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Millennium Development Goals
A United Nations Perspective
Joseph Foley, C.M.
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Introduction
1.The World We Have
2.The Millennium Development Goals
3.Faces of Poverty
4.Conclusions
5.A hopeful example
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The world we have
The majority of the people alive in the world today find
themselves at the sharp point of the sword of the global
economic system .
Whole communities, even countries, are almost entirely
redundant to the global economy. They have no significant
capital and their labor is unwanted or under-waged.
They have little customer clout because they don’t have
enough spending power to make them attractive ….. except to
money lenders, drug dealers and sellers of weapons.
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The world we have
The world we have is also a world in which
people of faith organize to challenge this
overbearing power.
 These people of faith believe that in the
faces of the poorest, the most powerless, the
most insignificant person they see the image of
God.
 Their challenge, in solidarity with the poor,
takes many forms: they advocate for debt
cancellation, trade justice, human rights,
environmental activism and promoting systemic
change.
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The world we have has been with
us for a long time:
The Prophet Micah warned Israel of old that it
would have to pay for its war crimes.
Their crimes were:
The oppression of the weak by the strong
The expropriation of peasants from their land
The eviction of small holders
The enslavement of children.
None of these crimes have disappeared from
the face of the earth.
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The world we have..new elements…. the food crisis:
 Wheat prices have risen 120%
 Rice prices have risen 75%
 Poor families spend up to 80% of their budget on food. Those
who are struggling to pay for food will eat less or cheaper food
with less nutritional value.
 An estimated 100 million people have fallen into poverty in the
last 2 years
 Prices are expected to stay high through 2015
 21 of 36 countries in a food security crisis are in Sub-Saharan Africa,
according to the United Nations FAO
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The world we have …. causes of the food crisis:
Population growth; greater demand
for animal protein; increased fuel
prices; floods, droughts and disasters;
decrease in food reserves; bans on
exporting food by governments;
speculators, years of underinvestment
in agricultural productivity.
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The world we have …the global
financial crisis:
Coming on the heels of the food and fuel crisis, is the
global financial crisis. This has made life worse for
everyone. Sharply tighter credit, weaker growth, the failure
of banks and businesses are undercutting government
revenues and governments’ ability to invest in order to
meet education, health and gender goals.
Poor countries, like poor people, are hit hardest. Current
estimates suggest that a one percent decline in the growth
rate of a developing country traps an additional 20 million
people into poverty. Already 100 million people have
been driven into poverty as a result of high food and
fuel prices.
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The world we have …
NEVER HAS WORKING TO MEET THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT
BEEN MORE URGENT
“We are at the mid-point of a great
campaign to end world poverty, as set forth
in the Millennium Development Goals
Clearly, we have made a real difference. Yet,
we are falling short of what I know we can do.
This is a sacred cause. The fight against
global poverty and human suffering is a
moral imperative.”
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IN WHAT WAY HAVE YOU FELT THE IMPACT OF THE OIL CRISIS, THE
FOOD CRISIS, OR THE FINANCIAL CRISIS?
(10 minutes)
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Millennium
Development Goals
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Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Over one billion people live on
less than $1 a day. In the
Democratic Republic of Congo,
this boy spends every day
chipping through stones in search
of minerals to sell. For a flour bag
of mineral-rich stones he is paid
as little as 25 cents. His family
and community are dependent on
this industry.
Target: Halve by 2015, the
proportion of people who suffer
from poverty and hunger.
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Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Rowena was three when she started work in the
Philippines, digging through a garbage dump to collect
recyclable materials. She’s never been to school at all.
Target: Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere,
boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full
course of primary schooling.
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Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
At fourteen, Phally was working two jobs while her brothers
went to school. Now, with the help of a small loan and some
training, she runs a successful grocery business in Cambodia;
she not only employs her brothers, but can send her own
daughter to school.
Target: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
secondary education no later than 2015.
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Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
In Afghanistan each year,
283,000 children under the
age of five die. Bismillah is
one of the lucky ones.
Suffering malnourishment
and pneumonia, she was
brought in time to a clinic
where she’s on her way
to recovery.
Target: Reduce by twothirds the under five
mortality rate by 2015.
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Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Around 529,000 women die each year giving birth. 99% are from
developing countries and 80% of deaths are preventable. As a
traditional birth attendant, Emily is fighting to reverse these
statistics, helping with safer deliveries for hundreds of women in
rural Malawi.
Target: Reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality rate
by 2015.
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Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Pedro, Rose and Chembe visit
the grave of their mother who
died from an HIV/AIDS illness.
Their grandfather, 75, now
takes care of them. Over 14
million children have been
orphaned by HIV/AIDS
worldwide.
Target: Have halted by 2015 and
begun to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases.
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Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Every day these children collect water for their family.
They are lucky enough to live near a borehole. The average
distance to travel for water in Africa is 6km, and some children
spend up to six hours per day on this task.
Target: Integrate the principles of
sustainable development into country
policies and programs and reverse the
loss of environmental resources.
