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INTERNATIONAL
YEAR OF FRESHWATER
2003
The global challenge: Goals and targets
The Millennium Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for
reducing poverty and improving lives that world leaders agreed
on at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. For each goal one
or more targets have been set, most for 2015, using 1990 as a
benchmark:
Goal 7.
Ensure environmental sustainability
Targets:
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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.
More than
one billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more
than two billion lack sanitation. During the 1990s, however,
nearly one billion people gained access to safe water and the
same number to sanitation.
UNDP, in
collaboration with national governments, is coordinating
reporting by countries on progress towards the UN Millennium
Development Goals. The framework for reporting includes eight
goals -- based on the UN Millennium Declaration. For each goal
there is one or more specific target, along with specific
social, economic and environmental indicators used to track
progress towards the goals.
The eight goals
represent a partnership between the developed countries and the
developing countries determined, as the Millenium Declaration
states, "to create an environment-at the national and global
levels alike-which is conducive to development and the
elimination of poverty."
Support for
reporting at the country level includes close consultation by
UNDP with partners in the UN Development Group, other UN
partners, the World Bank, IMF and OECD and regional groupings
and experts. The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs is
coordinating reporting on progress towards the goals at the
global level.
Monitoring progress
is easier for some targets than for others and good quality data
for some indicators are not yet available for many countries.
This underscores the need to assist countries in building
national capacity in compiling vital data.
Download table of goals and
indicators (PDF)
UN Millennium Declaration
(PDF)
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