable,
non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Good governance,
development, and poverty
reduction in both national
and international contexts
is encouraged.
Target B: Address the special needs of the least developed
countries (LDCs)
Tariff and quota-free access for LDC exports; enhanced program of
debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of bilateral debt, and more
generous ODA (Official Development Assistance) for countries
committed to poverty reduction
Target C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing
countries and small island developing states
through the programme of action for
the sustainable development of Small
Island Developing States and the
outcome of the twenty-second special
session of the General Assembly
Target D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of
developing countries through national and international
measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
below are the listed indicators that are monitored separately for the LDCs, Africa,
landlocked developing countries, and small island developing states:
1. Official Development Assistance (ODA):
Net ODA, both overall and specifically to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), as a percentage of
Gross National Income (GNI) for OECD/DAC donors.
Percentage of total sector-allocable ODA from OECD/DAC donors allocated to basic social services
like basic education, primary healthcare, nutrition, safe water, and sanitation.
Proportion of bilateral ODA from OECD/DAC donors that is untied.
ODA received by landlocked countries and small island developing states as a proportion of their
GNIs.
2. Market Access:
Proportion of total imports by value (excluding arms) from developing countries and LDCs
admitted free of duty in developed countries.
Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products, textiles, and clothing
from developing countries.
Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as a percentage of their GDP.
Proportion of ODA aimed at building trade capacity.
3. Debt Sustainability:
Total number of countries with sustainable access to affordable essential drugs.
Target E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing
countries
Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on
a sustainable basis
Target F: In cooperation with the private sector, make
available the benefits of new technologies, especially
information and communications.
Telephone lines and cellular
subscribers per 100 population
Personal computers in use per 100
population
Internet population per 100
population
Thank
you
