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[Music] In the year 2000, leaders from 189 countries agreed on a vision for the new millennium. They wanted to end extreme poverty in all of its forms, so they made a list of eight goals called the Millennium Development Goals, and they
Overview of the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals by UNDP, highlighting progress and future targets.
Key Takeaways
- The MDGs significantly reduced poverty and improved health and education worldwide.
- Major global challenges remain, necessitating a new, broader set of goals: the SDGs.
- The SDGs integrate social, economic, and environmental dimensions of development.
- UNDP is a central actor in supporting countries to achieve these goals.
- Collective action and innovation are essential to meet the 2030 targets.
What the video covers
- In 2000, 189 countries agreed on eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to end extreme poverty within 15 years.
- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) played a key role in promoting, funding, and tracking progress on the MDGs across 170+ countries.
- Significant progress was made: poverty halved, primary school non-attendance nearly halved, HIV treatment increased 15-fold, and child mortality dropped by almost half.
- Despite progress, challenges remain including over 800 million people living in extreme poverty, widespread hunger, deforestation, ocean acidification, and adult illiteracy, especially among women.
- In 2015, world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to continue and expand the global development agenda through 2030.
- The SDGs emphasize balancing social progress, economic growth, and environmental protection amid climate change and population growth.
- UNDP aims to eradicate extreme poverty, protect the environment, and promote inclusive, sustainable development by 2030.
- UNDP has 50 years of experience supporting countries to achieve prosperity, health, inclusion, and sustainability.
- The video calls for global participation and action to meet these ambitious goals.
- Technology and increased global connectivity provide new opportunities to advance sustainable development.
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wanted to achieve these goals in 15 years. One of the leading organizations working to fulfill these goals has been the United Nations Development Program, or UNDP. We are present in more than 170 countries and territories. We champion
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the goals so that people everywhere would know what they were and how people could do their part. We funded projects that help fulfill the goals. We helped countries accelerate MDG progress by breaking down the silos and working across sectors. We acted as scorekeeper,
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helping countries to track progress. As a result, the number of people that live on less than $1.25 per day has dropped by more than half. The number of primary school-age kids who don't go to school is down by almost half.
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The number of people getting life-saving treatment for HIV increased by over 15 times. Child mortality is down by almost half. As much progress as we have made together, there's still a lot more to do. Over 800 million people are still living
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on less than $1.25 a day. One in nine people on our planet goes to sleep hungry each night. Deforestation remains alarmingly high in many countries. Oceans are becoming more acidic, threatening food security and marine ecosystems. And about one of every six adults in the world is
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illiterate. Two-thirds of them are women. We think those are tough numbers, and so do leaders from the countries where we work. So in September 2015, they agreed on a new set of goals to help finish the work we all started
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in 2000. The new goals are called the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. We have made significant progress in the last 15 years, and we think there's plenty of room for hope and for action in the next 15 years. Today,
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the world is more connected by technology. We know more about how to balance the three pillars of sustainable development: social progress, economic growth, and environmental protection. However, our climate is changing, our planet is transforming, and there are more people
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on Earth than ever before. We at UNDP believe everyone can have enough of what they need, living within our planetary boundaries, and we are working around the world to make this happen. Our goals to reach by 2030 are to eradicate
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extreme poverty, protect our environment, and much more. UNDP has 50 years of experience working with countries to make this a more prosperous, healthy, inclusive, and sustainable world. Join us. [Music]
Topics:Millennium Development GoalsSustainable Development GoalsUnited Nations Development ProgrammeUNDPextreme povertyglobal developmentclimate changesustainabilityinternational cooperation2030 agenda
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