Halve by 2015 the proportion of
people without access to safe
drinking water.
By 2015, to have achieved significant improvement in the lives of
at least 100 million slum dwellers.
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Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
In Uganda, Simon sells the
harvest from a few parched
coffee plants that his parents
planted before their death. He
has no access to global
markets or opportunity for a
fair price. For every $1 paid
for tea at a supermarket, less
than 15 cents goes to people
in the country where the tea
was grown.
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Target for MDG 8
• Target 1. Develop further an open, rulebased, predictable, non-discriminatory
trading and financial system – nationally
and internationally.
• Target 2. Deal comprehensively with the
debt problems of developing countries
through national and international
measures in order to make debt
sustainable in the long term.
• Target 3. Address the special needs of
landlocked countries and small island
developing States.
• Target 4. Address the special needs of the
least developed countries.
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Poverty knows no age and no boundaries
Faces of Poverty
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Poverty knows no age and no boundaries
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These goals are about increasing human and
financial security. They are about habitat and
livelihood; about health and education – all of
which reduce the likelihood of war and conflict.
They are about communities making a
transition from non-viable and unsustainable
communities to communities that are selfreliant and sustainable.
They are an important means of realizing
systemic change.
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WOULD ANY OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS RELATE TO
LOCAL NEEDS THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF?
COULD THE SYSTEMIC CHANGE STRATEGIES CONTRIBUTE
SIGNIFICANTLY TO REALIZING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS?
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Three connection points with the MDGs
1. Women:
Women perform a significant amount of the pastoral work in
Christian Churches. Yet, women are disproportionately
affected by poverty. Women make up one half of the world’s
population; do two-thirds of the world’s productive work; own
ten percent of the world’s wealth; and own one percent of the
world’s land.
The achievement of women’s human dignity and
empowerment is a crucial factor in a sustainable future for life
on earth and it is the single most effective way to insure the
well-being of children.
This is recognized in the MDGs.
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Three connection points with the MDGs
2. Migration – a continually evolving situation:
Migration is a planetary and structural phenomenon. It is the result
of unjust development policies at the international level. The
human rights of migrant workers are rarely acknowledged.
 200 million people are on the move all over the globe.
 Forced migration happens when people cannot find productive
work in their home countries because of war, violence, corruption
or insufficient market access.
The number of women who are leaving their country of origin
has become equal to the number of men. Migration is even more
difficult for women!
Many of our communities are migrant sending and/or migrant
receiving communities.
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Three connection points with the MDGs
3. Indigenous People – the world:
At least 350 million people are considered to be indigenous. They are
divided into at least 5,000 peoples, living in 70 countries. But
colonization, industrialization and the desire for the wealth beneath their
lands has taken a dramatic toll:
 by the 1930s, Australia’s indigenous population had declined by
90%.
 The European invasion of the Americas wiped out 90%.
 Brazil’s indigenous population is estimated to have been around 5
million when the Portuguese first arrived. Today it is 350,000.
By almost any measure, the indigenous people, the first people, are the
poorest of the poor.
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Millennium Villages – an encouraging example
Millennium Villages are an innovation approach to eliminating
poverty. Millennium Villages seek to implement several MDGs
simultaneously; and all Millennium Villages address 4 basic
areas: agriculture, health and education, water and sanitation,
and infrastructure.
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Millennium Villages – Malawi
Malawi is one of 90 such villages. In only three years it is
able to report that:
Agricultural production has increased due to subsidized fertilizer,
additional maize seeds and new farming techniques.
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 Farmers producing more than they need just to live. They are
able to sell surplus products and purchase much needed household
goods.
 School feeding programs are now also possible, thus raising
school attendance.
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Millennium Villages – Malawi
In terms of health, there are new treatment programs for
patients with HIV/AIDS. (Some 550 had been placed on
antiretroviral treatment.) This has brought a sense of hope to a
community that had been seriously impacted by the disease.
 De-worming of children has also improved their health
status.
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Millennium Villages – Malawi
 This Millennium Village project is also
making improvements in infrastructure, such
as increasing access to safe water supplies
and building bridges, bridges that provide
vital links to schools and markets.
 New microfinance initiatives had been
established, enabling people to start new
businesses.
 Mobile banking units facilitate personal
savings.
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After only three years, Malawi, like
many of the other Millennium Villages,
can point to a systemic change,
leading to the transformation of life for
people who lived for too long in
dehumanizing poverty.
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2010, our Vincentian Anniversary Celebration
2010 is also the year for the United Nations to review
progress on the MDGs. Progress is now possible only
if local communities, ordinary people who care, come
to know about the Goals, enlist the cooperation of
local governments, engage relevant stakeholders and
begin the work moving from rhetoric to action.
One of the best hopes for the MDGs lies in the hands
of people of faith.
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For more information on Systemic Change or
the Millennium Development Goals, contact,
Joseph Foley, C.M.
Congregation of the Mission
United Nations Office
+ 917-921-34834
[email protected]
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