In May 2005 the Government of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Report on the Realization of Millennium Development Goals in Serbia. The Report was prepared by the Working Group of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for Monitoring the Realization of MDGs, with the support from UNDP. The Report will be presented at the regular yearly UN conference in September 2005.
At the Millennium Summit held in New York in 2000, leaders from 189 UN member countries adopted the Millennium Declaration which identified the basic values on which international relations in the 21st century should be based: freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for the nature, responsibility sharing.
In September 2001, UN Secretary General promoted the Millennium Development Goals within his report titled «Guidelines for the implementation of the UN Millennium Declaration», along with adequate indicators and tasks that every UN member country is supposed to achieve by 2015. The Millennium Declaration suggests underdeveloped countries and developing countries which face the problems of poverty and exclusion of particularly vulnerable groups, ie. regions, to adopt and implement national development strategies which aim at achieving the identified Millennium Development Goals.
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day in 1990-2015
- Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger in 1990-2015
2.Achieve universal primary education
- By 2015 Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
3.Promote gender equality and empower women
- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
4.Reduce child mortality
- Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five in 1990-2015
5. Improve maternal health
- Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio in 1990-2015
6.Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- By 2015 halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
- By 2015 halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
7.Ensure environmental sustainability
- Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
- Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015
- Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
8. Develop a global partnership for development
- Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
- Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
- Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
- Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
- In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
- In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
http://www.un.org.yu/srp/mdgs.htm
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
http://www.undp.org/mdg/
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